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Immigration

Berks County Residential Center, July 19, 2019. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Courts & Law

ICE, Pa. courts push back on bids to free immigrant families in Berks Center due to COVID-19

As the coronavirus sweeps through congregate settings, calls have amplified to release immigrants held at family detention centers.

5 years ago

Locust Walk on the University of Pennsylvania campus. (Ximena Conde/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

‘I thought it was a hoax’: Pa. students, universities respond to Trump restrictions for international visas

A new Trump administration rule limiting online classes for international students has thrown the tens of thousands of students enrolled in Pa. universities into uncertainty.

5 years ago

In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, students walk near the Widener Library in Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The Ivy League school announced Monday, July 6, 2020, that as the coronavirus pandemic continues its freshman class will be invited to live on campus this fall, while most other undergraduates will be required learn remotely from home. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
Education

New rules: Foreign pupils must leave US if classes go online

New federal guidelines say international students will be forced to leave the U.S. or transfer to another college if their schools offer classes entirely online this fall.

5 years ago

Demonstrators stand along the road in front of the La Palma Correctional Center in Eloy on April 10, 2020. The event was one of several car rallies calling for the release of immigrants detained at the ICE facility during COVID-19.
NPR
Community

‘You can either be a survivor or die’: COVID-19 cases surge in ICE detention

More than 2,700 detainees nationwide have tested positive, according to ICE data, and the Eloy detention facility is among the hardest hit by the pandemic.

5 years ago

Protesters calling for the release of families held at the Berks Detention Center used a projector to illuminate the outside of Berks County Commissioner Michael Rivera’s home on Monday, June 29, 2020. (Anthony Orozco / PA Post)
Community
PA Post

Activists seeking closure of ICE detention facility turn focus to Berks County’s lone Latino commissioner

Shut Down Berks Coalition brings message to Commissioner Michael Rivera’s home during Monday night protest

5 years ago

In this Aug. 23, 2019 file photo, immigrants seeking asylum hold hands as they leave a cafeteria at the ICE South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Courts & Law

Judge: US must free migrant children from family detention

A federal judge ordered the release of children held with their parents in U.S. immigration jails and denounced the prolonged detention of families during the pandemic.

5 years ago

The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, early Monday, June 15, 2020.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Courts & Law

Supreme Court rules some asylum seekers cannot challenge removal

The high court's 7-2 ruling applies to people who fail their initial asylum screenings, making them eligible for quick deportation, or expedited removal.

5 years ago

Workers process chickens at the Lincoln Premium Poultry plant, Costco Wholesale's dedicated poultry supplier, in Fremont, Neb., Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
Radio Times

The food supply chain and its frontline workers

How has our food system withstood the pandemic? And what are the risks to essential workers in meat processing plants and farm fields?

Air Date: June 25, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 49:14
Claudia Martinez
Health

Medical deportation averted in case of Guatemalan patient at Jefferson Torresdale

Immigration advocates say the hospital would have been violating its ethical obligations to care for the man, injured in a traffic accident and uninsured.

5 years ago

Supporters of the LGBT wave their flag in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Radio Times
Courts & Law

Supreme Court decisions on LGBTQ rights, DACA and more

The Supreme Court announced landmark rulings on LGBTQ worker rights and DACA. We discuss those opinions and pending decisions on abortion, the electoral college, and more.

Air Date: June 23, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 48:58
Karina Gareginovna Ambartsoumian-Clough's employment card. (Courtesy of Karina Gareginovna Ambartsoumian-Clough)
Community
Broke in Philly

The future is uncertain for stateless people like me

Karina Clough, a stateless person and a DACA recipient under final removal proceedings, wants meaningful immigration reform. And she and others want it now.

5 years ago

(Wilfredo Lee/AP)
Politics & Policy

Trump administration extends visa ban to non-immigrants

The ban, while temporary, would amount to major restructuring of legal immigration if made permanent, a goal that had eluded the administration before the pandemic.

5 years ago

President Trump
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year

The new order comes as the administration continues to wrestle with high unemployment among American workers because of the coronavirus pandemic.

5 years ago

Cielo Mendez, 17, of Plainfield, N.J., who is a DACA recipient, (second from left with banner), marches next to Gabriel Henao, 7, and Kimberly Armas, 15, of Elizabeth, N.J., in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, outside of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

‘Dreamers,’ immigration advocates praise Supreme Court ruling keeping DACA in place

The high court ruled that the Trump administration acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” way when it moved to end DACA.

5 years ago

(Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP)
Courts & Law

Judge demands ICE better explain why it won’t release kids

A judge ordered the U.S. government to better explain why it hasn’t released some of the approximate 350 parents and children in three family detention centers.

5 years ago

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