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.

  
 World
 Father Dies Trying to Cross U.S.-Canadian Border to Reunite With Daughter Wilson Reynoso Vega, 32, died while trying to cross the U.S.-Canadian border to join his 11-year-old daughter, who was living with her mother in Philadelphia.
  
 U.S.
 Video of 2020 Candidate Joe Biden Hugging His Wife Divides Opinions Online "Creepy Joe strikes again!" Trump supporter Kaya Jones said of a video of the former vice president embracing his wife, Jill Biden.
  
 U.S.
 Border Agent Accused of Hitting Migrant With Car Called Migrants ‘Subhuman’ In one text, Border Patrol Agent Matthew Bowen said, “PLEASE let us take the gloves off Trump!” 
  
 World
 Palestinian Refugees Say U.S. Policies, Aid Cuts Bolster 'Right of Return' “The more they put pressure on us and say this is not our land, the more enthusiastic we become to get our land back," said one Palestinian refugee living in Beirut.
  
 U.S.
 Thousands of Americans Cross Into Mexico for Affordable Treatment Each Year The savings for those who travel south of the border for treatment can be as high as 40 to 70 percent, Patients Without Borders CEO Josef Woodman said.
  
 U.S.
 Trump Admin Planning for Major Surge in Detention of Migrant Children The Trump administration appears to expect to take as many as 225,000 immigrant children into custody over the next five years.
  
 U.S.
 Force Trump Hotels to Take in Homeless Asylum Seekers, Says Florida Mayor "To bring hundreds of people here every week without providing the necessary resources to house and feed them is inhumane," Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen said.
  
 U.S.
 Trump’s Immigration Plans Will See U.S. Money ‘Burned’: Former DHS Official “We do have a crisis at the border, but it’s a refugee crisis. Not a crisis of illegal crossings,” the former senior DHS official said.
  
 U.S.
 Missouri Follows Alabama as Senate Passes Eight-Week Abortion Ban  Mike Parson, Missouri's governor, is expected to sign the bill, having tweeted before the vote: "It's time to make Missouri the most Pro-Life state in the country!"
  
 U.S.
 Hispanic Caucus Members Demand Results of Migrant Child Border Deaths Probe “DHS still hasn’t completed these investigations, which could shed meaningful light onto the resources needed at the border and prevent these types of deaths from happening again,” said...
  
 U.S.
 Alabama Abortion Ban Could See Doctors Face More Prison Time Than Rapists "We're telling a 12-year-old girl who, through incest and rape, is pregnant, we are telling her that she doesn't have a choice," state Senator Rodger Smitherman said.
  
 World
 Pilot Accuses Senior Airline Instructor of Sexual Harassment  She said the senior captain asked her "how I coped with my husband living away and whether I didn't need to have sex every day."
  
 U.S.
 Senator Lindsey Graham to Push Bill to Hike Detention of Migrant Children  "We got a perfect storm now because of broken laws," the Republican senator said.
  
 U.S.
 Churches Transformed Into Shelters for Influx of Migrant Families To handle the surge of asylum seekers arriving at the southern border, churches have opened their doors for those in need of shelter.
  
 U.S.
 White House Reportedly Planned to Arrest Thousands of Migrant Parents, Kids “They wanted 10 cities, thousands of targets,” a Homeland Security Department insider told The Washington Post.
  
 U.S.
 Ocasio-Cortez Shuts Down Claims Linking Spike in Celibacy to Empowerment "Maybe it’s because far too many people relied on the disempowerment and silence of women to not be ‘celibate’ in the first place," said Ocasio-Cortez.
  
 World
 Julian Assange: What Will Sweden's Move to Reopen Rape Case Mean for U.S.? Sweden has reopened an investigation into a rape allegation made against the WikiLeaks founder in 2010.
  
 U.S.
 Harris Warns Against Bid to Keep Courts From Blocking Immigration Policies “This is a blatant affront to our system of checks and balances and must be stopped,” said Senator Kamala Harris.
  
 U.S.
 On Mother's Day, Many Moms Are Still Separated From Children "There are moms out there who will not get to experience this day...Mothers who don't know if they will ever get to see their children again," said activist Meena Harris.
  U.S.
 Trump Administration Blamed for Cancellation of Mother's Day Event "Families that have been planning for weeks to celebrate Mother’s Day by being able to see their long-estranged loved ones are left in the lurch—their basic humanitarian needs to be with their...
  
 U.S.
 2020 Budget Seeks to Slash Funding for Border Drug Detection by 90 Percent “We're balancing a very complex mission that's mutlifaceted,” said Robert Perez, deputy commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.
  
 U.S.
 Who Was Lucy Wills? Prenatal Care Pioneer Celebrated in Google Doodle Lucy Wills changed the face of preventive prenatal care for women everywhere.
  
 U.S.
 U.S. Helped 12,587 Syrian Refugees in 2016. In 2018, 62. Now What, in 2019? As fewer Syrian refugees are allowed into the U.S., the conflict in Syria “continues to burn,” said the vice president of policy and advocacy for the International Rescue Committee.
  
 U.S.
 2019 Border Apprehensions Break 10-Year Record ‘Only Seven Months In’ U.S. Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost called for greater “consequences” for migrants caught crossing into the U.S. outside of designated ports of entry.
  
 U.S.
 Trump Jokes About Shooting Migrants at the Border at Florida Rally  "Shoot em'!" a crowd member suggested at a Florida rally after President Donald Trump asked how the U.S. can stop migrants arriving at the border.
  
 U.S.
  Trump Administration Wants the Public to Comment on Border Wall Proposals “It’s a waste of money,” one social media user said in response to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency’s request for public comment.
  
 U.S.
 Ocasio-Cortez: Men Behind ‘Heartbeat’ Bill Don't Understand Women's Bodies  "There are a TON of ways this law ignores basic biology," Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said.
  
 U.S.
 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wonders What Trump May Be Hiding In Tax Returns "Wouldn't you think someone who personally lost over a BILLION dollars [might] be vulnerable to shady activity to get out of that hole?" New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said.
  
 U.S.
 Caged Child on Capitol Lawn Marks Anniversary of Family Separation Practice “We want the families that are in detention and who have been separated to know we haven't forgotten them,” said Jess Morales Rocketto, who chairs the immigration advocacy group Families Belong...
  
 U.S.
 'Caravan' of Americans Crossing Canadian Border for Affordable Medical Care A group of Minnesotans with diabetes said they were traveling north for five hours to buy insulin for a tenth of what the drug costs in the U.S.
  
 U.S.
 Washington Post Readers Slam Steve Bannon Column “Why would anyone give this maniac a platform?” one social media user asked.
  
 Tech & Science
 Ancient Egyptian Tomb Discovered Near Giza Pyramids Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities said the discovery should showcase Egypt's "true image" and "power" to the world.