Beyond the Border: Restrictions on immigrant visas, a detained Indigenous elder and lawyers helping children
Here's what happened this week in immigration news.
Written by Jenna Ramiscal, Edited by Kate Morrissey
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Unaccompanied minors
KJZZ reported that The Florence Project is choosing to continue representing unaccompanied minors without payment after the federal government stopped funding its work when it refused to turn over confidential information about child clients.
The Trump administration awarded Our Rescue, a controversial anti-human trafficking organization, a $158 million contract to provide legal services to unaccompanied minors, NPR reported. It's unclear if the organization employs any immigration lawyers.
A 16-year-old girl whom ICE detained with her friend told members of Congress that ICE used her to lure her father to pick her up and then sent both of them to Dilley Immigrant Processing Center, The San Antonio Express News reported.
ICE arrests
The Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting reported that ICE has continued to detain at least 120 immigrants in Arizona after judges granted them protection from deportation to their home countries.The administration is trying to send them to third countries.
The Guardian profiled a man originally from Saudi Arabia whom ICE detained when he was dropping off two Lyft passengers at Camp Pendleton. Since his release, the man has opened a coffee shop in Oceanside.
Houston Public Media reported that ICE arrested a 5-year-old boy and his father while they were on the way to an Austin soccer game. The pair chose to return to Mexico in order to not risk being separated.
ICE has detained professional soccer player Homero Calderón for five months, NPR reported. He had two pending visa applications stuck in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services backlog when ICE arrested him.
CNN posted a video on Instagram that shows ICE detaining an Ecuadorian mother and daughter in a hospital after a car crash.
After immigration officials arrested a man, he suffered a brain injury and severe bruising on his face, The Guardian reported.
Maxochitl Cortez reported in a video on Instagram that ICE has detained Adalberto Zanes, an Indigenous elder who lived in the Corpus Christi community in Texas.
The Guardian reported that ICE detained the father of a U.S. Navy sailor who is on a nine-month deployment to the Middle East.
Protestors gathered after immigration officials crashed into a truck on the freeway to detain the driver, the Chicago Tribune reported.
ICE facilities
La Resistencia posted a video on Instagram that says over 140 people in Northwest ICE Processing Center are on hunger strike because of food, medical and hygienic complaints.
Google has deleted bad reviews of ICE facilities, The Intercept reported.
The Department of Homeland Security is contracting a new ICE facility in the Nashville area that would cost around $63 million, WSMV4 reported.
NPR reported that the grievance system, a way to for people in custody to make official complaints about ICE and private prison contractors, is barely operating and sometimes backfires on individuals trying to make reports.
Federal court updates
After a federal judge sided with the Trump administration in a case about its decision to end temporary protected status for people from Myanmar, around 1,200 Minnesotans lost their protected status, Sahan Journal reported.
The Seattle Times reported that a federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to return a man who was deported after helping U.S. authorities by testifying against Mexican drug cartels.
Other news
L.A. Taco put together a guide of what to do if a federal agency kills someone you know.
Forbes reported that the Trump administration is restricting all immigration categories, including visas sponsored by family members or employers, refugees and diversity visas.
The Texas Observer reported that ICE has instilled fear into the families that live in South Texas in the Rio Grande Valley. Many are adjusting their work hours to avoid ICE activity.
Los Angeles Public Press reported that immigration courts are not providing interpretation in Indigenous languages to Latin American immigrants who speak limited Spanish. U.S. law requires that immigration courts provide interpretation in the immigrant's preferred language.
An Oceanside man was shot and killed in Tijuana months after ICE deported him, ABC10 reported.
The Padres little league coach, whom ICE detained over a week ago, has been released on bond, Padres Mission reported.
Masta Quba, Rocky Rivera and Bobby Sanchez released a song and music video called “FVCK BORDERS.”
Thanks for reading! Take care and stay well.
— Jenna
