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Immigrant advocacy groups are calling for an immediate end to restrictive policies they say are driving more family separations.
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As migrant families cross into the United States, many are being flown to San Diego and then removed to Mexico, without any of their belongings. This policy may be contributing to the rise of unaccompanied children crossing the border.
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Black migrants must deal with both racism in Mexico, and unequal treatment from the U.S. government.
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As the Border Patrol deals with capacity issues in Texas, the agency is flying families across the country so it can remove them.
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KPBS Midday EditionSupporters of former President Donald Trump use social media to spread misinformation about asylum seekers, immigrants and refugees from Middle Eastern and North African backgrounds are underrepresented in the census, and reflections on the demolition of San Diego Stadium in Mission Valley.
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Migration flows to the U.S. from Mexico are surging for the third time in seven years under Republican and Democratic presidents — and for similar reasons. Numbers grew steadily over President Donald Trump's final months in office but demographics shifted more recently. Families and children traveling alone, who enjoy more legal protections and require greater care than adults, have accounted for 29% of all Border Patrol encounters in February, up from 13% two months earlier. The Biden administration is rapidly opening new holding centers to speed children's release in the United States.
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KPBS Midday EditionAlmost a month after the Biden administration launched a program to process some asylum-seekers along the southern border, hundreds of people are now camped outside of the San Ysidro Port of Entry.
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The Mexico Violence Resource Project, began last fall by UCSD's Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, has the stated goal of facilitating better analysis of the facts on the ground of our neighbor to the south.
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A bill aimed at addressing pollution along the U.S.-Mexico border and improving water quality in the Tijuana and New rivers was introduced Wednesday.
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For the past week, some asylum-seekers sent back to Tijuana by the Trump administration have been allowed to re-enter the United States. KPBS spoke to one of those families.
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