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The Journey for Justice bus visits Philadelphia Friday as part of a 50-city journey to raise awareness of the temporary protected status that's in danger of dissolution. (Laura Benshoff/WHYY)

Caravan wheels into Philly on heels of court victory on temporary protected status

Journey for Justice travelers call ruling a relief but say Congress must ultimately decide whether U.S. will harbor immigrants from dangerous parts of the world.

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In this Monday, March 12, 2018, file photo, supporters of temporary protected status immigrants hold signs and cheer at a rally outside of a federal courthouse in San Francisco. A judge on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, blocked the Trump administration from ending protections. (Jeff Chiu/AP Photo, File)

Courts & Law

Migrants embrace ruling that keeps temporary status for now

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants got temporary relief after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from moving ahead with its plans.

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Thousands could be deported as government targets asylum mills’ clients

More than 13,500 immigrants who were granted asylum status years ago are facing possible deportation.

7 years ago

V journalist Neha Mahajan could lose her work permit if the Trump administration ends a special program for the spouses of H-1B guest workers.
Gunjesh Desai/Courtesy of Neha Mahajan

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High-skilled immigrants call out the Trump administration’s ‘hypocrisy’

The Trump administration says it wants to move to a "merit-based" immigration system — one that gives priority to immigrants who speak English and are highly educated.

7 years ago

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said a proposed rule being submitted for public comment is designed to ensure that immigrants

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Trump administration will seek to limit green cards for immigrants needing public aid

For months, the Trump administration has been taking steps to limit immigrants' access to welfare programs.

7 years ago

A naturalization ceremony takes place at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service in Philadelphia. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY, file)

Community

Philly and Newark, N.J., rank among best places for immigrants to live

A new study looked at measures such as hiring bilingual staff, doing outreach in immigrant communities, and encouraging participation in the economy and civic life.

7 years ago

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Philadelphia City Councilwoman Maria Quinones Sanchez hears testimony on her bill, which would authorize the city to issuye municipal identification cards.

Politics & Policy

Philly ID program explores partnerships with libraries and prisons

Philadelphia moved closer to creating a municipal ID program Tuesday, as a City Council committee advanced an amended bill spelling out how residents can qualify for the cards

7 years ago

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Immigration authorities have been skipping a step in the process: When they served notices to appear in court, they routinely left the court date blank. Because of that omission and a recent Supreme Court decision, tens of thousands of deportation cases could be delayed, or tossed out altogether. (Liam James Doyle/NPR)

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Supreme Court ruling means thousands of deportation cases may be tossed out

A seemingly minor technicality has big implications.

7 years ago

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks about the new limit on refugees to the media Monday at the State Department in Washington. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

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Politics & Policy

U.S. to limit the number of refugees allowed entry to 30,000, down from 45,000

Setting an annual ceiling in a fiscal year does not guarantee that all of them will enter the U.S.

7 years ago

People listen as names are read off a list of who will cross into the United States to begin the process of applying for asylum Thursday, July 26, 2018, near the San Ysidro port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico. As the Trump administration faced a court-imposed deadline Thursday to reunite thousands of children and parents who were forcibly separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, asylum seekers continue to arrive to cities like Tijuana, hoping to plead their cases with U.S. authorities. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

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Seeking asylum

Guests: Ayodele Gansallo, David Glosser, Lee Gelernt To qualify for asylum in the United States, you have to prov ...

Air Date: September 18, 2018 10:00 am

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Rabbi Linda Holtzman, center, led a Tashlich ceremony in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. (Darryl C. Murphy for WHYY)

Community

In Philly, ‘Abolish ICE’ protests meet the Jewish high holidays

In Philadelphia, demonstrators gathered Sunday to use a Jewish tradition to protest ICE’s enforcement of immigration policy and urge the agency to repent.

7 years ago

Asylum seekers line up at the San Ysidro port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico. The ACLU announced today a preliminary agreement with the Trump administration to allow some parents already in the U.S. but separated from their children at the border to apply for asylum.
(Gregory Bull/AP)

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Politics & Policy

Agreement would allow separated families to seek asylum in U.S.

The American Civil Liberties Union says it reached an agreement overnight with the Trump administration regarding the future of families separated at the Southwest border.

7 years ago

This undated file photo provided by HHS' Administration for Children and Families shows the shelter used to house unaccompanied foreign children in Tornillo, Texas. The U.S. government says the West Texas tent shelter will remain open through the end of the year. A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, that the facility will be expanded to 3,800 beds from its initial capacity of 360 beds. (HHS' Administration for Children and Families via AP, File)

Politics & Policy

Government to expand, extend Texas tent shelter for children

The U.S. government will expand its tent shelter for immigrant minors crossing the southwest border to 3,800 beds and keep it open through the end of this year.

7 years ago

Attorney General Jeff Sessions outlines Trump administration policies as he speaks to new immigration judges, in Falls Church, Va., Monday, Sept. 10, 2018. Immigration judges work for the Justice Department and are not part of the Judicial branch of government. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

Courts & Law

Sessions: Immigration judges must be efficient with backlog

Speaking to the group of 44 new judges, Sessions told them they must keep "our federal laws functioning effectively.

7 years ago

Juan Valiente Velazquez's phone shows a picture of his son, Derickson, who remains in a youth shelter in New York. They were separated by the Border Patrol in Texas in May. Velazquez was deported to Guatemala. Derickson calls his parents three times each week. (John Burnett/NPR_

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Searching for deported parents in Guatemala, while children wait in the U.S.

The ACLU and Guatemalan immigrant advocates are fanning out across the country to find dozens of parents who were deported from the U.S. without their children.

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