A five-year-old boy separated from his dad at the border: First nights after, he cried himself to sleep. Then it was “just moaning and moaning,” said his foster mom. Read my labor of love about the fallout of the Trump policy. nyti.ms/2M85xC7
Miriam Jordan
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Miriam Jordan
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National Immigration Correspondent, The New York Times. [email protected] Send tips & thoughts!
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- NEW: Undocumented workers get the job done at President Trump's golf club. My story about who makes his bed, waters the greens and more. Right here:
- NEW! A DACA student mobilizes against his mom’s deportation. “I grew up in this country. My mother is the single biggest reason I am at a school like Yale,” he said of the campaign he started to win his mother’s freedom. nytimes.com/2019/10/31/us/… via @nytimes
- EXCLUSIVE: Undocumented workers at yet another Trump golf club lose their jobs as his company scrambles to contain the fallout of NYT revelations.
- A 13-year-old girl hung herself because her dad couldn’t make it across the border. It was his 3rd try; she had lost all hope. w @cegoldbaum nytimes.com/2019/07/17/us/… via @NYTimes
- BREAKING: ICE must release migrant kids in family detention centers. Citing coronavirus pandemic, federal judge says, "facilities are on fire and there is no more time for half measures.”
- NEW! Trump is likely to suspend work visas, such as H-1Bs, for foreign professionals and work authorization for foreign graduates of U.S. universities. Already, many laid off immigrants who built lives here are being forced to leave. My latest:
- NEW! Employers across the country panic over the potential loss of immigrant workers after the Trump administration sends out 577,000 Social Security no-match letters
- NEW: 2 more immigrant women say they worked for Trump when they were undocumented. “We said the papers are not good. She said it didn’t matter, but don’t talk about it,” recalled Ms. Dominguez.
- Scott Warren gave water, food and shelter to migrants in the Arizona desert. A jury can’t decide if he intended to commit a crime. nytimes.com/2019/06/11/us/… via @nytimes
- NEW: A court has ruled that the government must provide mental health services to mIgrant families traumatized by separation at the border. Read here:
- A federal judge has ordered the government to provide mental-health services for migrants traumatized by family separation. nytimes.com/2019/11/06/us/… via @nytimes
- HIAS, the Jewish resettlement agency attacked on social media by the synagogue shooter has helped millions of displaced people. “They did everything they can to help us and make it easy to adjust to a new life here,” said the Iraqi refugee in Pittsburgh.
- NEW!!!! Once a chauffeur to Trump's children and campaign staffers, the Romanian immigrant is now stuck in a detention center and facing deportation, a victim of his former employer's immigration crackdown. He hasn't seen his family in 8 months. Read here:
