Immigration

A detention center in Berks County has been operating in a licensure ‘limbo’ that could be resolved under the administration’s proposal.

The story illustrates the life-or-death stakes that can be inherent in immigration case law.

Doctors warn of poor health and rising costs they say will come from sweeping Trump administration changes that would deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid.

Philadelphia poet Sonia Sanchez read the entire poem for WHYY's CommonSpace in February 2017.

New Jersey is opposing the Trump administration’s effort to penalize immigrants who rely on public aid programs like food stamps.

The mass shootings in El Paso and Gilroy have horrified me. I won’t allow my fear to silence me. Instead, I will use it to resist and fight against white supremacy.

Los asesinatos en El Paso y Gilroy me han horrorizado. Pero no permitiré que mi miedo me silencie, lo utilice para resistir y luchar contra la supremacía blanca.

The change widens the definition of “public charge” to mean people here legally who get public benefits like Medicaid, food stamps, and housing vouchers.

Pennsylvania's governor says at least four children from his state were recently separated from their parents by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Trump administration rules that could deny green cards to immigrants who use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance are going into effect.

We'll get an update on child separations at the border, discuss the immigrant detention facility right here in Pa., and talk about the psychological consequences these have.

We talk about how low coffee prices are driving Central American farmers to migrate to the U.S. and with La Colombe's Todd Carmichael about the coffee business.

A 27-year-old Salvadoran woman detained by ICE at the Berks Family Residential Center was being deported — until she was allowed to make a call.

Philadelphia officials are urging action, amid reports that the Trump administration could lower refugee arrivals to nearly zero in 2020.

A former official in the civil rights office says the unit seems afraid to offend U.S. CBP and ICE. Meanwhile, the complaints of abuses of families continue to pile up.