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Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 4, 2018
U.S. gives immigrants faced with removal choice of leaving with or without their children: report
The Trump administration is giving some parents who were separated from their children after entering the United States illegally the option of either being deported with their youngsters or without them, NBC News reported on Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 4, 2018
Teens taken at U.S. border tell of crammed 'icebox' and 'kennel' cages
A 15-year-old girl who was forcibly separated from her mother after fleeing to the U.S. from El Salvador described to a Washington state investigator how she was crammed into a windowless room with 60 other girls and deprived of proper sleep or food for three days.
EDITORIALS
Jul 3, 2018
Time to address Imperial family's shrinking ranks
The declining size of the Imperial family is an issue that shouldn't remain on the back burner.
JAPAN
Jul 2, 2018
Princess Ayako says she and fiance Kei Moriya hit it off from the start
Princess Ayako says she hit it off with her husband-to-be Kei Moriya from the time they first met last December at the introduction of her mother, Princess Hisako.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 29, 2018
'Mass civil disobedience': 600 arrested at Senate sit-in as women march against Trump's immigration policy
Nearly 600 protesters were arrested during a clangorous occupation of a U.S. Senate office building in Washington on Thursday, where they decried U.S. President Donald Trump's "zero- tolerance" stance on illegal immigration.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 28, 2018
Deported after Trump order, Central Americans grieve for lost, separated offspring left behind
Before deporting him in shackles last week, U.S. immigration agents handed Honduran asylum-seeker Melvin Garcia his few possessions and a small blue wallet belonging to Daylin, the 12-year-old daughter they had taken from him.
JAPAN
Jun 26, 2018
Princess Ayako's forthcoming engagement to shipping firm employee announced by Imperial Household Agency
Princess Ayako, the third daughter of Princess Hisako and the late Prince Takamado, Emperor Akihito's cousin, will marry a 32-year-old worker at shipping firm NYK Line in October, the Imperial Household Agency announced Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 26, 2018
ACLU seeks emergency order to reunify families split at U.S.-Mexico border
A civil rights group asked a U.S. judge to order the Trump administration to reunify more than 2,000 undocumented children taken from their immigrant parents and halt all future separations of families crossing the border to seek asylum.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 26, 2018
Trump and Democratic congresswoman clash as tempers rise on immigration
President Donald Trump lashed out on Monday at a Democratic congresswoman who urged Americans to confront members of Trump's inner circle in public places as tensions rose over the Republican president's hard-line immigration policy.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 26, 2018
Trump calls for turning immigrants away at border as divided Congress struggles for a fix
President Donald Trump reiterated frustration at laws granting due process to illegal immigrants on Monday and said people should be turned away at the border, as expectations faded for a speedy fix in the U.S. Congress to the border crisis.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 26, 2018
Texas U.S. bases Fort Bliss, Goodfellow tapped to hold migrant detainees
The Trump administration has chosen an Army base and an Air Force base, both in Texas, to house detained migrants swept up in the federal government's crackdown on illegal immigration, several defense officials said Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 25, 2018
Undocumented immigrants who 'invade' U.S. don't need due process: Trump
President Donald Trump ratcheted up his demands on immigration policy, saying that people who "invade" the U.S. illegally should be deported immediately without court hearings trial or other normal judicial processes.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 22, 2018
El Salvador demands U.S. return child taken from deported dad
El Salvador on Thursday demanded the United States return a child who had been taken from his father before the man was deported this week without any prior notification to embassy officials.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 22, 2018
Parents of 13 in California torture case ordered to stand trial
A judge on Thursday ordered a married couple to stand trial on 49 counts of torture, false imprisonment and abuse over the treatment of 13 siblings who were found imprisoned and starving in their suburban California home, prosecutors said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 21, 2018
American Airlines, United: Don't put separated migrant kids on our flights
American Airlines and United Airlines have asked the federal government to refrain from using their flights to transport migrant children who have been separated from their families.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 21, 2018
U.S. will ask judge to allow illegal immigrant families to be held together for more than 20 days
The U.S. Justice Department will ask a federal judge to modify a court settlement to allow authorities to detain illegal immigrant families together for more than 20 days, a department official said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 20, 2018
In Mexico, Trump's child separations trigger wrenching decisions
Epigmenio Centeno had hoped to cross the Mexican border into the United States in the coming months, but he and his wife have shelved their plans for fear of being separated from their two sons under U.S. President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 20, 2018
Trump doubles down on family separation policy amid growing backlash, blames media
President Donald Trump hardened his resolve to maintain his policy of separating children from parents who cross the border illegally amid an intensifying backlash from the public and lawmakers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 20, 2018
Trump's migrant child detentions mean $458 million for nonprofit minder
The Trump administration plans to pay a Texas nonprofit nearly half a billion dollars this year to care for immigrant children who were detained crossing the U.S. border illegally, according to government data.

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