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Immigration

 Lillie Williams and Jonatan Palacios stand outside the offices of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in West Philadelphia after completing an interview to determine the legitimacy of their marriage. (Laura Benshoff / WHYY)
Courts & Law

After marrying U.S. citizens, undocumented immigrants coming out of the shadows attract ICE scrutiny

Marriage tests couples in any number of ways. Lillie Williams and Jonatan Palacios, both 27, have just spent about an hour being q ...

8 years ago

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 DACA recipients discuss the impact the program has had on their lives at City Hall Tuesday, five years to the day since it was implemented. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law

With Obama DACA protections in jeopardy, young immigrants still hold fast to dreams

Five years ago, the Obama administration launched Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The program, which temporarily allows yo ...

8 years ago

 Will Gonzalez with the nonprofit community organization Ceiba introduces Programa Adelante at Finanta, another nonprofit organization, in North Philadelphia. (Laura Benshoff / WHYY)
Money

Paving way to citizenship, new Philly program offers eligible immigrants financial tools

More than 90 percent of all Latinos with lawful permanent status in the United States say they would become citizens if they could, accor ...

8 years ago

 Wendy Osorio Martinez sits with her 3-year-old son, Diego Rivera Osorio in a booth at Plaza Azteca in Wyomissing, Berks County. (Emily Cohen for NewsWorks)
Courts & Law

Judge frees mom, toddler from Berks immigrant detention center after 22 months

A mother from Honduras and her 3-year-old son are free after nearly two years in an immigrant detention center in Berks County, Pennsylva ...

8 years ago

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 President Donald Trump, flanked by Sen. Tom Cotton, R- Ark., left, and Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, during the unveiling of legislation that would place new limits on legal immigration. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

The truth about immigration policy is often not as exciting as the fight

The minute I heard President Trump’s new immigration proposal included a provision that would prioritize people who spoke English, ...

8 years ago

 FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2017 file photo, people carry posters during a rally against President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority nations, in New York's Times Square. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)

Confusion rises over who is ‘eligible’ under Trump’s partial travel ban

The Department of Homeland Security is still developing guidelines for how a partial stay on travel from six Muslim-majority and refugees ...

8 years ago

 Syrians shop at the Hamadiyah market, or souk in Arabic, that was named after the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II, in the Old City of Damascus in May. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, file)
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

Alia Malek challenges us to reimagine Syrian-American

News about Syria stresses geopolitics, so it takes some effort to find an article remidning us that Syria is an actual country with people living there, and dying there. 

8 years ago

 Mayor Jim Kenney and  City Solicitor Sozi Pedro  Tulante (right) talk about Philadelphia's policy on unauthorized immigrants. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Philadelphia complying with immigration regulations, city tells U.S.

The city of Philadelphia has notified Department of Justice officials that it’s in compliance with federal regulations on undocumen ...

8 years ago

Listen
 The Trump administration intends to continue the deferred action for childhood arrivals program that protects unauthorized immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. (AP file photo)

Area ‘dreamers’ hail Trump change of heart, worry about parents in danger of deportation

After the Trump administration’s decision to continue the deferred action for childhood arrivals program intended to protect unauth ...

8 years ago

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 Javier Flores has been taking sanctuary in Arch Street Methodist Church for 7 months. Advocates are road-tripping to VT demanding USCIS hear his case. (Katie Colaneri / WHYY)

Seven months after immigrant finds sanctuary in Philly church, supporters start trek for help

Nearly seven months after an unauthorized immigrant from Mexico took sanctuary in a Philadelphia church, advocates are hitting the road i ...

8 years ago

 Protesters march from Lafayette Park near the White House in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017, during a rally protesting the immigration policies of President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Appeals court deals blow to Trump administration travel ban

A federal appeals court dealt another blow to President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban targeting six-Muslim majority countries o ...

8 years ago

 Pierrot Mervilier, center rear, hugs a girl that did not wish to be identified, living in the U.S. with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) after she and her family spoke to members of the media, Monday, May 22, 2017, in Miami. The Trump administration is going to extend humanitarian protections for tens of thousands of Haitian immigrants who have been living in the United States since a deadly earthquake. Administration officials said the TPS for roughly 50,000 Haitians will expire in December. A final decision about the long-term fate of those immigrants will be decided at a later date. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Trump admin to extend protections for Haitians 6 months

The Trump administration said Monday it will extend until January a humanitarian program that has allowed roughly 58,000 Haitians to live ...

8 years ago

Leanne, who overstayed a tourist visa from the United Kingdom to take care of her sick father, and her dog Lily at their home in Chester County. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Leanne: Overstaying her tourist visa to nurse family ties

“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY that looks at the per ...

8 years ago

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Instructor Nora Litz (right) listens as Sophia, 9, participates in a discussion during a workshop at Philadelphia nonprofit Mighty Writers.
Courts & Law

Ivonne and Sophia: Learning to cope with fears of deportation

“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY that looks at the personal immigration stories of individuals who are living in the Philadelphia region without legal status.

8 years ago

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Ody, from Indonesia, is losing his sight because of diabetes and is caught in a vicious cycle. He cannot work because of his blindness and can't afford the medical care that would restore his sight.
Courts & Law

Ody: Returning to Indonesia 15 years later, and nearly blind

“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY/NewsWorks that looks at the personal ...

8 years ago

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