Unaccompanied Immigrant Children
Ventura County was home to one of three military sites throughout the country authorized in June 2014 to be used as emergency shelters to help cope with a surge of unaccompanied children — primarily from Guatemala, El Salvador or Honduras — illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
About 1,540 immigrant teenagers lived at the Naval Base Ventura County shelter during the two months it operated.
- June 12: Naval Base expects to house 575 immigrant children by Tuesday
- June 16: Community looks to provide aid as number of immigrant children at Navy shelter grows
- July 3: Navy shelter serves more than 1,100 immigrant children in first month
- July 7: Immigrant rights advocates to rally outside Navy Base while state legislators visit shelter
- July 8: Immigrant rights advocates rally for children housed at Port Hueneme Navy base
- July 15: Immigrant children at Navy shelter to receive additional vaccines
- July 26: Clogged L.A. Immigration Court could face more challenges from children crossing border
- July 29: Navy shelter for immigrant kids extended through January
- August 1: Navy base shelter for immigrant children to close Aug. 31
- August 4: Port Hueneme and other temporary shelters for unaccompanied children to close
- August 13: Immigrant children no longer living at Navy base
- September 5: Workers filing federal complaint against immigrant shelter employer
General Immigration Issues
Features
- Couple reunite after 1½-year wait for green card
- Hundreds pay tribute to Cesar Chavez at Oxnard march
- Cesar Chavez's son recalls his father as a farmworker icon
- Childhood immigration act stalls visa process for relatives of U.S. citizens
- Ventura County residents start 2014 by becoming U.S. citizens
Immigration Reform
- Economic forecast focuses on increased immigration
- Local immigrant advocacy groups caravan to Bakersfield rally
- McKeon supports immigration reform, but says Arab terrorists could pose as Hispanics to cross border
- Ventura County groups cheer passage of immigration bill
- Immigration reform legislation is a compromise, but welcomed by farmworkers
- Hundreds march through Oxnard to support immigration rights
- Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush gives his side of immigration, nation reform
- Oxnard woman, in U.S. illegally, joins bus tour to argue for immigration overhaul
- Immigration overhaul seen in Ventura County as overdue
Long-term Projects
Seeking Legal Status: A Ventura County couple navigating through the immigration process
- Part I: Port Hueneme couple is relying on new immigration policy to stay together
- Part II: Ventura County couple worry about path to immigration
- Part III: Ventura County couple stalled in bid for immigration waiver
- Part IV: Moorpark woman seeks alternate route after immigration struggle
COMENDADOR, Dominican Republic – Haitians stream through a low-lying metal gate into the Dominican Republic, past uniformed and armed guards who give them only a casual glance.
It’s market day, when Haitians don’t have to present a visa or passport to cross into this capital city, one of the Dominican Republican’s poorest, or into two other Dominican cities, Dajabon and Pedernales.
But there is a catch: Haitians without documentation are not permitted to travel more than about 100 yards into the Dominican Republic, and they are expected to return to their country by 6 p.m.