Immigration
19 pieces
Blue America Stands Proudly, Strongly With New Immigrants
Moral America to ICE: "¡Nunca Aqui!" - Not In Our Community! New York, N.Y. When my family came to America twelve generations and four hundred years ago, they stepped off…
Chicago Furniture Bank Founder on Young Global Leadership
By Andrew Witherspoon, 2019 Luce 24 Under 24 Award Recipient Chicago , IL. Young global leadership is critical today because younger generations not only have the most at…
STOP Fake Migrant Crisis with For-Profit Prisons, Concentration Camps
New York, N.Y. The Stewardship Report calls for an immediate STOP to Donald Trump's fake migrant crisis and the resulting number of immigrants being separated from their…
Trump's Threatened Mass Deportation: What's So, What's Not
Washington, D.C. On Monday evening, President Trump tweeted that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal ali…
U.S. House Passes Emergency Funding Bill for Migrant Care Crisis
Washington, D.C. It took last-minute changes and a full-court press by top Democratic leaders, but the House passed with relative ease Tuesday a $4.5 billion emergency bo…
Children ‘Young as One’ Involved in U.S. Separation of Migrant Families
New York, N.Y. The current policy in the United States of separating “extremely young children” from their asylum-seeker or migrant parents along the country’s southern b…
Detention of Unaccompanied Minors at U.S. Entry Nothing New
Washington, D.C. When a 12-year-old boy traveled to the United States from Poland, looking for his mother in New York City, he was put into detention. The unaccompanied m…
Poem: For Emma Lazarus - And All Who Remember
ForFor Emma Lazarus (And all who remember) Take back your tired and your poor. We do not want them anymore. Emma does not understand the real story of our land. Keep your…
Trump: Deport 'Illegal Immigrants' Immediately with No Hearings
Washington, D.C. U.S. President Donald Trump called Sunday for immediately deporting illegal immigrants entering the United States with "no Judges or Court Cases." Donald…
U.S. Judge Orders Government to Reunite Immigrant Families
Washington, D.C. A U.S. federal judge has ordered the government to reunite immigrant parents and children it separated after they crossed the border, as part of a prelim…
VIDEO: Criminal Gangs in Guatemala Drive Many to Flee
Washington, D.C. Guatemalan Yeni González is one of the few mothers able to see their children after they were separated earlier this year under the Trump administration'…
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité: Immigrant Doctors in France Save Grand-maman
With Tony Abdel ghany. Provins, France. The entire world seems divided at year-end between the forces of love and hatred. Authoritarian regimes have reared their ugly hea…
Immigration, Ambition, Identity Shape Film Miss India America
Dallas, Texas. Immigration, ambition and identity tend to be perceived as intertwined strands of the American DNA, and it always renews itself. It should come as no surpr…
Supreme Court to Rule on Landmark Immigration Case
Washington D.C. Rosario Reyes says las pandillas , or gangs, always lingered in her neighborhood in El Salvador, but she became even more afraid after her brother-in-law…
U.N. Urges Hungary to Stop Portraying Refugees as ‘Invaders’
New York, N.Y. The United Nations refugee agency, together with two European partners, urged Hungary today to refrain from policies and practices that promote intolerance…
Barack Obama on Celebrating Immigrant Heritage Month
Washington, D.C. In this week's address, the President recognized Immigrant Heritage Month, an occasion that allows us to celebrate our origins as a nation of immigrants.…
From Lahore, Pakistan to Austin, Texas - in Order to Pursue our American Dream
Washington, D.C. September 6, 2012 was my first day as a citizen of the United States of America. I raised my hand, took the oath of allegiance, and the United States off…
U.N. Agency Urges Dominican Republic Not to Deport Haitians
New York, N.Y. The Dominican Republic must ensure that people whose citizenship was thrown into question by a 2013 ruling of the Constitutional Court will not be deported…
First 'Davos' for Women's International Development in NYC
New York, N.Y. I met Cecilia Attias, former First Lady of France and founder and executive chair of the Cecilia Attias Foundation for It was extraordinarily successful -…