Sarah Matusek
Denver Bureau Chief at The Christian Science Monitor
Denver bureau chief @csmonitor • Reporting on ideas in the Mountain West & immigration in the interior • Tips & trail recs: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
csmonitor.com | Sarah Matusek |Alfredo Sosa
On a bumpy dirt-road drive through a watermelon farm, Kate Hobbs points out the flood plain. There’s a 1 in 100 chance of a major flood each year, she says. Hard rains haven’t come to this farm near Normandy, Texas, but people have – thousands in recent years. The flood plain is where her husband had just arrived before calling her, upset, on Mother’s Day 2021. She was cooking at the house. He told her he’d found five little girls, stranded.
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1 week ago |
csmonitor.com | Sarah Matusek
As the president pushes for mass deportations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a new strategy for arresting immigrants. First, ICE lawyers terminate people’s cases in immigration court. Then ICE officers arrest them at or just outside the courthouse. As a result, immigrants who may be trying to gain legal status in the United States are instead targeted for rapid removal.
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2 weeks ago |
csmonitor.com | Sarah Matusek |Riley Robinson
For locals in southern New Mexico and western Texas, the entrance of a new neighbor – the U.S. military – is stirring up a mixture of hope, distrust, and uncertainty. While some embrace more ways to deter unauthorized migration, others raise questions around the logistics and legality of new military zones.
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3 weeks ago |
csmonitor.com | Henry Gass |Sarah Matusek
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments this week in a case that is both unusual and potentially seismic in its consequences. The 14th Amendment says that anyone born in the United States is automatically a citizen of this country – and has been settled law since the 19th century. President Donald Trump is seeking to put an asterisk on that amendment as part of his crackdown on immigration.
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1 month ago |
csmonitor.com | Sarah Matusek |Riley Robinson
Driving along the Vermont-Quebec border, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Paul Allen keeps a watchful eye on passing cars. That maroon Toyota Tacoma is familiar. The blue Ford F-150, too. “If you’ve worked this area long enough, you know who should be here, who shouldn’t be here,” says the forest-green-clad agent. Mr. Allen and other agents seek immigrants crossing illegally from Canada, working in woods and lakes along the longest land border in the world.
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