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In this July 9, 2019, file photo, immigrants line up in the dinning hall at the U.S. government's newest holding center for migrant children in Carrizo Springs, Texas. The Biden administration plans to partially end the 27-year-old court supervision of how the federal government cares for child migrants, shortly after producing its own list of safeguards against mistreatment. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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Biden administration will seek partial end to special court oversight of child migrants
By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press
Thu,05/09/24-2:18PM , 61 Reads
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration will seek to partially end the 27-year-old court supervision of how the federal government cares for child migrants traveling alone, shortly after producing its own list of safeguards against mistreatment, an attorney involved in the case says.
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Kedian William, 38, of Jamaica, hands a phone charger to volunteer Pedro Rios while waiting between two border walls in San Diego for agents on Friday, March 29, 2024. A federal judge on Friday sharply questioned the Biden administration's position that it bears no responsibility for housing and feeding migrant children while they wait in makeshift camps along the U.S-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

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Judge questions Border Patrol stand that it's not required to care for children at migrant camps
By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press
Fri,03/29/24-3:58PM , 66 Reads
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday sharply questioned the Biden administration's position that it bears no responsibility for housing and feeding migrant children while they wait in makeshift camps along the U.S-Mexico border.
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An officer directs people to a courtroom, Jan. 10, 2024, in an immigration court in Miami. A 53-year-old union of immigration judges has been ordered to get supervisor approval to speak publicly to anyone outside the Justice Department, potentially quieting a frequent critic of heavily backlogged immigration courts in an election year. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

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Immigration judges union, a frequent critic, is told to get approval before speaking publicly
By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press
Mon,03/04/24-8:00PM , 97 Reads
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A 53-year-old union of immigration judges has been ordered to get supervisor approval to speak publicly to anyone outside the Justice Department, potentially quieting a frequent critic of heavily backlogged immigration courts in an election year.
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Agents walk among rooms at a Border Patrol holding facility on Dec. 15, 2023, in Tucson, Ariz. U.S. asylum officers were instructed nearly a year ago to apply a higher screening standard on people who cross the border illegally to claim asylum after passing through another country. But they are too understaffed to have much impact. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

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US asylum measure aimed at curbing claims has limited impact given strained border budget
By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press
Tue,02/27/24-11:19PM , 74 Reads
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Inside giant white tents that house about 1,000 migrants near Tucson International Airport, Border Patrol agents demonstrate clockwork efficiency to release detainees within two days of arrest with orders to appear in immigration courts at their final destinations.
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