Immigration

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A once-remote patch of rainforest is now packed with migrants trying to reach the U.S.

More than 100,000 people have crossed the Darién Gap jungle from Colombia to Panama so far this year. The environmental impact and threats from cartels are many.
- John Otis
Private immigrant prison in Tacoma must now pay working detainees minimum wage

A federal jury ruled this week that GEO Group, the company that runs the Northwest ICE Processing Center for immigrants, must pay working detainees the state’s minimum wage. Thousands of past detainees are eligible for back pay in a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit.
- Casey Martin
Jury rules GEO Group must pay detainees minimum wage, not $1 per day

‘I think this case vividly illustrates the problems that you have when you have a private corporation running this detention center, which is for all purposes a prison.’
- Paige Browning
Kat Chow examines the long life of grief in 'Seeing Ghosts'

‘What do we owe in death? What do we owe to our parents?’
- Kendra Hanna
The Biden Administration Is Fighting In Court To Keep A Trump-Era Immigration Policy

A rarely used U.S. code pertaining to public health was invoked during the pandemic by the Trump White House to expel asylum-seekers. The Biden White House wants to keep it.
- Joel Rose
In Texas, Officials Are Reporting A Surge Of Migrants At The Southern Border This Week

Texas officials call it a "historic surge." Thousands of new arrivals, largely from Haiti, are straining an already overstretched system, and more are on the way.
- Jaclyn Diaz
ICE detained immigrant children in Washington state. New documents pierce its secrecy

This story was published in partnership with Reveal.
- Esmy Jimenez
Anna Qu’s fierce memoir grapples with child labor, immigration, and love

As a teen, Chinese American author Anna Qu was forced by her mother to work in their family's garment factory in Queens, New York. At home she was the family’s maid, and faced punishment for doing things like schoolwork. Qu contacted Child Protective Services to report her mother, but due to bureaucratic bumbling she was left her to fend for herself. Now as an adult, Qu reckons with life, family, and not so easy answers to past trauma in her memoir.
- Sonya Harris
U.S. Encounters An 'Unprecedented' Number Of Migrants. DHS Says 'It's Complicated'

Immigration authorities encountered migrants more than 212,000 times at the border in July, the highest in 20 years — including nearly 19,000 unaccompanied children, the most ever in a single month.
- Joel Rose
Controlling The Border Is A Challenge. Texas Gov. Abbott's Crackdown Is Proving That

"Operation Lone Star," as it's called, relies on a force of state troopers, National Guard and reinforcements from other red states. The mission is to curtail the migrants surging into the Rio Grande.
- John Burnett

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