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On the Border, Living in the Shadow of Separated Families

As VOA approached the 77,000-square-foot detention center from one side, three young cousins trekking on a dirt side road stopped. “Yep, that’s Ursula,” said Ramon Montoya through the driver’s window of a red pickup, referring to the detention center, a sterile dirty-white box with burgundy trim that stands a few kilometers north of Mexico. Locally, the center is called by the name of the street it’s on, Ursula. The Kansas-born son of Mexican-native parents and meat industry workers,...

Trump: Deport Illegal Immigrants Immediately, No Court Hearings

U.S. President Donald Trump called Sunday for immediately deporting illegal immigrants entering the United States with "no Judges or Court Cases." In a string of Twitter comments, Trump declared, "We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country...," contending that "Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order." The U.S. leader claimed that the U.S. immigration law is "laughed at all over the world, is very unfair...

Vatican Convicts Ex-diplomat of Child Porn Distribution

The Vatican tribunal on Saturday convicted a former Holy See diplomat and sentenced him to five years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography in the first such trial of its kind inside the Vatican. Monsignor Carlo Capella admitted to viewing the images during what he called a period of “fragility” and interior crisis sparked by a job transfer to the Vatican embassy in Washington. He apologized to his family and the Holy See, and appealed for leniency by saying the...

Protests Continue Over Migrant Detentions, Despite Policy Change

Protests continue over the treatment of migrants detained in Texas for entering the United States illegally, although the Trump administration on Wednesday reversed its controversial practice of separating detained children and parents at the border. Still, thousands of migrants remain in detention awaiting their court cases, and many are still apart from their children. As the dramatic story unfolds, Americans are hearing conflicting narratives. At an Immigration and Customs...

South Carolina Congressional Candidate Injured

South Carolina Republican congressional candidate Katie Arrington, who ousted incumbent U.S. Representative Mark Sanford in a primary this month, was seriously injured in a car crash that killed the driver of a second vehicle, her campaign said Saturday. Arrington, 47, was the passenger in a car driven by a friend Friday night when a vehicle traveling in the wrong direction struck them on Highway 17 in Charleston County as they were going to Hilton Head where Arrington was to receive...

Newspaper: Kushner ‘Ready to Work’ With Abbas

Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s senior adviser, said that he is “ready to work” with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a newspaper reported Sunday. Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, spoke in an interview with the Palestinian newspaper Al Quds, the Arabic name for Jerusalem. In the interview, which was headlined, “I am ready to work with President Abbas, if he wishes” and published in Arabic, Kushner gave a direct message to the Palestinian people: “You...

US Lawmakers Prepare for Vote Next Week on Immigration Bill

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representative plan to hold a vote next week on an immigration bill despite Trump urging them Friday to abandon efforts to pass legislation until after the mid-term elections. Even if the Republicans — who have a majority in both the House and Senate — approve a bill, it faces almost certain defeat in the upper chamber where Democrats hold enough seats to prevent Republicans, even if they all vote together, from reaching the 60 votes needed for passage....