At the Texas border, these students help asylum-seekers make their case
Firsthand accounts from legal aid providers at the Texas border highlight the obstacles asylum seekers encounter in court.
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Firsthand accounts from legal aid providers at the Texas border highlight the obstacles asylum seekers encounter in court.
Pandemic-era limits on asylum known as Title 42 have been rarely discussed among many of tens of thousands of migrants massed on Mexico's border with the United States.
What will take the place of Title 42, advocates say, will still be an asylum ban, even if it’s not being named outright.
The administration once promised to close privately run immigrant detention centers. Instead, it’s packing them full.
In October, Yibran Ramirez-Cecena didn't alert the staff at Stewart Detention Center to his cough and runny nose. Ramirez-Cecena, who had been detained at the immigration detention facility in southwestern Georgia since May, hid his symptoms, afraid he would be put in solitary confinement if he tested positive for COVID-19.