Senior Program Director for CAIR Coalition's Detained Children's Program, Nithya Nathan-Pineau, talks with ThinkProgress about secure detention facilities where unaccompanied migrant children are being held.
Today the President signed an Executive Order purporting to correct the family separation crisis that his administration created. Here are the five main reasons that the Executive Order is flawed and has the potential to create even more harm for families and children:
In a troubling decision, the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) decided Matter of A-C-M- (link) and found that a Salvadoran woman who was enslaved by guerrilla forces provided material support to the organization in the form of cooking, cleaning, and washing their clothes.
Senior Program Director for CAIR Coalition's Detained Children's Program, Nithya Nathan-Pineau, talks with Vox about how the Trump administration is using undocumented kids' confidential health information to lock them up.
In a tremendous legal victory for immigrants’ rights, today the U.S Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled in the published decision Leyva Martinez v.
There are around thousands of immigrants around the country going through deportation proceedings. The immigration laws of the U.S. are notoriously complicated; the immigration process is hard to understand. Unfortunately, because immigration proceedings are considered civil, unlike criminal proceedings, immigrants are not afforded the right to a free attorney. Consequently, the American Bar Association reported in 2016 that only about 32% of immigrants are represented by legal counsel, which puts the immigrants at a huge disadvantage.
