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Immigration

 David Losia, 21, cuts coconuts for the family pigs in front of his family house flooded by the rising tides where cinder blocks are used as a makeshift walkway in Funafuti, Tuvalu. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
The Pulse
Health

Legal recognition lags as expected ‘climate refugee’ population grows

People migrate for many different reasons – war, persecution, poverty. Here’s another reason: climate change. A 2015 ...

9 years ago

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The Taweels arrived in the U.S. in January as Syrian refugees. Shortly after, they went to Einstein’s pediatric clinic for their first comprehensive health exam in the U.S. Dr. Raghava Kavalla walks with the two boys, 6-year-old Ghassan and four-year-old Anas, to an exam room. (Elana Gordon/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

For these Syrian refugees, smiles and tears fill the doctor’s office

For four years now, the pediatric wing at Einstein Medical Center in North Philadelphia has blocked off Thursday mornings to meet with re ...

9 years ago

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Street graffiti with an anti-gay message covers part of a privacy wall in a neighborhood in Jamaica. Advocates say much of the homophobia is fueled by a nearly 150-year-old anti-sodomy law that bans anal sex as well as by dancehall reggae performers who flaunt anti-gay themes. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
The Pulse
Health

After fleeing violence in Jamaica, gay man seeks refuge in America

Anti-gay prejudice is written into Jamaican law. A colonial-era rule criminalizes male intercourse and LGBT activists say talk of jail ti ...

9 years ago

Listen 11:06
 Akbar Hossain, age 26, is a Muslim immigrant from Bangladesh, a P.D. Soros Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and a recent appointee to the Norristown Planning Commission. (Courtesy of Penn Law)
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Community

What does a Muslim immigrant look like? The best of America

How does a Muslim boy born in Bangladesh end up at the University of Pennsylvania Law School? By winning the lottery, of cours ...

9 years ago

 President Donald Trump gestures as he steps off Air Force One at the Palm Beach International Airport, Friday, March 3, 2017, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump signs new travel ban targeting those seeking new visas [updated]

[updated 11:51am] President Donald Trump on Monday signed a new version of his controversial travel ban, aiming to withst ...

9 years ago

 Widener University freshman Hannah Guth protests Pa. House Bill 14 outside of state representative Stephen Barrar's office in Chadd's Ford. (Laura Benshoff/WHYY)

Pa. students protest anti-sanctuary campus bill

On Thursday, college students rallied outside of nine state representative’s offices across Pennsylvania today, calling for them to ...

9 years ago

 La Comuinidad Hispana in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, hosted an information session for undocumented immigrants, many of them agricultural workers. (Image via Google Maps)

Chesco unauthorized immigrants told to make a family plan in case of deportation

Latinos living in Pennsylvania’s rural southern Chester County packed a recent community meeting in Kennett Square to discuss their ...

9 years ago

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 Immigrants who participated in A Day Without Immigrants gather a Thomas Paine park for a rally. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

On ‘Radio Times’: Taking a 10-year-old child over the Mexico-U.S. border ‘was just a matter of surviving’

Earlier this week the Department of Homeland Security released plans to ramp up the deportation of undocumented immigrants. Thursday̵ ...

9 years ago

 Visitors view the Statue of Liberty during a ferry ride to Liberty Island in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
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Politics & Policy

Targeting of nationalities and not individuals is why Trump’s travel ban fails

There is a general consensus in the U.S. that we need to protect ourselves and not allow people who wish us harm to pass through our bord ...

9 years ago

 President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

DHS weighed Nat Guard for immigration roundups [updated]

The Trump administration considered a proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants, ...

9 years ago

New citizens wait to take the oath of allegiance during a naturalization ceremony in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)

Quandary over U.S. travel policy spurs rush for naturalization

As uncertainty continues around President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban, those with green cards are flocking to immigrati ...

9 years ago

Protesters march from Lafayette Park near the White House in Washington

Appeals court refuses to reinstate Trump travel ban [updated]

A federal appeals court refused Thursday to reinstate President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nat ...

9 years ago

Hundreds of people march down a street

Stress stemming from fear of raids, deportation appears to influence immigrants’ health

New research is looking into how deportation and immigration enforcement actions affect health. University of Michigan researchers ...

9 years ago

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A truck drives near the Mexico-U.S. border fence. Sens. John McCain and Chris. Coons formally introduced a bill that would grant permanent legal status to undocumented immigrants known as “Dreamers,” and start bolstering security along the U.S.-Mexico border. (AP file photo)
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Politics & Policy

The Mongols are coming! The Mongols are coming!

Donald Trump’s wall is sure to become a geo-political trivia question, which will likely be phrased, “What humongous ego tha ...

9 years ago

Cesar Espinosa
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Politics & Policy

A view of Trump’s wall from our neighbors to the south

During a recent vacation week in Playa del Carmen, a tourist town 30 miles south of the Cancun airport, I chatted with dozens of locals, ...

9 years ago

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