3 Charts That Show What’s Actually Happening Along The Southern Border
The number of people taken into custody at the southern U.S. border with Mexico has been decreasing since 2000. Economists say the reasons people choose to cross the border illegally are changing.
FACT CHECK: Trump, Illegal Immigration And Crime
In an effort to justify his get-tough policies at the southern border, President Trump met Friday with victims of crime committed by immigrants who entered the country illegally.
A Look At The Business Of Immigrant Detention
NPR’s Audie Cornish discusses the billion-dollar business of detaining immigrant children with New York Times reporter Katie Benner.
Baltimore Group Caring For Migrant Children, Working To Reunite Them With Parents
President Trump’s executive order ended family separation, but more than 2,000 children are still separated from their parents. Some of these children are under the care of groups like Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, based in Baltimore.
Week In Politics: Discussing The Trump Administration’s Immigration Policy
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Politico reporter Eliana Johnson of Politico, and E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and the Brookings Institution about the Trump administration’s immigration policy.
How Trump’s Reversal On Family Separation Is Changing Activity Along The Border
The Trump administration has backed off its policy of separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border. Maureen Meyer, director of the Mexico program at the Washington Office on Latin America, speaks with NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly from Arizona to talk about…
The History Of The Flores Settlement And Its Effects On Immigration
President Trump has ordered the Justice Department to file a request to modify a court agreement known as the Flores settlement to allow for immigrant families to be detained together at the border. The settlement has governed the detention of immigran…
Fearing Deportation, Some Immigrants Opt Out Of Health Benefits For Their Kids
A growing number of American children are losing out on Medicaid — and other programs — because their parents are undocumented immigrants and fear detainment and deportation.
A Latino Nonprofit Is Holding Separated Kids. Is That Care Or Complicity Or Both?
Southwest Key has, for many years, operated shelters that house unaccompanied migrant children. The family separation policy shined a spotlight on that work, and raised uncomfortable questions.
D.C. Sniper Lee Malvo To Get New Sentencing Hearings
Tried as a juvenile in the 2002 slayings of 10 people, Lee Boyd Malvo got multiple life sentences without parole. Now, an appeals court has affirmed that several of the sentences must be tossed.
In The Event Of Attack, Here’s How The Government Plans ‘To Save Itself’
In Raven Rock, Garrett Graff describes the bunkers designed to protect government leaders and the roles for various agencies in the event of catastrophe. Originally broadcast June 21, 2018.
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