Amy Bracken

February 01, 2018

The Trump Administration announced Wednesday that Temporary Protected Status for Syrians will be extended for 18 months beyond its expiration date in March. TPS has enabled a young Syrian man named Amr Sinna to live, work, study and buy property in the US. He's been anxiously awaiting yesterday's announcement, along with almost 7,000 other Syrians living in the US with TPS.

Business

Eight years after the earthquake, a different taste of Haiti

PRI's The World

January 12, 2018

After the 2010 earthquake devasted Haiti, there was an outpouring of international support. Eight years later, most of those who rushed in to help are long gone. But many of those who remain are people with ties to Haiti, and ome of them started businesses that are getting some traction.

Economics

Haiti has a chicken-and-egg problem

PRI's The World

January 08, 2018

Haiti’s egg problem is a stark symptom — and a symbol — of the cycle of poverty in which the country has been stuck for decades, if not centuries.

Jobs

For businesses that boom in the summer, Trump’s H-2B visa expansion is too little too late

PRI's The World

July 19, 2017

Summer is high season in places like Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. But this year, many businesses there haven't been able to get the H-2B visas they need for their international workers.

Justice

A former trafficking victim gets her life back in southern Mexico

PRI's The World

June 30, 2017

“He was blackmailing me,” she says, “and I was afraid he would take my daughter away.”

Economics

Some migrants are rethinking the US as their ultimate destination

PRI's The World

April 20, 2017

How about Mexico? Some migrants are now considering the country as a possible home, instead of risking getting caught and deported at the US border.

Justice

Here’s how private prisons are being challenged, even as they scale up

PRI's The World

April 20, 2017

The Trump administration is expanding its use of private prison companies. And lawyers are gearing up for a fight.

Business

Mexico’s 'Mama Africa' welcomes migrants on a long journey

PRI's The World

April 19, 2017

An unmarked hotel along the Mexico-Guatemala border has become a frequent stop for weary migrants from parts of Africa and Haiti heading north.

Conflict

This evangelical church in Berlin is helping Iranians looking for asylum

PRI's The World

February 22, 2017

Some of the Iranian Christians in Berlin have been refused asylum elsewhere and need a place to hang out for six months until they can apply for asylum in Germany.

Conflict

Here are the real lessons from flawed responses to Haiti's disasters

PRI's The World

January 12, 2017

The earthquake that rocked Haiti seven years ago, today, and Hurricane Matthew, in October, are two completely different disasters — one urban, the other, rural; one arriving without warning, the other, visible in the distance — but both amounted to enormous humanitarian crises and offer great lessons for relief efforts.

Amy Bracken

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A Syrian with Temporary Protected Status says it's a matter of life or death

Eight years after the earthquake, a different taste of Haiti

Haiti has a chicken-and-egg problem

For businesses that boom in the summer, Trump’s H-2B visa expansion is too little too late

A former trafficking victim gets her life back in southern Mexico

Some migrants are rethinking the US as their ultimate destination

Here’s how private prisons are being challenged, even as they scale up

Mexico’s 'Mama Africa' welcomes migrants on a long journey

This evangelical church in Berlin is helping Iranians looking for asylum

Here are the real lessons from flawed responses to Haiti's disasters

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