This marks the highest level over a four week period in five years.
During the first months of the pandemic, the Trump administration placed a public health law that allowed border officials to turn away migrants encountered at the border.
While this law is still in order under the Biden administration, unaccompanied children are exempt from the order and can legally remain in the U.S. pending immigration cases.
The first months of the Biden administration have seen a surge in migrants arrested at the southern border, resulting in more than 3,200 unaccompanied migrant children in the custody of Customs and Border Protection as of March 9.
U.S. Will Provide Temporary Legal Status for More Than 300,000 Venezuelans
Venezuelan immigrants already in the U.S. will be able to live and work in the country for 18 months under the Biden decision.
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The Biden administration announced on Monday it will provide over 300,000 Venezuelan immigrants already in the U.S. with a temporary protected status that will let them live and work in the country for 18 months. In a statement, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it made the decision based on extraordinary and temporary conditions in Venezuela that will not allow people to return home safely. Former President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Jan. 19 to defer the deportation of Venezuelans for 18 months. After the order was issued, the Migration Policy Institute approximated that nearly 150,000 Venezuelan immigrants could b
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Asylum Seekers Say ICE Guard Threatened to Expose Them to COVID
Three asylum seekers from Cameroon say an Immigration and Customs Enforcement guard threatened to transfer them to a COVID ward.
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Three asylum seekers from Cameroon say an Immigration and Customs Enforcement guard threatened to expose them to COVID-19 if they failed to obey his orders and submit to deportation. They were told they would be transferred to Bravo-Alpha, the detention unit of the Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center in Louisiana where COVID-19 positive detainees were held in quarantine, detainee Clovis Fozao told The Intercept. “They were forcing us out of the dorm, pushing and dragging us,” Fozao said, explaining when the guards pushed the detainees toward deportation. “They threatened to call the SWAT team.” The Intercept