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In February, the Border Patrol announced that it had safely helped an asylum-seeker give birth while in custody. But a new complaint says the woman instead gave birth holding on to the side of a garbage can while still wearing pants. -
There are now six confirmed cases of COVID-19 among detainees at the Otay Mesa Detention Center and five among employees. Immigrant advocates now fear a wider coronavirus outbreak in the facility is inevitable. -
Immigrant advocates are alarmed at what they see as the beginning of a larger possible outbreak at a facility they believe has not taken enough precautions to protect its detainees and staff. -
Advocates say the greatest risk of the spread of coronavirus doesn’t come from the detainees themselves, who have been kept isolated from the larger world for weeks and months, but from the guards and other employees at facilities.
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The program is postponed until at least late April after advocates argue that prolonging the program leaves an already vulnerable group at risk during a public health emergency. -
On Saturday morning, the U.S. border with Mexico was closed to all “non-essential” travel as part of the federal government’s effort to contain the Coronavirus pandemic. But people with valid reasons for crossing the border will still be able to. -
Former interpreters and their advocates worry that a generation of people who worked with U.S. forces as contractors will be caught in a growing backlog. -
A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily halted a Trump administration policy to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration courts.
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KPBS Midday EditionChanges to the country’s “public charge” rule will make it harder for poor immigrants in America to become legal residents if they rely on safety net programs like subsidized healthcare and food benefits. -
KPBS Midday EditionNazario will be speaking Tuesday at the 25th annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University.
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