John Burnett appears in the following:
U.S. Is Running Out Of Space For Separated Migrant Families
Thursday, September 13, 2018
The government is running out of shelter space to put teenaged immigrants from Central America who are in its care, complicating the picture of how to handle unauthorized immigrants seeking asylum.
Searching For Deported Parents In Guatemala, While Children Wait In The U.S.
Thursday, September 06, 2018
The ACLU and other groups are scouring Guatemala to track down parents who were separated from their children in the United States and deported back home without them.
Guatemalan President Shuts Down Anti-Corruption Probe
Monday, September 03, 2018
The president of Guatemala is shutting down a U.N.-backed commission investigating corruption, including violations within his own campaign.
Lawyers, Advocates Comb Guatemala For Missing Families
Sunday, September 02, 2018
Hundreds of migrant parents may have been deported without their children after trying to enter the U.S. Many of them are from Guatemala, where non-governmental groups are trying to track them down to reunite the families.
'I Wouldn't Move Back': Deported Irish Man Creates A Life In His New Home
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Dylan O'Riordan, who was living in Boston illegally before being picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. His parents brought him to the U.S. when he was 12.
Donations Grow For Funds That Pay To Get Migrants Out Of ICE Detention
Monday, August 13, 2018
Outrage over the administration's policy of family separations at the border prompted an outpouring of donations to bond funds. People are giving so detained immigrants can post bond and be released.
Detained Fathers Turn To Hunger Strike
Thursday, August 02, 2018
Immigrant families held at the Karnes County Residential Center in Texas are striking to protest their imprisonment.
Migrant Parents Launch Hunger Strike In Detention Centers
Wednesday, August 01, 2018
Migrant parents who were reunited with their children but remain in detention began a hunger strike Wednesday inside of a family jail in South Texas, in protest of the constant legal limbo.
Family Reunion Update
Saturday, July 28, 2018
A court deadline for the Trump administration to reunite all the migrant families it separated at the border has now passed. The government says it has complied, but hundreds of kids are still held.
Hundreds Of Families Still Separated As Reunification Deadline Arrives
Thursday, July 26, 2018
A court-imposed deadline to reunite separated children with their parents has arrived, but there are still many obstacles for the government to clear before they can reunite all of the families.
Under Deadline, Government Scrambles To Reunite Migrant Families
Thursday, July 26, 2018
The immigration bureaucracy on the border is a world of courtrooms and jail cells, officers and gray-suited guards. But no one has seen anything quite like the current effort to reunite families.
'Alternatives To Detention' Are Cheaper Than Jails, But Cases Take Far Longer
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
The Trump administration faces the same challenge as its predecessors: if you cannot detain immigrant families, how do you ensure they show up for hearings and deportation?
Government Lawyers Say Some Migrant Children Are Ineligible For Reunification
Friday, July 13, 2018
Lawyers for the federal government updated a judge in San Diego Friday, saying the government has reunified 57 of the 103 children under the age of 5, claiming the others are ineligible for reunification.
Government Misses Migrant Family Reunification Deadline
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
A federal judge is allowing more time to return all children under 5 who were separated from their parents at the border.
Only Around Half Of 'Tender Age' Children Will Be Reunited With Parents By Deadline
Monday, July 09, 2018
Tuesday is the deadline for the Trump administration to reunite migrant parents separated from their children under the age of 5 at the U.S.-Mexico border.
ACLU Family Separation Hearing
Friday, July 06, 2018
Lawyers from the ACLU and the federal government appear in a San Diego courtroom Friday to update a federal judge on compliance with the order to reunite families separated at the border.
ICE Has New Ways To Keep Asylum-Seekers And Their Kids Apart, Critics Say
Wednesday, July 04, 2018
In the case of a Honduran asylum-seeker jailed in Texas, ICE appears to be defying a court order to reunite parents and separated children as soon as possible, by setting bond amounts impossibly high.
The U.S. Has A Long, Troubled History Of Detaining Families Together
Friday, June 29, 2018
Now that President Trump no longer can separate migrant families detained at the border, his administration is preparing to lock them up together — an arrangement with many critics and legal limits.
'I'm Crushed': Migrant Parents, Advocates Press For Family Reunification
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
The government says it is "working as fast as we possibly can" but that the reunification process takes time because sponsors need to be vetted before children are released to them.
Federal Officials Try To Address Criticism Over Where Children Are Being Detained
Monday, June 25, 2018
Federal officials are trying to quell outrage over migrant families and their advocates describing bureaucratic obstacles and frantic searches for children who were separated from their parents and sent to youth shelters around the country.