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Immigration

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Health

Campaign pushing Pa. to cover unauthorized children through state health insurance

Advocate says change can be accomplished simply: Remove 13 words in the current CHIP statute that exclude undocumented kids from eligibility.

8 years ago

Bryan Norris, founder of the Refugee Makers Project in Lancaster, holds two caftans, which creator Remmy Kasongo calls bubus.
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Budding clothing line provides lifeline for African refugee starting over in Lancaster

A small but growing clothing line from Lancaster, Pennsylvania is an unusual example of an African refugee being able to put to work skills he used back home.

8 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight, May 22, 2018

Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision on worker rights, will cause more labor disputes to move from the courts into private arbitrati ...

Air Date: May 22, 2018

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Paul Frame is an American citizen and husband of Ivan Martinez. The ACLU of Pennsylvania, Juntos, members from the immigrant and LGBTQ communities and allies gathered at the William Way LGBT Community Center in Center City, Philadelphia on May 22, to announce the federal filing of a legal complaint to end the unlawful detention of Jose “Ivan” Noe Nuñez Martinez, who has been in detention since Jan. 31, 2018 after ICE showed up to a routine marriage interview at USCIS. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

ACLU of Pa. pushing for release of gay immigrant who faces danger in Mexico

ICE agents arrested Jose “Ivan” Nuñez Martinez in January as he and his husband, Paul Frame, a U.S. citizen, were taking steps to apply for his green card.

8 years ago

Listen 2:06
a sign advertises a program that allows food stamp recipients to use their EBT cards to shop at a farmer's market
Politics & Policy

Philly officials: DHS proposal would penalize legal immigrants for kids’ public assistance

The latest immigration battle between the federal government and cities like Philadelphia: public assistance programs, such as food stamps and Medicaid.

8 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

U.S. and Philadelphia reject ‘sanctuary city’ compromise

Philly officials and the Justice Department are rejecting a federal judge's idea for settling their dispute over how the city deals with immigrants in the country illegally.

8 years ago

The U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo, file)
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

Pa., N.J. Republicans fueling petition to bring DACA to House vote

A group of GOP lawmakers might force Congressional leadership's hand and bring a DACA bill to the floor.

8 years ago

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(Tim Lambert/WITF)
Community

Labor shortages have Pa. farms turning to cumbersome visa program

Some farms are turning to the H-2A visa program, which allows foreign workers to come into the country for seasonal work.

8 years ago

Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M., speaks at a news conference calling for the passage of the Dream Act in January, along with House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. Lujan Grisham is one of five Democratic lawmakers, along with nine Republicans, receiving praise over immigration, in the form of paid ads, by the Koch network. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Breaking with Trump’s GOP, Koch brothers praise democrats on immigration

The Koch brothers are going rogue.

8 years ago

President Donald Trump listens during a roundtable on immigration policy in California, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, on Wednesday. (Evan Vucci/AP(
NPR
Politics & Policy

During roundtable, Trump calls some unauthorized immigrants ‘animals’

"We're taking people out of the country, you wouldn't believe how bad these people are. These aren't people. These are animals," the president said.

8 years ago

(Photo: Sam Kass)
Radio Times
Community

Alex Wagner on identity, ancestry and belonging

Guest: Alex Wagner Until the age of 12, ...

Air Date: May 15, 2018 10:00 am

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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.
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump administration doubles worksite investigations to combat illegal immigration

Immigration officials say they have launched more than 3,500 worksite investigations, already doubling the number of cases compared to the previous fiscal year.

8 years ago

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in January. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Homeland Security Secretary defends separating families of illegal border-crossers

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen defended the administration's "zero tolerance" policy.

8 years ago

Students attend the ceremony where Gov. Phil Murphy signed the financial aid law.
Politics & Policy

New Jersey opens state college financial aid to unauthorized immigrants

The legislation will help hundreds of immigrants who grew up in the state and attended high school in New Jersey for at least three years.

8 years ago

Central American migrants look through the border wall near the ocean in Tijuana, Mexico, in April.
NPR
Community

Sessions says ‘zero tolerance’ for illegal border crossers, vows to divide families

"If you cross this border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you. It's that simple," said Sessions.

8 years ago

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