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Immigration

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_
NPR
Courts & Law

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.

7 years ago

Dr. David S. Glosser speaks in support of the U.S. Resettlement Program. He is joined by former refugees (from left) Gin Sum, who fled religious persecution in Burma, Bdour Hussein, who fled the war in Syria, and Sozi Tulante, who came to Philadelphia as a political refugee in 1983.
Politics & Policy

Local refugee groups, White House adviser’s uncle call on Trump administration to accept more refugees

Before the United States had a refugee resettlement policy, the Glosser family fled grinding poverty and ...

7 years ago

Vehicles leave the Port Isabel Detention Center, which holds detainees of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Los Fresnos, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, file)
Politics & Policy

Trump administration moves to detain migrant families longer

The Trump administration on Thursday moved to abandon a longstanding court settlement that limits how long immigrant children can be kept locked up.

7 years ago

The dome of the state Capitol in Trenton, New Jersey
Politics & Policy

New Jersey updating state policy on ICE cooperation

Law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and civil rights groups are providing input on the new guidance that should be announced within the next month.

7 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight, September 5, 2018

A Germantown church is providing sanctuary for two families, from Jamaica and Honduras. On the eve of the Delaware primary, we look at th ...

Air Date: September 5, 2018

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The Thompson family who moved to the U.S. from Jamaica to escape threats from gangs has lived in South Jersey for 12 years. After Oneita and her husband Clive received deportation notices, they moved into sanctuary at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Two more families choose sanctuary in a Philly church over separation, deportation

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a policy of avoiding arrests in “sensitive locations,” which include houses of worship.

7 years ago

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Ericka Ames, center, of Nicaragua recites the Oath of Allegiance during a naturalization ceremony at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Miami. The backlog of citizenship applications has increased dramatically under the Trump administration. (Wilfredo Lee/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

The wait to become a U.S. citizen lengthens

There has been a backlog of citizen applications for years. But the backlog has increased dramatically since President Trump took office.

7 years ago

Juntos executive director Erika Almiron shows a map of the area where residents have signed up for the advocacy group's Community Resistance Zone program. (Darryl C. Murphy for WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Courts & Law

As Philly ends ICE deal, immigrant advocacy group works to monitor law enforcement

Pressure from protesters calling for an end of ICE and meetings with activists helped convince Mayor Jim Kenney to end the arrangement.

7 years ago

Second- year surgery resident Anna Mydlowska (far left) with her team of residents, attending physicians and nurses on the trauma unit at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. (Courtesy of Anna Mydlowska)
Community

Pa. hospitals rely on J-1 visas to fill vital roles, but fewer are applying

Among the 300,000 active visas, about 11,000 belong to medical residents who work and train in U.S. hospitals.

7 years ago

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In this Monday, July 23, 2018, file photo, Immigrant seeking asylum Ildra Medreano wears an ankle monitor at a Catholic Charities facility not long after she was reunited with her son in San Antonio. Federal authorities' shift away from separating immigrant families crossing into the U.S. illegally now means that many parents and children are quickly released from custody only to be fitted with electronic monitoring devices, a practice that has spiked in recent years but which both the government and advocacy groups oppose for different reasons. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Courts & Law

As more immigrants wear monitors, effectiveness is disputed

Federal authorities’ shift away from separating immigrant families caught in the U.S. illegally now means that many parents and chi ...

7 years ago

On Jan. 31, when Jose “Ivan” Nuñez Martinez and Paul Frame showed up in Philadelphia for a mandatory interview to adjust Martinez's immigration status, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested him. (Provided)
Courts & Law

Chester County man, arrested while seeking green card, to be deported

Martinez has been detained in York since his January arrest in Philadelphia as he was interviewing for a green card with his husband, U.S. citizen Paul Frame.

7 years ago

In this Tuesday, July 3, 2018, photo, a Pakistani recruit, 22, who was recently discharged from the U.S. Army, holds an American flag as he poses for a picture. The Army said in court documents it has reinstated more than 30 immigrant recruits and reservists whose contracts had been terminated. (Mike Knaak/AP)
NPR
Community

Army reinstates dozens of discharged immigrant recruits and reservists

The U.S. Army has reinstated more than 30 recruits it had forcibly discharged.

7 years ago

Protesters gathered in the Capitol to call on Wolf for further action. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Activists renew call to shut down Berks immigrant detention center

Pennsylvania DHS already declined to renew the center's federal license, but a federal judge ordered it reinstated.

7 years ago

A woman packs crates at a  weekly free food pantry in the Bronx in New York City. The Trump administration is considering penalizing legal immigrants for using government benefits such as Medicaid and food stamps
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump administration moves to penalize immigrants for using government benefits

For months, the Trump administration has been taking steps to limit how much immigrants use welfare programs.

7 years ago

About 2,000 union members rally at the Great Plaza at Penn's Landing to protest the separation of immigrant families.
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

In Philly, union members protest immigration policy

Thousands of union leaders and member rally at Penn's Landing to oppose ICE policies

7 years ago

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