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Maura Ewing

Maura Ewing is a Brooklyn-based journalist. Her work seeks to uncover important but obfuscated stories about urban poverty and criminal justice. She also likes to write about people fighting the good fight. She is a Western Massachusetts native and a proud graduate of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Her work has been published in The Nation, The Marshall Project, Al Jazeera America (RIP), Pacific Standard and The Atlantic, among other outlets.

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Why the Trump administration is asking the courts to remove safeguards for detaining migrant children

Immigration

The court ruling in question says if migrant children are detained, it should be short and in facilities that are more like childcare facilities than prisons.

A man with "POLICE ICE" protective vest leads a man in handcuffs down street, with another officer with "POLICE FEDERAL AGENT" on vest on the right

As immigration arrests rise, advocates warn immigrants to know their rights when agents show up

Justice
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In sanctuary cities, immigrants find themselves with few real protections from federal officials

Justice
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20 years ago, asylum seekers were not automatically put in immigration detention

Justice
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A migrant from El Salvador gets her chance in immigration court

Justice
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In Milwaukee, immigrants watch as their controversial sheriff joins the shortlist for Trump’s cabinet

Justice

Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke Jr. is on the shortlist to lead the Department of Homeland Security in Trump’s administration. But his record is of deep concern to immigrants and their advocates who have been battling his policies for years.

A man holds a sign that reads "All lives matter" in English and Chinese

A script for talking to your family about racism and police shootings

Justice

Within a day of the police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, 100 contributors write and translate a letter to help facilitate a conversation — with their parents.

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She’ll get US citizenship 60 years after being adopted, but thousands more must still wait

Justice

Ella Purkiss will be sworn in as a US citizen next week. Advocates say as many as 15,000 people who were adopted from abroad but never naturalized are waiting for legislation that would give them the chance to get documented too.

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Foreign-born citizens in Louisiana have had to take extra steps to register to vote — until now

Global Politics

A 142-year-old Louisiana law that created a cumbersome process for naturalized citizens to provide proof they are citizens has been repealed. The next step? Voter advocates say they want to be sure changes are made at registrar offices.

Marchers hold up signs that say "Justice for farmworkers" and "We shall be heard."

Workers may unionize — but not farmworkers. A lawsuit in New York seeks to change that.

Economics

Farmworkers have been excluded from labor rights laws enacted in the Jim Crow era. Now, it’s largely immigrants who are excluded from organized labor’s protections.