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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Seeking Safe Haven: Central American children hope to find refuge across U.S.-Mexico Border

Seeking Safe Haven: Central American children hope to find refuge across U.S.-Mexico Border

Sara Cline April 29, 2016

About an hour south of Tucson, on the other side of a fence that demarcates the United States from Mexico, a humanitarian crisis unfolds as tens of thousands of child migrants from Central America...

Over the past ten years, immigration backlogs have more than doubled. ( Chart: https://infogr.am/us_immigration_backlogs)

Justice delayed: Immigration courts drown in backlogged cases

Kendal Blust March 24, 2016

U.S. immigration courts nationwide are struggling under severe backlogs, despite the addition of nine immigration judges announced in February. Immigration spending has not kept pace with money...

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