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Fortune: The rationale for immigration backlogs
While much attention on the immigration debate has focused on the U.S.-Mexico border, the administration has created backlogs on legal immigration by employing “a bunch of clever, smaller changes that have added up to a large impact” in agencies like the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said Migration Policy Institute analyst Sarah Pierce.
NBC News: Federal immigration authorities are putting thousands of detained immigrants in solitary confinement
Detention centers have been putting immigrants “into extended periods of isolation for reasons that have nothing to do with violating any rules.” Some of them needed special accommodations for a disability, or for reporting abusive behavior by officers, for example.
Boston Herald: Immigrant advocates demand ICE release detained activists
The state chapter of Cosecha, an immigrant advocacy group, is seeking the release of two local activists. New Hampshire police detained Nelson Lopez and Heiner Nolasco on May 13, and then called Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Washington Post: The president is no longer a hard-liner on E-Verify
In a recent interview, the president had a different take on the use of the employment verification system than he has taken in the past: from a strong position on using the platform and imposing penalties to those who did not comply, to its use being “a possibility.”
NPR: Death at the border and the people trying to ‘find out who migrants were’
Authorities are searching human remains in desolated areas of the U.S.–Mexico border, “then they find the remains, next to a patch of orange wildflowers, in the shade of a mesquite tree.”
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