Immigration
Politics and pandemics, it was a difficult and confounding year. Here’s a look inside my top stories of 2020 in NC.
Elizabeth was detained when her baby was just 4 months old. She is part of a class-action petition and complaint that includes 14 women who claim they suffered medical abuse while in immigration custody.
The Trump administration separated thousands of children from their families at the border between 2017 and 2018, and 545 children remain without their families.
The missing parents are from Trump’s 2017 pilot program to separate families at the border.
Two unnamed ICE officials told the Washington Post that the increase in raids were more about politics than enforcement, as President Donald Trump has repeatedly condemned so-called sanctuary cities.
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A draft report from the Justice Department's inspector general revealed that Jeff Sessions and others encouraged the “zero-tolerance” policy that separated more than 4,000 children from their families at the US-Mexico border.
The Trump administration has slashed immigration. Bipartisan experts—and Biden—say boosting immigration will stimulate the economy at a time when the United States needs it most.
