Tijuana ACLU file suit after Trump's new asylum rules go into effectThe Mercury News - The Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Hundreds of immigrants showed up at border crossings Tuesday in hopes of getting into the U.S. but faced the likelihood of …
San Jose, CA Opinion: When will American brutality against border children end?The Mercury News - Gil Villagran Taking children from their parents at our southern border in order to punish them, to deter families from seeking asylum from violence and unlivable …
Political Cartoons Political Cartoons: ICE raid hype fizzles nationwideThe Mercury News - Dylan Bouscher CLICK HERE if you are having a problem viewing the photos or videos on a mobile device No confirmed Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids were …
San Jose, CA Borenstein: Mr. President, we're already home -- and we're not leavingThe Mercury News - Daniel Borenstein The scene is burned into my childhood memories — and it shapes my response to the president’s bigoted comments this week about four members of …
Zoe Lofgren Letter: Lofgren's 'High-Skilled Immigrants Act' good for Silicon Valley techThe Mercury News - Letters To The Editor Re: “Bill to scrap per-country green card cap passes House with bipartisan support” (Eastbaytimes.com, July 10): There is little more dangerous to the …
Immigration Letter: Tip sheet helps immigrant families cope with fearsThe Mercury News - Letters To The Editor Re: “Photos: Best signs from the ‘Families Belong Together’ rallies around the nation” (Eastbaytimes.com, June 30): In our country today, children of …
Immigration ICE raids: Southern California not seeing stepped up enforcementThe Mercury News - Roxana Kopetman Jose Rodriguez stocked his food cart with fewer fresh fruit cups Sunday, figuring many in Santa Ana’s Latino community might stay home for fear of …
San Jose, CA No ICE raids reported so far in Bay Area Sunday, advocates sayThe Mercury News - Casey Tolan No confirmed Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids were reported to immigrant rights groups in the Bay Area Sunday morning, advocates said, in a …
Immigration Letter: More backlash if blonde, blue-eyed kids were heldThe Mercury News - Letters To The Editor The detainees at the southern border left their homelands to escape crippling poverty and violence in hopes of finding refuge in America. While they …
Deportation Film airing on PBS recalls city's dark deportation historyThe Mercury News - The Associated Press BISBEE, Ariz. — The darkest, most violent chapter in the history of Bisbee was an open secret for decades in the funky old Arizona copper town 7 …
Detention Center Police: Man dies after attacking immigration prisonThe Mercury News - The Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. — A man armed with a rifle threw incendiary devices at an immigration jail in Washington state early Saturday morning, then was found …
Immigration Photos: Immigrant Rights Rally held in Castro ValleyThe Mercury News - Doug Duran Click here if you are having trouble viewing the slideshow on a mobile device. Castro Valley community members, the Eden Area Interfaith Council and …
Immigration Bay Area residents rally against planned immigration raidsThe Mercury News - Staff and wire reports OAKLAND — Hundreds of people gathered throughout the Bay Area on Friday to protest conditions for immigrants and the threat of immigration …
Mike Pence Pence tours crowded migrant detention facility in TexasThe Mercury News - Reuters MCALLEN, Tex. – Vice President Mike Pence viewed an overcrowded, foul-smelling facility in Texas on Friday where nearly 400 men are detained after …
Immigration 2 Camp Pendleton Marines charged with helping to smuggle migrants into the U.S.The Mercury News - Erika I. Ritchie CAMP PENDLETON — Two Marines who serve as riflemen with the 1st Battalion/5th Marines at Camp Pendleton are being accused of helping to smuggle three …
San Jose, CA Threat of ICE raids sparks fear, activism in Bay Area immigrant communitiesThe Mercury News - Casey Tolan The prospect of nationwide immigration raids starting this weekend has spread fear in the Bay Area’s immigrant communities, and added new urgency to …
Immigration Trump drops plans for citizenship question on 2020 censusThe Mercury News - Reuters WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump dropped plans on Thursday to add a contentious citizenship question to the 2020 census, but insisted the …
Immigration Cepeda: New ICE plan threatens immigrants and communitiesThe Mercury News - Esther J. Cepeda CHICAGO — The Trump administration uses a wide variety of methods to suppress civil liberties. Some are out in the open, such as threatening mass …
Immigration Report: Mass immigration roundups in U.S. to start SundayThe Mercury News - Reuters Roundups of undocumented immigrant families will start Sunday in 10 U.S. cities, fulfilling a hardline immigration stance from U.S. President Donald …
Zoe Lofgren Bill to scrap per-country green card cap passes House with bipartisan supportThe Mercury News - Ethan Baron Amid a backlog that sees some applicants waiting decades for green cards, 140 Republican members of Congress joined 224 Democrats and passed a bill …
Immigration Two California Marines charged with smuggling immigrants into the United StatesThe Mercury News - Patrick Perron Two US Marines are accused of smuggling Mexican immigrants into the United States, according to court documents. Last week, Border Patrol agents in …
Immigration California becomes first state to offer benefits to immigrants in country illegallyThe Mercury News - Associated Press SACRAMENTO — California has become the first state to offer taxpayer-funded health benefits to young adults living in the country …
Immigration Activists worry about potential abuse of face scans for ICEThe Mercury News - The Associated Press BOSTON — Civil rights activists complained Monday of the potential for widespread abuse following confirmation that at least three states have …
Immigration Japanese-American internee: ‘It’s happening all over again’The Mercury News - Jon Kawamoto EMERYVILLE — At the age of 99, Yae Wada says she’s finally over being angry and bitter about her incarceration during World War II. But she still …
Profit Letter: Why hold immigrant kids in unsanitary for-profit camps?The Mercury News - Letters To The Editor The inhumane treatment of children in overcrowded detention camps is unconscionable. From court-ordered investigators who went public, we know the …
U.S. Department of Justice Justice Department shaking up legal team on census caseThe Mercury News - The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is shaking up the legal team fighting for the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 census but offered …
U.S. Department of Homeland Security H-1B: Judge revives lawsuit seeking to kill foreign-student work permit, allows input from Big Tech and outsourcersThe Mercury News - Ethan Baron A federal court judge has given new life to a lawsuit seeking to end the Optional Practical Training program that allows foreign students and recent …
Immigration Letter: Alarming findings about ICE demonstrate need for reformThe Mercury News - Letters To The Editor Re: “ICE deported veterans while ‘unaware’ it was required to carefully screen them, report says” (Eastbaytimes.com, June 9): Alex Horton’s Washington …
Immigration Cepeda: Our tax dollars are funding human rights violationsThe Mercury News - Esther J. Cepeda CHICAGO — To those of us who have been following reports of the inhumane ways immigrants have been treated along the southern border, it comes as no …
