CBP agents block anyone without documents from crossing the bridge at the border, because if people reach the passport control desk and ask for asylum, immigration officials should by law let them enter (though even previously they sometimes didn’t).
“Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.”
(HRW) – Migrant children might soon be separated from their parents as a matter of course when families enter the United States irregularly, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told CNN in early March. Under the proposal, which another Homeland Security official described as…
World (FEE) – For human potential, few things are more dangerous than a “safe space.” A flourishing life requires what Nassim Taleb calls “antifragility”: the adaptive capacity to self-improve in response to challenge and adversity. When young people are artificially…
South Sudan (NFA) – More than one million children have now fled South Sudan where escalating conflict is ravaging the country, UNICEF and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today. “The horrifying fact that nearly one in five children in South…
India (NI) – An anti child trafficking campaign in India asks the public to photograph and share pictures child beggars, but it’s not as easy as it seems. A heartbreaking issue, one I shrink from in abject cowardice, because of the…
Armenia (HRW) – Close Orphanages; Ensure Accessible Services, Education for All. Thousands of children in Armenia are needlessly separated from their parents and placed in institutions due to disability or poverty, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The…
Africa (NFA) – Almost 1.4 million children are at imminent risk of death from severe acute malnutrition this year, as famine looms in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, UNICEF said today. “Time is running out for more than a million…
North Korea (HRW) – Forced Labor and Discrimination Will Top Child Rights Committee Briefing The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child should press the North Korean government to end the exploitation of children through forced labor and discrimination,…
