Border Crisis

Republican Mayor Doug Nicholls declared a state of emergency as the city cannot handle the surge of immigrants the federal government is releasing from detention centers.

Both the UK and US are now using DNA testing on migrant children who have entered the country illegally, according to CNN and the Independent.

Immigrant rights advocates on Tuesday applauded a federal judge’s ruling that the Trump administration cannot detain asylum seekers who are awaiting immigration hearings—a practice that breaks the government’s own policies as well as international law.

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order reuniting families who were being separated at the border is hardly what it’s cracked up to be. Advocates are warning that although it may free young children from their steel wire cages and allow them to rejoin their parents, it could also see their basic protections be removed while also opening the door to new abuses.

As thousands of children remain in federal custody after being taken from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, federal court filings allege that children in at least one detention center in Texas have been forcibly given medications that have made them dizzy, lethargic, and even incapacitated.

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