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Hundreds of migrant children—including Magdalena's 13-year-old daughter—have been expelled under a policy that has gotten relatively little attention.

She was granted a protection that is harder to get than asylum. Her daughter was expelled. @CBSNews 1/
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That policy—justified via a CDC order—was challenged in court this week by @ACLU, @TXCivilRights, @ACLUTx, @CGRShastings, @Oxfam.

Magdalena, her daughter are part of one case. The other is for a teenage boy whose expulsion has been halted, for 2 weeks. 2/
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This policy of mass border expulsions—which the administration says is necessary to contain the coronavirus—has been extended indefinitely.

Yesterday, @HomelandKen called it the "order of the day for a while," citing the lack of a coronavirus vaccine. 3/
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ICE is currently holding 498 children with their families at the 3 family detention centers, per court documents filed tonight.

The gov't says there are no confirmed coronavirus cases at the 3 centers. @RAICESTEXAS has asked a federal court to require ICE to release families.
There were also 2,988 unaccompanied migrant minors in Office of Refugee Resettlement custody as of Friday.

ORR has confirmed 5 cases of coronavirus among kids in its custody. There are also at least 18 "self-reports" of positive cases among workers at facilities for these kids.
Citing COVID-19, advocates are asking Judge Dolly Gee—who oversees Flores litigation—to order the release of kids who are not flight risks & don't pose a danger to themselves / others.

She said the gov't must justify their continued detention by Friday:
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It's important to stress how much the expansion of the "travel ban" (in quotes because the new measures really amount to an immigration ban) could affect America's large Nigerian diaspora.

Halting immigration from Nigeria will affect many families here. cbsnews.com/news/trump-tra…
Nigeria is the largest source of African immigration to the U.S.

Per a Census Bureau estimate, 380,000 people in the U.S. reported having Nigerian ancestry.

In FY 2019, 6,700 Nigerians were granted immigrant visas to move to the U.S., per data compiled by @MigrationPolicy.
Rep. @JoeNeguse said the expansion is another unilateral admin. effort to restrict immigration.

"The data speaks for itself"

"It is clear that this administration, and they have been unabashed about it, they are doing everything they can to restrict immigration, of all kinds."
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JUST IN: The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to enforce its most ambitious effort to restrict legal immigration, green-lighting the public charge rule.

Critics say it will shut America's doors to low-income immigrants & people of color.
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This is major victory for the Trump administration, which says the rule is designed to promote "self-sufficiency" among immigrants.

But immigrant advocates say it institutes a “wealth test” designed to limit the immigration of poor people from developing, non-white countries.
The term "public charge" dates back to 1882 — when the US actively sought to limit immigration from non-white countries.

That year, the US enacted the discriminatory Chinese Exclusion Act on the premise that Chinese immigrants jeopardized "the good order of certain localities."
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