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Immigration

Keith and Keren Byrne are pictured with their youngest child. (Courtesy of Keren Byrne)
Courts & Law

ICE to deport Irish father-of-three after a decade in Montco

Keith Byrne has lived in Pennsylvania for more than a decade and could be deported any minute. He’s one of an estimated 50,000 unauthorized Irish immigrants in the U.S.

7 years ago

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Miguel Martinez for Billy Penn
Community
Billy Penn

‘Lights for Liberty’ vigils, protests draw thousands rallying against ICE raids and border camps

Marchers said they were trying to “catch the attention of those who can fix broken immigration laws.”

7 years ago

Immigrant checked before board
Community

Unclear if ICE raids will impact Pa., but advocates say they breed fear regardless

Undocumented immigrants and organizations that assist them are bracing for potential raids this weekend by the office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

7 years ago

President Trump, flanked by Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross (left) and Attorney General William Barr, delivers remarks on citizenship and the census in the Rose Garden at the White House on Thursday.
(Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump orders agencies to share data on noncitizens

The order marks the latest effort to obtain the information despite a Supreme Court ruling that bars the administration from including the question on the 2020 census.

7 years ago

Paintings by Northeast High School students in the 'Immigrant Alphabet' art project hanging on MSB in 2017 (Danya Henninger/Billy Penn)
Money
Billy Penn

Philly immigrant earnings — and taxes paid — are up 13%, per new report

The region has one of the most stable foreign-born populations in the country.

7 years ago

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal (Miguel Martinez for WHYY, file)
Courts & Law

N.J. county defends ICE agreement after rebuke from state AG

Forty out of nearly 8,000 inmates processed at the county jail in 2018 were found to be undocumented immigrants and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

7 years ago

VisionQuest is trying to reopen its North Philadelphia location as housing for unaccompanied immigrant boys. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
The Why
Politics & Policy

Battle over immigrant youth center is bigger than Philly

VisionQuest wants to open a center that would house 60 unaccompanied immigrant teen boys. Why Philadelphia, immigrant advocates, and its own staff are pushing back.

Air Date: July 10, 2019

Listen 13:32
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

The border crisis continues

We discuss the continuing crisis at the Southern border and the dangerous overcrowding in migrant detention centers that was detailed in a recent government report.

Air Date: July 9, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 48:57
Beneath the sheer fabric of Asmaa Diab's
Arts & Entertainment

Displaced Iraqis and Syrians in Philly try to shift the ‘refugee narrative’ through art

The refugees of the “Friends, Peace, & Sanctuary” exhibitions want people to look past their scars of war and see them as creative members of American society.

7 years ago

Listen 3:39
(photo credit, Big Stocks)
Radio Times
Health

Compassion in medicine / the detention center crisis

We start the hour talking with U.S. Representative Madeleine Dean about her visit to migrant detentions centers and then, we discuss the role compassion plays in medicine.

Air Date: July 5, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 48:57
A naturalization ceremony of new U.S. citizens at the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas, Virginia. The U.S. citizenship oath today is 140 words. It wasn't until 1929 that the oath's text was standardized, and the oath was amended in 1952 to emphasize service to country as the U.S. faced a growing threat from the Soviet Union. (Shuran Huang/NPR)
NPR
Politics & Policy

How the U.S. citizenship oath came to be what it is today

If you are born in the U.S., citizenship is a birthright. But if you immigrate to this country, the work of the citizenship process culminates in the reciting of an oath.

7 years ago

Protesters found a way around the police barricade and blocked Philadelphia’s Fourth of July Parade. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Dozens arrested for protesting Trump immigration policies during Philadelphia July Fourth parade

The protest action was organized as part of a national “Never Again Week of Action,” which saw Jewish-American organizations orchestrate similar marches across the U.S.

7 years ago

A child holds a U.S. flag at a naturalization ceremony at the Wyckoff House Museum in Brooklyn, on June 14, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

DOJ still looking to add census citizenship question, official tells court

Amid tweets by Trump that he still wants the 2020 census to ask about citizenship, an official says the Justice Department has been told to find a way to make it happen.

7 years ago

In this file photo, VisionQuest appears for Judge Paula Patrick for a Zoning Board hearing, at City Hall, on May 23, 2019. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Courts & Law

North Philly center for immigrant minors stalled by Pa. appeals judge

A Pennsylvania appeals court has stayed the opening of a contested immigrant youth facility in North Philadelphia.

7 years ago

Berks County Residential Center. (Laura Benshoff/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Wolf administration: Only Washington can shut down Berks County immigrant detention center

“Governor Wolf urges the Trump Administration to shut this center down."

7 years ago

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