Steven Menashi has worked alongside Miller on the administration’s cruelest policies.
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Most Republicans and Democrats agree: Immigrants make the U.S. a better place to live
The poll surveyed a random sample of 4,527 of the state’s registered voters from Sept. 13-18. It was conducted online in English and Spanish. Continue reading
Once he was a refugee. Now he’s a CEO making video games for peace.
“I never knew he was going to be who he was today,” Daruka said. “I was just being a mom to him. I was just working hard for him. Because life changes. Life changes sometimes.” Continue reading
They Crossed an Ocean to Butcher Pigs. It Was No American Dream.
200 Pacific Islanders recruited to work at an Iowa pork plant ended up in a tangled migration dispute with accusations of mistreatment and broken promises.
Border Patrol agents detained her and followed her to the emergency room. They refused to leave as she got treatment.
In October 2017, an undocumented 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, Rosa Maria Hernandez, was arrested in Texas while being transferred from one hospital to another. Two years earlier, a woman was put into deportation proceedings when she presented fake ID at a gynecologist appointment in Houston. Continue reading
They’re the refugees that Trump tried to stop. But now they’re here, and they’re ‘becoming Americans.’
On the day that President Trump slashed refugee admissions to their lowest level in four decades, the arrival of a dazed traveler at Dallas’s international airport last month offered a quiet rebuke. Continue reading
‘I’m not here to take anyone’s job’: Mexican crab pickers quietly work in Maryland as immigration debate rages
“I hope my kids understand one day why I do this,” Vazquez said, “and why I have to be away.” Continue reading
High court to consider state role in prosecuting immigrants
“Knowing that the outcome of this case will shape the immigration and criminal law in this country, I think it compounds the stress and distraction that our family has because we know the weight that it carries,” she said. Continue reading
$200 Million, Jailed Immigrants and a Democratic Bastion Under Fire
A New Jersey county in one of the bluest regions of the country faces mounting pressure to stop housing detained immigrants in its jail.
The Immigrants Trump Denounces Have Helped Revive the Cities He Scorns
Two of the president’s oft-cited problems have been solutions to each other throughout American history.