undocumented immigrants

43 posts

Immigration raids expected to escalate in North Carolina as locals organize to protect their neighbors

As the impacts of the raids quickly ripple outward from Charlotte, North Carolinians are mobilizing to stem enforcement operations in their communities

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11 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

NYC street vendors face rising fines and fractured community amid slow reform

For over a decade, New York City has failed to issue permits that street vendors need. A reform package promises to change that, but it’s not without controversy

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11 Min
By: Ana María Betancourt, Maggie Morett, Óscar Flores

Disabled immigrants detained at notorious California facility report abuse and neglect

Disability Rights California found inhumane and unlawful conditions at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, where a 39-year-old man died last month

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5 Min
By: Reina Sultan

She managed to get a temporary farmworker visa. Once in the U.S., she endured abuse and exploitation.

A Prism investigation reveals that women are routinely shut out of the H-2A program, and when they are granted visas, they report being funneled into non-agricultural labor where they face sexual violence and trafficking

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29 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

Meet Yamilet Galvan, the trauma-informed voice of a generation

Like many youth across Los Angeles County, the 11-year-old Chicana has plenty to say about Trump, ICE’s racist raids, and the many failures of grown-ups who voted for the mess young people find themselves in

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9 Min
By: Myriam Gurba

A Syrian man won his fight to avoid deportation. Ten months later, he remains detained.

Kamel Maklad’s case reveals how authorities are imprisoning people who can’t legally be deported until they capitulate and agree to leave the country, immigration experts say

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6 Min
By: Stephanie Casanova

FIU faculty pushes back against controversial ICE partnership: ‘This is already harming our students’

Florida International University applied for the 287(g) Task Force Model late last year, potentially granting immigration enforcement powers to campus police officers

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7 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

How the IRS and ICE data-sharing memo will impact immigrant communities

Immigrant rights groups warn that the new policy will further marginalize undocumented immigrants and threaten billions in tax revenue

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4 Min
By: Bianca Gonzalez

The suicides of two Latina children in the South further erode immigrant parents’ sense of safety

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, 11, of Texas and Gabriela Aparicio Ortega, 13, of North Carolina died by suicide in February after being bullied about their parents’ alleged immigration statuses

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9 Min
By: Julio Tordoya

Deporting veterans betrays America’s promise

ICE does not report the veteran status of people it has deported, but organizations estimate that hundreds of veterans have been deported over the years

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4 Min
By: Alex Murillo

A slave society: America upholds its long history of subjugation

Millions of unmoored and undocumented people are being punished at an accelerated pace for the crime of having enriched the wealthiest country on Earth

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7 Min
By: Avik Jain Chatlani

In a time of mass deportations, the literary community must end discriminatory practices

As the Trump administration makes good on its deportation promises, the literary community must take immediate action and ensure the protection of all our stories and writers

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4 Min
By: Janine Joseph

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