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Immigration

(Jose F. Moreno/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

After critical report, Pa. police review their role in ICE deportations

Pennsylvania’s state police force is reviewing its interactions with the federal immigration and customs enforcement, in the wake of ...

7 years ago

Jose De La Cruz Ramirez, a gardener in Upper Bucks County, was criminally prosecuted before being deported to Mexico. (Courtesy of Linda Ammerman)
Courts & Law

From border-crosser to felon

The Trump administration encouraged prosecutors to seek felony charges against those who re-enter the U.S. after being deported.

7 years ago

Route I-81 near Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania (Jose F. Moreno/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Courts & Law

For cops who want to help ICE crack down on illegal immigration, Pennsylvania is a free-for-all

Without guidelines or oversight, some officers are using traffic stops to question Hispanics and turn over undocumented immigrants to ICE.

7 years ago

Listen 5:35
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

NewsWorks Tonight, April 13, 2018

Bill Cosby’s main accuser takes the stand in his sexual assault retrial. Data shows Philadelphia’s ICE field office is ...

Air Date: April 13, 2018

Listen 24:00
Anne Franco and her husband, Ludvin Franco, on their wedding day (Provided)
Courts & Law

In Pennsylvania, it’s open season on undocumented immigrants

ICE’s Philadelphia office is making more 'at-large' arrests of immigrants without criminal convictions than anywhere else in America.

7 years ago

Step Afrika! rehearses for its production “The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence.” (Zoe Read/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Step Afrika! tells Great Migration story through dance

With stomping feet, clapping hands and spoken word, the Step Afrika! dance company is in Wilmington this week to tell the story of the Great Migration.

7 years ago

Protesters angered by President Donald Trump's 2017 executive order that prevented refugees, visa and green card holders from entering the U.S. rally at Philadelphia International Airport. (Branden Eastwood/for WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

As refugee arrivals fall by two-thirds in Pa., program changes likely to further slow travel

Data from the midway point of this fiscal year show the U.S. and Philadelphia region are far off pace to reach the federal 45,000-refugee ceiling.

7 years ago

In this April 4, 2018 photo, the Zelaya siblings, from El Salvador, Nayeli, right, Anderson, center, and Daniela, huddle together on a soccer field, at the sports club where Central American migrants traveling with the annual
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Immigration update: the migrant caravan, DACA, and ICE crackdowns

Guests: Delphine Schrank, Maria Sacchetti We check in on the caravan of Central American migrants that was journe ...

Air Date: April 9, 2018

Listen 36:17
Attorney General Jeff Sessions at a roundtable meeting on sanctuary cities hosted by President Trump earlier this month.
(Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
Courts & Law

Sessions orders ‘zero tolerance’ policy for border crossers

His one-page order lacks specifics on how the policy will be carried out.

7 years ago

Jacinta Morales learned she was pregnant after she was processed into ICE detention. (Liz Jones/KUOW)
NPR
Health

Pregnant and detained

Dozens of members of Congress have called for a thorough investigation.

7 years ago

Left to right: Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis, Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite and U.S. President Donald Trump, hold a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House Tuesday.
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump calls for military forces on U.S.-Mexico border

President Trump says he wants to use military troops to help secure the U.S. border with Mexico.

7 years ago

The 1930 U.S. Census
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

On the U.S. census

Guests: Margo Anderson, Ari Berman, Josh Shapiro The Trump Administration has decided to include a question abou ...

Air Date: March 30, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 49:46
Ann Draemel engages her students in conversation during an intensive English course for international students at Temple University. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Education

With fewer foreign students taking intensive English classes, Philly universities pivot

Administrators of intensive English programs say a kaleidoscope of factors have contributed to the contraction — including the economy and the 'Trump factor.'

8 years ago

Listen 5:02
Attorney General Jeff Sessions at a roundtable meeting on sanctuary cities hosted by President Trump earlier this month.
(Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Sessions pushes to speed up immigration courts, deportations

The attorney general may also limit when judges can grant continuances, and who qualifies for asylum in the United States.

8 years ago

Gurbir Grewal, the former Bergen County prosecutor, has been confirmed as New Jersey's attorney general. He is the first Sikh in the nation to serve as a state attorney general.
Politics & Policy

N.J. joins coalition of states challenging census citizenship question

Asking people if they’re U.S. citizens will discourage immigrants from participating in the count, says New Jersey's attorney general.

8 years ago

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