All posts tagged "Dreamers"

When Jose and Josue Trejo Lopez landed in El Salvador after their deportation flight in May, they had no idea who would meet them or where they would live.

The brothers, 20 and 19, respectively, said they know no one in the country they left as children nearly a decade before to escape gang violence, coming to the U.S. to seek asylum with their mother, who entered the country illegally.

“When we got to the [U.S.], we were little guys,” Jose told Raw Story via Zoom from El Salvador, where the brothers have been staying for two months with a 69-year-old man, a childhood friend of their grandmother....

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is in hot water with the progressive wing of his party over his new, tough-on-migrant border policy.

"I think it's a profound disappointment," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told Raw Story after voting on the House floor Wednesday.

Biden’s new executive order will force asylum seekers to be turned back at the border whenever the seven-day average for migrant encounters — an unscientific measurement that sometimes double or triple counts asylum seekers — tops 2,500 between entry points. ...