Immigration

Politics & Government

A 'shocking' 911 call and other key takeaways from NPR's ICE detention investigation

5:00am August 24, 2023

by Tom Dreisbach

NPR obtained secret government inspection reports, which described "negligent," "barbaric" and "filthy" conditions inside immigration detention facilities. Here's what to know.

Sacramento Area Congregations Together (Sac ACT) is providing English workbooks so the migrants can learn the language. The group also gives out quarters so they can do laundry.

Communities of faith welcome migrants caught in polarized immigration debate

7:46pm August 02, 2023

by Jason DeRose

When migrants from Latin America were flown from Texas and dropped off in Sacramento with nowhere to go, a group of congregations came together to care for them.

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The special Afghan unit would deploy with U.S. troops and speak with women and children.

They fought alongside the U.S. — now this female Afghan military platoon is in limbo

4:28pm August 01, 2023

by Kai McNamee

After the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, members of the Female Tactical Platoon came to America under a temporary humanitarian program. Many are now in immigration limbo.

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Paola Mendoza, the daughter of farmworkers, says her parents didn't want her to join them in the fields. She's now in college, studying to be a teacher.

Politics & Government

As these farmworkers' children seek a different future, who will pick the crops?

5:00am July 28, 2023

U.S. farms have faced worker shortages for years. Now compounding the problem: The children of farmworkers are leaving the fields, forcing farm owners to look to other countries for labor.

Jose Martinez was 14 when he came to the U.S. from Mexico to work in agriculture. He became an activist after years of enduring tough working conditions.

They put food on our tables but live in the shadows. This man is fighting to be seen

1:29pm July 26, 2023

Jose Martinez has picked America's food for decades. With all that experience on different farms, he saw workers lacking labor protections. Now he works to give farmworkers more rights.

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Syrian refugee Narmeen al-Zamel, 34, stands with her 3-year-old son Khaled in the lobby of the King Hussein Cancer Center in Amman, Jordan.

World News

He took one of the deadliest migrant routes, hoping to save his cancer-stricken son

5:00am June 30, 2023

NPR speaks to the family of a Syrian refugee who died along with possibly hundreds of other people in a shipwreck off the Greek coast in June.

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A U.S. law enforcement officer stands guard by a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border at El Paso, Texas.

The Supreme Court sides with the Biden administration in a fight over immigration

4:59pm June 23, 2023

by Joel Rose

The case concerned the administration's effort to set guidelines for whom immigration authorities can target for arrest and deportation. Texas and Louisiana had sued to block the guidelines.

A Venezuelan migrant watches the boat he hopes to take across the Gulf of Urabá once he gets enough money together for the trip.

World News

Here's one route where immigration has slowed since Biden's new U.S. border rules

8:42am June 09, 2023

by John Otis

A popular immigration passageway saw a drop right when the U.S. passed new rules imposing criminal prosecution and requiring proof an asylum-seeker was previously denied in another country.

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UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency, provides meals and legal orientation at the CAFEMIN shelter in Mexico City. The shelter capacity of 100 people has been stretched above 500 in recent weeks with a growing number of migrants stuck in limbo in Mexico.

New U.S. immigration rules send asylum requests soaring in Mexico

9:28am June 06, 2023

by James Fredrick

One of the new U.S. rules says you can't request asylum unless you've already been denied in another country. Mexico is getting more applications than ever, and crowded shelters have turn people away.

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Left: A Tennessee Historical Commission marker honors the site of Greenwood Park, which was the first city park to serve Nashville's Black residents and was established by Preston Taylor in 1905. Right: Learotha Williams is a public historian at Tennessee State University in Nashville.

National

Black immigrants are growing in numbers, but in the U.S. many often feel invisible

5:00am June 04, 2023

by Leah Donnella

One in five Black Americans are either immigrants or the children of immigrants. But feeling embraced or understood by the U.S. can seem daunting for some, and impossible for others.