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Immigration

Borders

An aid worker is on trial for helping migrants. But groups like his are still doing their work.

PRI's The World

June 06, 2019

The desert around Ajo, Arizona, is one of the most deadly parts of the US border. Humanitarian aid groups there are continuing to provide food and water along known routes even as they await the verdict of a fellow volunteer who has been charged with helping two migrants.

Global Nation Education

This immigrant student's detention serves as a cautionary tale for DACA recipients

PRI's The World

June 05, 2019

In early 2018, Omar Helalat was a student at SUNY Albany about to graduate and start an internship in New York City. Today, Helalat has been in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention for over a year. It's all because of a strange quirk in US immigration law related to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients.

Global Nation Education

I am from Hong Kong, not China

PRI's The World

June 04, 2019

Frances Hui, a student in Emerson College from Hong Kong, is proud of her city's tradition of democratic rule and independent spirit. She penned a column for her college newspaper talking about her identity and received backlash from fellow students.

Global Nation Education

New Washington law on religious accommodations could serve as model for other states

PRI's The World

June 03, 2019

In Washington State, students' efforts to get their university to provide religious accommodations becomes a civics lesson.

Politics

'I think it caught everyone by surprise': Former Mexican ambassador to the US reacts to Trump's latest tariff threats

PRI's The World

May 31, 2019

President Donald Trump has stated his intention to raise tariffs by 5% on Mexican imports. This move risks hurting businesses, trade negotiations and political relationships between the two countries.

Immigration

A Japanese American newspaper chronicles the ‘searing’ history of immigrant incarceration

PRI's The World

May 30, 2019

As Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II die, one newspaper finds its community’s history carries new resonance in the current era of immigrant detention.

Borders

Morocco’s ‘mule women’ risk their lives hauling goods across the border from Spain

GlobalPost

May 30, 2019

After several female porters were trampled to death in Ceuta, Spain, private merchants took measures to improve working conditions. But is it enough?

How an ICE contract divided a Rhode Island city along racial and generational lines

PRI's The World

May 29, 2019

Holding detainees has become big business for private companies and some local governments. But there’s increasing pushback from protesters in places like California and Oregon. The issue has divided communities such as Central Falls, Rhode Island.

Immigration

For centuries, migrants have been said to pose public health risks. They don’t.

PRI's The World

May 23, 2019

The myth of the "diseased migrant" has fueled xenophobic immigration policies for centuries.

Immigration

How a US policy is tearing apart this same-sex couple and their children

PRI's The World

May 22, 2019

It's one of three recent high-profile case where the US government has denied citizenship to children born overseas to a same-sex married couple because the child did not share biological ties with the US citizen parent.

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