If you’re wondering what’s going on at the southern border, take a look at our latest Green Card & Immigration Updates newsletter which explains the most important questions people have been asking.
- Who are these children and where are they from?
- Why is there a crisis now?
- Why can’t the U.S. just send them back to their home countries?
- Will greater border enforcement solve the problem?
- Do they carry diseases and threaten public health?
- Are they gang members?
- Are they refugees?
- Do they have a legal right to stay in the U.S.?
- Can they apply for the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program?
- Does the government pay for lawyers for the children
