Melania Returns To U.S.-Mexico Border Amid Separation Outcry
Melania Trump returned to the Mexican border Thursday to meet face-to-face with those dealing with her husband's hardline immigration policies firsthand.
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Melania Trump returned to the Mexican border Thursday to meet face-to-face with those dealing with her husband's hardline immigration policies firsthand.
For days and weeks now, some of the hundreds of parents separated from their children at the Mexican border by the Trump administration have been battling one of the world's most complex immigration systems.
The state of Texas has about 1,250 miles of border with Mexico and has become ground zero for questions about whether the White House's immigration crackdown has gone too far.
The request seeks 2,000 beds to be up and running in the next 45 days, and the remaining space to be available on an as-needed basis, the Defense Department said in a statement.
Muslim individuals and groups, as well as other religious and civil rights organizations, expressed outrage and disappointment at the high court's rejection of a challenge claiming the policy discriminates.
A judge in California on Tuesday ordered U.S. border authorities to reunite separated families within 30 days, setting a hard deadline in a process that has so far yielded uncertainty.
The first lady's spokeswoman declined to release any details about the trip, including where or when she plans to go.
Customs and Border Protection allowed news media organizations to tour the 77,000-square-foot immigrant detention facility in McAllen, Texas on the condition that no photos or video be taken.
Apple CEO Tim Cook intends to continue lambasting U.S. immigration policies and other issues that trouble him to avoid falling into an "appalling silence."
Foster care advocates say the government won't likely be able to reunite thousands of children separated from parents who crossed the border illegally.
Five parents out of a group of more than 30 who were recently released from federal custody pending the outcome of their immigration and asylum cases shared their stories during a news conference in El Paso.
U.S. defense officials said that the Trump administration has chosen two military bases in Texas -- Fort Bliss and Goodfellow Air Force Base -- to house detained migrants.
A charitable organization in Texas said that 32 immigrant parents who were separated from their children after crossing the border were freed into its care.
All those asylum cases in DFW will be heard at the Earl Cabell Federal Building in Dallas. Immigration experts say this courthouse is one the toughest in the country to be granted asylum.
Both senators went to the Texas-Mexico border Friday to hold a roundtable discussion with immigration officials, religious and community leaders.
Lured by the promise of jobs and opportunities, or escape from persecution, immigrants from around the world are eager to come to America. But, getting here -- legal or not -- is no easy task.
Screen shots included comments such as, "I'm telling you build a wall, and the us govt. can sell permits for legal hunting on the border and we can make a sport of this..."
Immigration enforcement on the U.S.-Mexico border was plunged deeper into chaos over President Donald Trump's reversal of a policy separating immigrant children from parents.
The Pentagon will make space available on military bases for as many as 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children detained after illegally crossing into the U.S.
Even as many religious organizations denounced the Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant families, some "pro-family" groups declined to join in the criticism.
Federal agencies were working to set up a centralized reunification process for the remaining separated children and their families at the Port Isabel Detention Center just north of border in Texas.
Thursday night, people packed University Christian Church near TCU for a night of prayers for immigrant children who have been separated from their families.
The immigration crisis at the Texas-Mexico border is hitting home for a Dallas man.
First lady Melania Trump boarded a flight to a facility housing migrant children separated from their parents wearing a jacket that read "I really don't care, do u?"
A civil rights group attorney says federal prosecutors unexpectedly dropped misdemeanor charges against 17 adult immigrants who crossed the border with children.
