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Why I'm Undocumented

Two men working on a truck

What is often called ‘illegal immigration’ isn’t really treated as illegal

Global Politics

Within the immigration system, there’s often no bright line difference between immigrants who came legally and those who broke immigration laws.

Despite being undocumented, Zully was able to go to college to study arts. Much of her work reflects her experience as an immigrant in America.

An immigrant family remembers the past and ponders their future under Trump

Global Politics
Arnold and Sharon Giammarco, with their daughter Blair.

After 50 years as a legal immigrant, I spent 18 months in immigration detention without a bail hearing

Conflict
Kim Craig has spent the past three years in Korea, hoping to get home to the US.

This woman has been stuck in Korea for three years trying to get home to the US

Justice
Oliver Merino is a museum educator and an activist for the rights of Dreamers — people brought to this country at a young age, without documents.

Young, undocumented and worried. What’s next for those who received DACA.

Global Politics
Black and white photo of man standing in room

‘When I vote next week, I will be saying loud and clear, this is also my country.’

Justice

More than ever before, Luis Mancheno feels the heavy burdens of the color of his skin and his national origin. Come November 8, he’s looking for some relief.

Border

A day in the life of immigration limbo

Justice

Day after anxious day, a mother who escaped gang violence with her children in El Salvador waits in Boston to know whether she and her family can stay in the US legally or not.

Couple looks at wedding officiant in ceremony

This is how an entire family that grows up together in the United States can end up with one person undocumented

Justice

This is how the US Immigration system works. There is no gray area.

A woman walks on a catwalk around people sitting in chairs

These undocumented workers aren’t in the shadows, they’re out on the catwalk

Justice

Whether Melania Trump modeled in the US without work authorization, the fashion industry is a prime place to find undocumented workers, say these models who have been there.Whether Melania Trump modeled in the US without work authorization, the fashion industry is a prime place to find undocumented workers, say these models who have been there.

Two images, one of an infant in black and white and one of a woman

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.