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ACLU Demands Courts Protect Refugees Fleeing Domestic and Gang Violence After Sessions 'Illegally' Revokes Asylum Rights

'Sickening': With So-Called 'Voluntary' Deportation, Trump's DHS Using Children as Bait to Expel Immigrants

Julia Conley, staff writer

Parents are told that if they sign a "voluntary departure order," they'll see their children again—a claim immigration attorneys say is both akin to blackmail, and likely untrue

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Costa Rica Will Become World's First Carbon-Free Country by 2021, New President Says

Julia Conley, staff writer

"When we reach 200 years of independent life we will take Costa Rica forward...

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'Illegally' Turning Back on Refugees, Trump Orders DHS to Bar Migrants Fleeing Violence From Entry

Julia Conley, staff writer

"The biggest flaw in Trump's thinking is that there is nothing illegal or...

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AG Sessions Basically Endorsed the Worst of DHS' Harsh New Deportation Plan

Refugees from El Salvador turn themselves in to a U.S. border agent near Rio Grande, Texas.

Central American Migrants Suffer from Skyrocketing Violence After Immigration Crackdown

Report Details How US-Backed Coup Unleashed Wave of Abuses in Honduras

US Planning New Sweep of 'Reprehensible' Deportation Raids

As Candidates Spar on Immigration, Rights Groups Sue for Answers

Children Caught In Sweep as Feds Begin Mass Deportations

Despite Refugee Crisis, US Plans Mass Deportations

US Program To Save Child Refugees Has Welcomed This Many: Zero

Obama Faces Latin American Opposition to Venezuela Sanctions as Cuba Joins Summit of the Americas

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Rebecca Gordon

Nicaragua at the Barricades... And a Crossroads

Victoria Sanford

We Supported Their Dictators, Led the Failed ‘War on Drugs’ and Now Deny Them Refuge

Osprey Orielle Lake, Emily Arasim

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Robert C. Koehler

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Aviva Chomsky

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Todd Miller

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Sonali Kolhatkar

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Hassan Ahmad

Homeland Security Targets Families Seeking Asylum

Robert Parry

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Oscar Arias Sanchez

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