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Posted inEditor's Pick

Biden Is Still Separating Immigrant Kids from Their Families

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 6, 2022December 6, 2022

“We said never again, but here we are.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

To Stay or To Go?

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 28, 2020October 19, 2022

“Some immigrants have been withdrawing cases against their lawyers’ advice, saying they’re more afraid of being in detention during a coronavirus outbreak than of what might be waiting in the places they fled.”

Posted inNonfiction

Motherhood on the Line

by Alice Driver December 2, 2020October 18, 2022

Three asylum seekers navigate coronavirus and climate change at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Trump Killed My American Dream: 8 Stories From the War on Immigrants

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 10, 2020October 19, 2022

In their own words, eight would-be Americans share their experiences — and the challenges they’ve faced amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on legal and unauthorized immigration.

Posted inCurrent Events, investigations, Nonfiction, Story

Inside the Chaos of Immigration Court

by Gabriel Thompson September 22, 2020October 19, 2022

Gabriel Thompson takes us into San Francisco Immigration Court and the labyrinthine system that asylum seekers—and attorneys and judges—are up against.

Posted inNonfiction

The Promised Land

by Alice Driver July 21, 2020November 25, 2022

A trans activist from El Salvador who has helped countless trans migrant women fight for asylum in the U.S. finds asylum for herself.

Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story

Oh, Girl!

by Alice Driver June 20, 2019October 19, 2022

Migrant children, many of whom are unaccompanied minors, are traveling to the U.S. border to escape violence and seek asylum. Is anyone listening to their stories?

Posted inCurrent Events, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

Caught Between Borders

by Annie Hylton June 11, 2019October 19, 2022

Closed borders and closed minds are trapping African LGBTI asylum seekers in hostile countries.

Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story

When You Carry All That You Love With You

by Alice Driver November 9, 2018October 19, 2022

Alice Driver travels into the heart of the caravan.

Posted inNonfiction, Story

Finding True North

by Amy Bracken August 13, 2018October 19, 2022

Thousands of Haitians who fled the United States on foot last summer have started very different lives in Canada.

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