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There are close to 40 percent more people in immigration detention now than when President Joe Biden took office, even though his administration is turning away migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border and warning them not to come to the U.S. But research shows threatening migrants with detention and deportation doesn’t deter them from crossing the border, especially if they’re victims of violence and looking to escape from their home countries. Emily Ryo, a professor of law and sociology at the ...

Newsroom Navigation Outside 26 Federal Plaza, the site of one of New York Citys three immigration courts. Max Siegelbaum for Documented Human Rights Groups Demand End to Digital Surveillance of Immigrants Plus: Californias governor pardons firefighters facing deportation, a loophole may expose Chicago immigrants information, and more. Human rights groups are calling on the Biden administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to halt a digital surveillance program that follows cl...

Plus: New York City immigrant parents demand diverse school curriculum, and backlog grows as immigration courts stay closed.

Plus: Immigrant farmworkers dissect discriminatory practices, Minnesota teacher honored for understanding immigrant students, and more.

New York City Trying to Improve Latinos’ Low COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Plus: Tax documents are keeping undocumented workers from relief funds, bill would end ICE contracts with local governments, and more. When Myrna Lazcano, a community activist from Mexico who lives in East Harlem, got COVID-19, her symptoms dragged on for months. This long-haul illness drove Lazcano to get the COVID-19 vaccine and to share her experience to encourage other Latinos to get it as well. Latinos have been twic...

Plus: Harris counts on Guatemala to partner on migration reform, and advocates want to provide free legal representation to immigrants.

Migrant Parents Feel Forced to Send Children Across the Border Alone Many migrants are sending their children to the U.S. alone because those with older children are being rapidly expelled. Marely traveled for 13 days with her mother from El Salvador toward the U.S.-Mexico border. But once they made it to a raft to cross the Rio Grande, the 12-year-old found out her mother wasn’t coming with her. Marely had to then turn herself in to Border Patrol agents in La Joya, Texas. Her mother is among...

Newsroom Navigation Central American migrants crossing the Suchiate River between the Guatemalan and Mexican border. Photo: Oliver de Ros Human Smuggling Targeted in New White House Operation Human smugglers have tried to convince Central Americans that crossing the border is safe as the White House discourages crossings. The Biden administration announced an operation Tuesday that will concentrate on disrupting criminal organizations, which includes human smugglers who falsified informa...

Migrant Boy Found Wandering Alone Was Deported and Kidnapped A young boy whose video was shared widely online was kidnapped and separated from his mother when his family couldnt pay for her release. Wilton Obregon and his mother Meylin, Nicaragua natives, crossed the border to Texas last month to seek asylum. But despite the Biden administration’s insistence that a public health order allowing rapid expulsions wouldn’t apply to children, the 10-year-old and his mother were dismissed to Mexi...

Newsroom Navigation Central American migrants crossing the Suchiate River between the Guatemalan and Mexican border. Photo: Oliver de Ros Biden Administration Hesitant on Message for Migrants The administration is struggling to communicate a promising message to migrants while also urging them to not cross the U.S.-Mexico border. President Joe Biden’s coordinator for the southern border, Ambassador Roberta Jacobson, recognized the administration is struggling to communicate a promising...