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National

Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody

10:36pm December 22, 2020

by Joel Rose

More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.

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Katalin Karikó works at BioNTech, the company that partnered with Pfizer to make the first COVID-19 vaccine to get emergency authorization in the United States.

If COVID-19 Vaccines Bring An End To The Pandemic, America Has Immigrants To Thank

3:49pm December 18, 2020

by Joel Rose

Scientists and investors born outside the U.S. played crucial roles in the development of COVID-19 vaccines — a remarkable vindication for the argument that innovation depends on immigration.

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Erika Andiola, an immigrant rights activist, speaks at a news conference about immigration reform in 2013.

Politics & Government

On Immigration, Activists' Demands May Exceed Biden Realities

3:50pm December 13, 2020

by Franco Ordoñez

Joe Biden has promised to reverse the Trump administration's most restrictive immigration policies. But he did not include immigration as one of his four core priorities.

Stacey Mei Yan Fong has been baking her way across the United States: Clockwise from upper left, a baked Alaska pie, Utah's funeral potato pie, Nevada's all you can eat buffet pie, South Carolina's peach pie, Ohio's buckeye pie, Iowa's s'mores pie, Missou

Arts

An Ode, À La Mode: 1 Baker Savors America, Creating 50 Pies For 50 States

3:48pm November 27, 2020

by Neda Ulaby

Originally from Singapore, Stacey Mei Yan Fong loves baking and America. For a project she calls 50 Pies/50 States, she's made an elaborative representative pie for each state.

A former FARC guerrilla member waves a FARC political party flag during a demonstration in Bogota on Nov. 2. A federal court overturned an asylum decision Wednesday, holding that FARC death threats counted as persecution.×

National

Death Threats, Even In Writing, Can Be Grounds For Asylum, Appeals Court Says

10:37pm November 26, 2020

by Matthew S. Schwartz

The court overturned a Justice Department decision denying the asylum of a former Colombia police officer who received multiple death threats from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

In the Guadalupe Canyon in southeastern Arizona, work crews are dynamiting mountainsides and bulldozing access roads in this stunning landscape to make way for the border wall. Mexico is on the left.

National

Trump's Border Wall Builders Carry On Even Though Projects May Never Be Completed

3:22pm November 16, 2020

by John Burnett

Builders are hurrying to get as many miles completed as possible before President-elect Joe Biden can cancel contracts. Biden has said his administration would stop building the wall.

The Senate side of the Capitol is seen in Washington, D.C., early Monday. Experts say President-elect Joe Biden's ability to reshape the U.S. immigration system will be sharply limited if Republicans retain control of the Senate.

On Immigration, Biden's Biggest Promises Likely Hinge On Who Controls The Senate

8:51pm November 09, 2020

by Joel Rose

President-elect Biden is expected to quickly reverse some of the Trump administration's most controversial policies. But his ability to reshape immigration would be limited in a divided government.

Iván and his mother, Hilda Ramirez, have taken refuge in a suburban church in Austin, Texas, for more than four and a half years. She says they fled his abusive grandfather in Guatemala five years ago, made it to the Texas border, and asked for asylum fr

National

Sanctuary Immigrants Take Refuge In Texas Church, Watch Election Closely

5:01pm November 02, 2020

by John Burnett

President Trump's immigration policies are on the line and many are hoping Joe Biden will follow through on pledges to help immigrants and asylum-seekers if he wins the election.

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Honduran migrants walking in a group stop before Guatemalan police in January near Agua Caliente, Guatemala. The Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says U.S. immigration agents in Guatemala helped officials deport Hondurans traveli

Democratic Lawmakers Denounce DHS 'Ad Hoc' Migrant Deportations In Guatemala

4:23pm October 29, 2020

by Carrie Kahn

Democratic lawmakers are demanding more information from the Trump administration about U.S. agents working in Guatemala to round up Honduran migrants and send them to the Guatemala-Honduras border.

David Xol of Guatemala hugs his son Byron as they were reunited at Los Angeles International Airport in January. The father and son were separated 18 months earlier under the Trump administration's "no tolerance" migration policy.

National

Parents Of 545 Children Separated At U.S.-Mexico Border Still Can't Be Found

9:47am October 21, 2020

by Mark Katkov

A court filing says many of the parents are presumed to no longer be in the United States. Efforts to locate them have been hampered by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the filing.