“It’s a story of Japanese Americans, but it speaks to anyone who is a part of an immigrant family or has been touched by the immigrant experience," show-runner Alexander Woo said.
The president's’s supposed concern fits neatly into a pattern of weaponizing crime in Europe, especially involving immigrants, for domestic political gain.
Video shows an interaction between ICE officers and the co-founder of an immigrant rights organization in which the man prevents the officers from making an arrest with “know your rights” training. The ICE officers, while attempting to make an arrest in Hudson, New York, present a “warrant of arrest of alien,” but the man insists the document was not a court ordered warrant signed by a judge, and refuses to comply.
Central American migrants traveled in caravans for thousands of miles to Tijuana in the hope of presenting their asylum case at the U.S. port of entry. While U.S. and international law protects asylum seekers from being turned back at the border, Customs and Border Protections says they don’t have the capacity to handle such large numbers, leaving migrants stranded in Mexico.
Actress America Ferrera and a group of actors and activists have spoken out against the Trump administration policy requiring migrants seeking asylum in the United States to have to wait in Mexico instead.
The actress led a group including Gina Rodríguez, Eva Longoria, Kerry Washington, Kendrick Sampson and Roselyn Sánchez to a shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, across the border from San Diego.
An agonizing eight months after Vilma Carrillo was separated from her daughter and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, she received the news she had been constantly praying for.
Carrillo, from Guatemala, was told she would be flown from a Georgia detention center to Phoenix, where she held and kissed her 12-year-old daughter, Yeisvi, last week after nearly 250 days apart. The two embraced, Yeisvi wearing a pink backpack with Disney princesses on it that read “We Can Do ANYTHING.”
Houses and structures on either side of the border fence separating Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego are seen from above.
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In just five days, Diego and Lizandro Claros Saravia went from being promising soccer players with college aspirations to deportees sent to one of the most dangerous countries on earth.
On Aug. 2, 2017 — despite a campaign by their family, coaches and teammates in suburban Maryland, where they'd attended high school — the brothers were put on a plane back to El Salvador, saying goodbye to the place they had called home for nearly a decade.
After Lizandro and Diego were detained by immigration authorities, Fátima, left, and Jonathan Claros Saravia, their older siblings, spearheaded a campaign to try to save them from deportation
The brothers' case is just one example of the Trump administration's policy of deporting immigrants who have not committed a crime after arriving in the U.S. Other recent cases of people detained by ICE include a pizza delivery man and father to two young girls; a man who called police for help; and a Michigan father who had lived in the U.S. for three decades.
Diego, right, and Lizandro Claros Saravia, grew up in El Salvador before coming to the U.S. when they were 14 and 11.
The brothers have received support from Maryland Democrats, including Rep. John Delaney and Sen. Chris Van Hollen, but it's unclear that anything can be done to bring them back to the U.S. soon unless immigration laws change.
In the meantime, Diego and Lizandro are still adjusting to their new lives thousands of miles away from their parents in Maryland.
“Maybe our dreams didn’t end, but I like to be realistic and think about where I am,” Lizandro said. “And there’s no American dream unless I’m in the United States.”
A 20-foot-tall inflatable orange baby with the face of President Donald Trump will float over Britain’s parliament next week, one of many acts of protest planned to coincide with Trump's first visit to the U.K. since taking office.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators are expected to march in London, Scotland and elsewhere during his trip, which takes place amid a growing transatlantic trade war and global dismay at the treatment of immigrant families at the U.S. border.
“Moral outrage has no affect on Trump because he has no shame, he’s immune to it. But he has a tremendously fragile ego so ridicule is an effective form of protest," said Leo Murray, the organizer who received permission to fly the helium-filled blimp of Trump as a baby during the visit.
Permission for the blimp came from London Mayor Sadiq Khan's Greater London Authority. Khan is among a series of high-profile British figures to have publicly clashed with Trump over everything from immigration to health care.
“Why don’t you leave my husband alone?”
Transportation Sec. Elaine Chao comes to the defense of her husband, Sen. Mitch McConnell, as a group of protesters confront them about family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Beata Mariana de Jesus Mejia-Mejia was reunited with her son early Friday, after suing the federal government to find his location and release the child after they were separated at the border. Beata and her 7-year-old son, Darwin, traveled from Guatemala seeking political asylum.
Mejia-Mejia and her son crossed the border on May 19 near San Luis, Arizona, and the two were detained by Border Patrol agents. Two days later, her son was taken from her, the lawsuit said.
Beata and Darwin were reunited around 2:30 a.m. on June 22 at Baltimore-Washington International Airport in Maryland. She cried and wrapped the boy in a blanket, hugging him close and saying "I love you so much" in Spanish.
On the US House floor, Rep. Lieu plays audio of children at detention facilities, despite being ruled out of order by the chair: "Why are we hiding this from the American people?"
A migrant mother and child separated after crossing the U.S. border were finally reunited on Friday after spending a month apart.
First Lady Melania Trump wore a jacket with the phrase “I really don’t care, do u?” scrawled across the back on her way to visit migrant children housed in a Texas shelter on Thursday. While the jacket did not make an appearance in Texas, the First Lady wore it again when she arrived back in Washington D.C.
President Trump later tweeted about the jacket, saying the message “refers to the Fake News Media. Melania has learned how dishonest they are, and she truly no longer cares!”
Protesters with children wrapped in thermal blankets staged a sit-in at the Russell Rotunda on Capitol Hill.
The protesters called on the Trump administration to reunite migrant children with their parents and end the “zero tolerance” prosecution policy.
First lady Melania Trump arrived in McAllen, Texas on Thursday to visit the border area amid the administration's crisis over the separation of families, her office said.