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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Immigration

Central American migrants, part of a caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, move on the road in Escuintla, Chiapas State, Mexico, Saturday, April 20, 2019. Thousands of migrants in several different caravans have been gathering in Chiapas in recent days and weeks. (Moises Castillo/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Frustration grows among migrants in Mexico as support fades

The outpouring of aid that once greeted Central American migrants as they trekked in caravans through southern Mexico has been drying up.

7 years ago

In this Jan. 24, 2019, file photo, the Supreme Court is seen at sunset in Washington. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Accuracy at core of Supreme Court case over census question

The fight over the census question is the latest over immigration-related issues between Democratic-led states and advocates for immigrants and the White House administration.

7 years ago

Some detainees at the Karnes County Residential Center in Karnes City, Texas, went on a hunger strike last year. There have been at least six hunger strikes at detention centers in the first three months of 2019 alone. (Eric Gay/AP)
NPR
Health

Hunger strikes at ICE detention centers spread as parole, bond are denied

It was at least the sixth hunger strike at a detention center in the first three months of 2019 alone.

7 years ago

Patience Bulus speaks with Professor Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob in his office at Dickinson College. (Rachel McDevitt/WITF)
Education
PA Post

Boko Haram stalled her education. Five years later, she’s starting over in central Pa.

"Whenever I find something is going to discourage me, I would just pray, and then believe that everything is going to be all right."

7 years ago

Yo-Yo Ma brought his Bach Project to the sister cities of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The project uses the music of Johann Sebastian Bach to explore connections between cultures. (Lauren A. Terrazas/Texas Public Radio)
NPR
Community

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma plays Bach in shadow of border crossing

The world-renowned cellist brought his Bach Project to the sister cities of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on Saturday.

7 years ago

In this April 5, 2019 photo, President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable on immigration and border security at the U.S. Border Patrol Calexico Station in Calexico, Calif. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Trump sanctuary city idea could help some immigrants

Trump's proposed policy could end up doing the migrants a favor by placing them in locations that make it easier to put down roots and stay in the country.

7 years ago

President Trump said on Twitter that he is considering sending immigrants in the country illegally to so-called
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump threatens to send detained immigrants to ‘sanctuary cities’ as retaliation

President Trump said that he is strongly considering sending detained immigrants in the country illegally to so-called "sanctuary cities" to try and punish Democrats.

7 years ago

Central American migrants, part of the caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, move on a road in Tapachula, Chiapas State, Mexico, Thursday, March 28, 2019. A caravan of about 2,500 Central Americans and Cubans is currently making its way through Mexico's southern state of Chiapas. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Immigration influx: past and present

First, President Trump is shaking up his immigration enforcement staff. Then, the history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and it's role in the immigration influx.

Air Date: April 10, 2019 10:00 am

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President Trump repeated his false claim that the Obama administration had a policy of separating families at the border. (Evan Vucci/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Fact check: Trump wrongly states Obama administration had child separation policy

Trump's false claim that child separations were carried out by the Obama administration has been frequently refuted.

7 years ago

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents gather before serving a employment audit notice at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Los Angeles in January.
Courts & Law

Immigration agents arrest 123 in 14 New Jersey counties

Those arrested range in age from 19 to 56 and included 41 nationals of Mexico, 24 from Guatemala, 16 from Ecuador and 14 from Honduras.

7 years ago

In this March 5, 2019 file photo, Ruth Aracely Monroy walks with her sons in Tijuana, Mexico. After requesting asylum in the United States, the family was returned to Tijuana to wait for their hearing in San Diego. (Gregory Bull/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Judge blocks Trump’s asylum policy but delays enforcement

A U.S. judge decided Monday to block the Trump administration's policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico as they wait for an immigration court to hear their cases.

7 years ago

About 50 people attended a Spanish-language information session about Philadelphia's new municipal ID program at Holy Innocents Roman Catholic Church in North Philadelphia on Sunday, April 7, 2019. (Natalie Piserchio for WHYY)
Community

‘It’s for everyone:’ Philly tries to dispel worries about ID program in immigrant communities

“We want to make sure that in the streets, people don’t think that this is an ID only for immigrants,” ID program director Amy Eusebio told a crowd in North Philly.

7 years ago

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, left, listens to President Donald Trump, right, speaks to members of the media after Trump signed an executive order to end family separations, during an event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 20, 2018.
Politics & Policy

Kirstjen Nielsen resigns from post as Secretary of Homeland Security

President Donald Trump says he's accepted the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. Trump announced the resignation in a tweet on Sunday.

7 years ago

Good Neighbor Settlement House in Brownsville, Texas, is helping recently released migrants by offering them a meal, shower and some new clothes before journeying up north to await their day in immigration court. (Eric Gay/AP Photo)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Shelters and city governments scramble to help migrants in the Rio Grande Valley

More than 76,000 people were apprehended or surrendered on the Southern border in February and administration officials project that number would surpass 100,000 for March.

7 years ago

Merari Calderon, of El Salvador, lines up with her father, Alexander Calderon, left, to cross into the U.S. to begin the process of applying for asylum Thursday, July 26, 2018, near the San Ysidro port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico (Gregory Bull/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

U.S. wants 2 years to ID migrant kids separated from families

The Trump administration says the task is more laborious than previous efforts because the children are no longer in government custody.

7 years ago

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