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The life-altering choices immigrant families are making under Trump’s crackdown

By Maria Santana, CNN (CNN) — A quiet upheaval is unfolding in homes, schools, churches and workplaces across the United States, as families try to prepare for –– or avoid –– an en...

Family’s difficult decision amid ICE custody, Texas immigration reality

Our team has been following the case of 5-year-old Liam Tadeo, who was taken into ICE custody alongside his father in Austin in August. Immigration attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch ...

Clock Is Running Out for Thousands of Immigrant Children

Elder Chavez arrived in the United States alone at 14, fleeing Honduras after his parents abandoned him. He received Special Immigrant Juvenile status - a legal protection designed...

ICE Took Mom and Dad. Now the Kids Are on Their Own.

Last fall, life for the Perez children was turned upside down. Their father, Romeo Sr., was picked up on his way to work and sent to immigration detention. A few months later, thei...

Father of sailor aboard USS Lincoln detained by immigration authorities, family says

The immigrant father of a sailor on board the beleaguered USS Abraham Lincoln was anxiously awaiting his son’s return home when immigration authorities detained him over the weeken...

Father of sailor aboard USS Lincoln detained by immigration authorities, family says

The immigrant father of a sailor on board the beleaguered USS Abraham Lincoln was anxiously awaiting his son’s return home when immigration authorities detained him over the weeken...

Los Angeles family detained at immigration center in Texas for four months

A Los Angeles family has spent months in an immigration detention center in Texas, fighting a never-ending battle against the U.S. government, not for something they did, but becau...

U.S. citizen teens left behind when ICE deported their parents

Two Fort Worth teenagers, suddenly on their own. For nearly a year, 19-year-old Dulce Zepeda has been raising her 13-year-old sister, Maria, in the months since their parents were...

“We’re all immigrants”: 30 years helping immigrant families find their place in America

John Stahl has spent three decades at the Emerald Isle Immigration Center guiding families through America's ever-shifting immigration rules, even when the news isn't what they wan...

Baltimore Family Torn Apart After Father Of Four Is Detained By ICE On Way To Work

One trip to work changed everything.A Maryland family is scrambling to keep its life together after a Baltimore father was detained by ICE during his morning commute, leaving behin...

Minnesota teen balances graduation, new responsibilities after dad’s deportation to Laos

Navy sailor on USS Lincoln says dad was arrested by immigration officials

Historically rare, immigration arrests of military spouses and parents have become more common under the second Trump administration.

Maryland Mom Detained At ICE Check-In Weeks After Husband Was Taken In Montgomery County

They came to America hoping to build a better life for their children. Now those children are facing life without either parent at home.Jessica Yojana Hernandez Quintano was detain...

Sons of immigrant killed by ICE in Texas share grief, demand accountability

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's sons tell lawmakers their father worked hard 'to protect and provide' for his family.

Father of sailor aboard the beleaguered USS Abraham Lincoln detained by ICE, family says

The immigrant father of a sailor on board the beleaguered USS Abraham Lincoln was detained Saturday by immigration officials, family members said. Luis Manuel Aviles, originally...

Parents are Giving Up Green Card Fights to Get Their Kids Out of Immigrant Jail

As children languish in detention, a federal judge sics an independent watchdog on ICE.

BECOMING US

Long before newcomers began arriving at Ellis Island, Indigenous peoples had already lived on this land for thousands of years, but the first permanent Spanish colony in the mid-15...

Father of USS Lincoln sailor is released from ICE detention

The immigrant father of a sailor who is on board the beleaguered USS Abraham Lincoln is back with his family on Tuesday after being detained by immigration authorities over the wee...

Parents are giving up green card fights to get their kids out of immigrant jail

  Editor’s Note: Hours after this story was originally published on Aug. 18, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee made public her order appointing an independent monitor to oversee condit...

‘You come Monday, someone's gone': How immigration enforcement is affecting DMV schools

Fatima has only been a student in the United States for about five years, but in that short time, the teenager said she’s seen changes in how other high schoolers treat her amid in...

A dying dream: How Trump targets immigrants who arrived as children

  At 7 years old, JeanCarlos Fiallos Manzanares crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, hiding in the trunk of a taxi with his older sister. For more than a decade, he lived in t...

One H-1B Layoff Could Cost a Family Two Incomes and Their Right to Stay in America

For couples who have built their lives in America around two careers and two paychecks, losing one spouse’s ability to work could force a sudden rewrite of the family budget. That...

Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in 15 destination countries

We estimate intergenerational mobility of children of immigrants in fifteen receiving countries. Children of immigrants have somewhat lower income than children of local-born paren...

‘This is heartbreaking for me’ — A sailor serving on the USS Abraham Lincoln just found out his father was caught in Tru...

"I don’t know how I can mentally continue working 12+ hour days knowing that my dad is somewhere, possibly treated like a criminal,” Joshua Aviles wrote.