Immigrant Children

Trump admin ordered to restore legal aid for unaccompanied migrant children

A federal judge in California on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore legal aid to tens of thousands of migrant children who are in the United States without a parent or guardian. The Republican administration on March 21 terminated a contract with the Acacia Centre for Justice, which provides legal services for unaccompanied migrant children under 18 through a network of legal aid groups that subcontract with the center. Eleven subcontractor groups sued, saying that 26,000 children were at risk of losing their attorneys; Acacia is not a plaintiff. Those groups argued that the government has an obligation under a 2008 anti-trafficking law to provide vulnerable children with legal counsel. US District Judge Araceli Martnez-Olgun of San Francisco granted a temporary restraining order late Tuesday. She wrote that advocates raised legitimate questions about whether the administration violated the 2008 law, warranting a return to the status quo while the case .

Court rules against policy to shield immigrants who came to US as children

A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against an Obama-era policy to shield immigrants who came to the country illegally as young children, only three days before Donald Trump takes office with pledges of mass deportations. The unanimous decision by a panel of the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans two judges appointed by Republican presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, and one by Democrat Barack Obama is the latest blow for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme, whose beneficiaries have lived in legal limbo for more than a decade. It signals no immediate change for its more than 500,000 beneficiaries, who can renew temporary permits to live and work in the United States. But the federal government cannot take new applications, leaving an aging and thinning pool of recipients. The decision may tee up the policy for a third visit to the Supreme Court. Trump sought to end DACA during his first term, but he also occasionally expressed wishes that

National Spelling Bee: Reflection of Indian immigrants at global stage

When Balu Natarajan became the first Indian American champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 1985, a headline on an Associated Press article read, Immigrants' son wins National Spelling Bee, with the first paragraph noting the champion speaks his parents' native Indian language at home. Those details would hardly be newsworthy today after a quarter-century of Indian American spelling champs, most of them the offspring of parents who arrived in the United States on student or work visas. This year's bee is scheduled to begin Tuesday at a convention centre outside Washington and, as usual, many of the expected contenders are Indian American, including Shradha Rachamreddy, Aryan Khedkar, Bruhat Soma and Ishika Varipilli. Nearly 70 per cent of Indian-born US residents arrived after 2000, according to census data, and that dovetails with the surge in Indian American spelling bee champions. There were two Indian American Scripps winners before 1999. Of the 34 since, 28 have been

US, Mexico discuss rising number of migrants in high-level meetings

A US delegation discussed immigration and regional development in a series of meetings in Mexico at a time when rising numbers of migrants arriving at their shared border have raised concerns

Migrant inclusivity lowest in India in 2020, integration 'denied': Study

The index, a policy tool that measures a country's national policies on international immigrants across eight parameters, is published jointly by two European think-tanks

245 children from separated immigrant families still in US custody

Of those, only 18 children are currently in the pipeline to reunite with their parents in their countries of origin

No more separation of immigrant kids from parents in US; Trump signs order

Trump signed the executive order following widespread protests against the move of his administration to separate children from their parents who illegally enter the country

Immigrant children's play can clash with mainstream cultures

When children move to another culture and context, their experiences of play can be quite complex