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This is what the ‘zero-tolerance’ policy on the border means for people fleeing violence

May 18, 2018Immigration

A pregnant woman from Honduras and her young daughter broke away from a caravan and crossed the Rio Grande to get to the US. Had she done so just a few weeks later, she would have been arrested and separated from her child under a new DHS policy.

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Attorneys in Michigan’s Arab American communities have a short window to prepare for Trump’s immigration plan

January 29, 2017Justice

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