Immigration
After immigration judge frees kids from 22-month detention, ICE fights to bring them back
On a video-conferencing screen at an immigration court in York County Prison, a 4-year-old boy appears, sitting in a white plastic chair ...
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Immigration crackdown reaches deep into New Jersey communities
New data reveals that more than 90 percent of the state’s municipalities have cases pending in immigration court, the fifth-largest cas ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Leanne: Overstaying her tourist visa to nurse family ties
“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY that looks at the per ...
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