Chantal Da Silva

Reporter

Chantal Da Silva is a Reporter at Newsweek focused on U.S. politics, immigration and rights issues. She is a Canadian-British journalist whose work has also been featured by The Independent, The i Newspaper, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and elsewhere. Chantal has an MA in Journalism from the University of Western Ontario. Get in touch with Chantal at c.dasilva@newsweek.com.

  
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 DHS Panel Wants to Take Migrant Children’s ‘Biometrics’ Released by the Department of Homeland Security, the report suggested measures to address the recent "large-scale influx" of families arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border.
  
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 Barr Ruling Against Migrants Fresh 'Assault,' ACLU Says "This is the Trump administration’s latest assault on people fleeing persecution and seeking refuge in the United States," ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project Director Omar Jadwat said.
  
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 Ocasio-Cortez: Justice System Like 'Class Enforcement' Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the college admissions scandal shows the justice system "targets race" and pardons "crimes of wealth and privilege."
  
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 Exclusive: Trump Orders Thousands More Troops to Border Defense Department documents obtained by Newsweek show a troop surge at the southwest border, a request made by the White House amid President Donald Trump’s renewed push to stem the flow of...
  
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 Eighty Percent Rise in Abusers Threatening to Call ICE A survey found an increase in alleged abusers using the tactic to discourage victims from seeking help.
  
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 Canada's Notre Dame Bells Ring Out for Paris  While tributes honoring Paris' historic cathedral poured in from all corners of the globe, in Montreal the bells of another Notre Dame peeled, sending a message of solidarity from across the...
  
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 Will Stephen Miller Testify Before Congress? "Stephen Miller, who seems to be the boss of everybody on immigration, ought to come before Congress and explain some of these policies," said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler.
  
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 Nielsen Praises 'Excellence' of Outgoing ICE Chief Ronald Vitiello’s “knowledge and expertise as a seasoned law enforcement professional has been invaluable to DHS," said former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
  
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 Snowden: Assange Arrest a 'Dark Day for Press Freedom' "Images of Ecuador's ambassador inviting the U.K.'s secret police into the embassy to drag a publisher of—like it or not—award-winning journalism out of the building are going to end up in the...
  
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 Julian Assange Arrest: What Are the Charges? The Metropolitan Police Service arrested Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Thursday morning, following a U.S. extradition request.
  
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 Trump Blames Dems for Border Troops Not Being 'Rough'  The military can't act "like they would normally act" at the border, President Donald Trump said.
  
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 Ocasio-Cortez Says GOP Putting Her 'In Danger'  "What's it going to take to stop?" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked Republicans.
  
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 Woman Killed After Being Fined Over Stalking Complaints "Our daughter took her concerns to the police and instead of being protected was treated like a criminal," Shana Grice's parents, Sharon Grice and Richard Green, said.
  
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 Ocasio-Cortez: Combat Climate Change to Curb Migration "The far-right loves to drum up fear & resistance to immigrants. But have you ever noticed they never talk about what‘s causing people to flee their homes in the first place?" said New York...
  
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 Ilhan Omar to Present Bill to End 'Hateful Muslim Ban' "It is time for Congress to act to overturn the Muslim Ban and stand against religious discrimination," a letter signed by more than 400 groups backing the No Ban Act says.
  
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 Canada to Refuse Refugees With Claims in U.S. "Stripping these human rights protections from refugee claimants is callous, but doing so through an undemocratic process is even worse," said the litigation committee chair of the Canadian...
  
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 Trump Blasts 'Unfair' Block on Stay in Mexico Policy "The Trump administration cannot simply ignore our laws in order to accomplish its goal of preventing people from seeking asylum in the United States," said the deputy director of the ACLU's...
  
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 Stephen Miller 'Trump's Real DHS Secretary,' Group Says “Whether it is John Kelly, Kirstjen Nielsen or whoever comes next, Trump’s real DHS secretary has always been Stephen Miller," United We Dream's advocacy director said.
  
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 Obama: Not Everyone Disturbed by Migration Is 'Racist' "If you're going to have a coherent, cohesive society, then everybody has to have some agreed-upon rules," the former president said.
  
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 New DHS Acting Chief Big Supporter of U.S. Aid  Kevin McAleenan said supporting the Northern Triangle countries would address the underlying problems that drive migration, smuggling and illicit trade.
  
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 Trump Would Give Nielsen Wake-Up Calls to Stop Migrants President Donald Trump reportedly demanded that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen take measures, including some of which were illegal, to stop all migrants from seeking asylum.
  
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 Time For Ilhan Documentary Shines Light On Omar's Rise "There is something special about her," documentary maker Norah Shapiro said of Ilhan Omar.
  
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 Ilhan Omar: Congress 'Sisterhood' Smashing Barriers "We’re creating good trouble, and we’re going to need one another," Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar said.
  
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 DHS Chief Says U.S. 'Out of Space' at the Border Immigration officials struggle with "huge backups to process folks into the country," Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said.
  
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 ACLU Launches Legal Bid to Block Trump's Border Wall “We’re going to court to ensure that President Trump’s desperate bid to fund his border wall with a bogus national emergency and taxpayer money fails," an ACLU staff attorney said.
  
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 Journalist Detained by ICE for a Year Demands Release “I miss my work and I miss being able to help my community,” journalist Manuel Duran said.
  
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 Stacey Abrams 'Thinking About' Running for White House Abrams, who lost Georgia's gubernatorial race in 2018, said that before she could decide on a White House run she had to decide whether to run for the Senate. 
  
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 Obama Says U.S. Headed Down ‘Dangerous’ Road “If we try to assert these very hard, fixed borders at a time when technology and information are borderless, not only will we fail but we’ll see greater conflict and clashes between people,”...
  
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 ICE Accused of Terrorizing Immigrants After Mass Raid "This is how ICE uses the money that funds the agency: to terrorize immigrant communities," said immigration advocacy group United We Dream.
  
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 U.S. Terrorist Watchlist Violates Constitution: Lawsuit “I can tell you that every American Muslim has either been on the list or has known somebody on the list,” Hassan Shibly, a lawyer with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, who is a plaintiff...
  
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 Migrant Children’s Health Being Put At ‘Risk’ In Texas The decision to move asylum seekers to tent shelters comes as the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency warns that it has reached its “breaking point.”
  
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 Trump's Immigration 'Cruelty Has Failed,' Castro Says  "The next president must start by reversing the cruel policies of the Trump administration ," Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro said in an interview with NPR.