The Washington Post reported that a document was distributed to ICE staff indicating the agency was drafting a letter to potentially terminate the facility’s $1.2 billion contract.
Immigration
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From DACA recipient to New Mexico Senate, Cindy Nava charted her own path
“Growing up being undocumented shaped my entire life: Everything that I am, everything that I do was shaped by that,” she said.
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Immigrant families in Texas have gone into hiding after latest Trump administration policy
Sara had been preparing for a radio interview earlier this month to promote her plans to open an at-home child care center in Central Texas when she learned that a new federal immigration order rendered her ineligible for legal status. Sara, an undocumented Venezuelan who applied for asylum earlier this year, canceled the interview and […]
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‘An open graveyard’: Skeletal remains lie unrecovered in New Mexico’s borderlands
SANTA TERESA — The rosary hung from a branch of mesquite, its light blue beads swaying in the breeze. The site was a few miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. It wasn’t far from paved roads, a truck stop, the city of El Paso. But amid the sand and shrubs — all of them too short, […]
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“Some of them fell to their knees”
A Navajo citizen describes being questioned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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Donald Trump’s victory puts all eyes back on the border
The candidate who depicted immigrants as dangerous criminals just won with an impressive electoral mandate. Will he follow through on the aggressive policies he sold to voters?
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On the southern border, a brief moment of reunion
Families from the U.S. and Mexico gathered on a makeshift bridge across the Rio Grande
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Vida, muerte o deportación
Inmigrantes indocumentados se enfrentan a una decisión dolorosa si necesitan asistencia médica: ¿Deberían arriesgarse al puesto de control migratorio?
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Life, death or deportation
Undocumented immigrants face an excruciating choice if they need medical help: Should they risk the highway checkpoint?
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‘Inhumane’ New Mexico facility will resume locking up migrants
Despite the federal government’s own warning, the federal government plans to lock up more migrants in an ‘egregious’ facility.