Immigration

A new report says that months before the Trump administration separated thousands of families at the U.S.-Mexico border, a “pilot program” in Texas left child-welfare officials scrambling to find empty beds for babies taken from their parents. The problems in the pilot program previewed what would happen months later: government employees caring for young children and many parents being deported without their kids.

With immigration laws temporarily suspended at the border during the coronavirus pandemic, people who enter the U.S. illegally are immediately expelled without even a piece of paper, generally within two hours and with no chance to plead for protection from persecution. Facing no consequences, migrants are more determined to keep trying until they succeed.

A new lawsuit aims to end the controversial “Remain in Mexico” program, which has sent over 60,000 asylum seekers back to Mexico since its implementation in early 2019.

Community members are skeptical that a police investigation into the Border Patrol shooting would be done without influence or tampering by the agency.

A federal judge wants the Department of Justice to participate more in the search for the parents of hundreds of children it separated from them at the border.

As COVID-19 limited travel the US asylum system nearly ground to a halt, and the US has expelled anyone who crosses the border without authorization in a matter of minutes. It has also postponed all scheduled asylum hearings for those in the “Remain-in-Mexico” program.

The surge in early voting across San Diego county, the Supreme Court sides with President Trump to end the census early, and a look at what happens to asylum seekers who are returned to Central America.

San Diego’s refugees lost income, missed medical appointments and struggled with the shift to online schooling, according to a new survey.

Protesters gathered at the Otay Mesa Detention Center to call on Gov. Gavin Newsom to stop transfers of federal detainees and release those at risk of contracting COVID-19.

A federal judge has temporarily lifted a visa ban on a large number of work permits, undercutting a measure that the Trump administration says will protect American jobs in a pandemic-wracked economy.