by Angeles Ponpa | Apr 16, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – As millions of Americans raced to meet the April 15th tax deadline, undocumented immigrants faced a different kind of pressure. They fear filing taxes could lead to their deportation. The anxiety was heightened this year as a newly disclosed agreement...
by Atmika Iyer | Apr 10, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — At the House Judiciary subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement on Wednesday Republicans and Democrats clashed over whether sanctuary cities should comply with federal orders to detain individuals I.C.E. potentially wants to...
by Anastasia Mason and Yiqing Wang | Apr 3, 2024 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Every week in downtown D.C., near the National Archives and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, hundreds of aspiring new Americans from 100 different countries navigate past groups of tourists and students on field trips to attend in-depth civics...
by Yiqing Wang | Mar 19, 2024 | Immigration, Politics
CHARLESTON, S.C. – White Converse shoes, green work pants scattered with paint stains, black hoodie and a cowboy hat covered with dozens of rock ‘n’ roll pins. Anderson Lee Smith, a 66-year-old, 6-foot-tall man with his long, gray hair tied back in a low ponytail,...
by Yiqing Wang | Mar 7, 2024 | Immigration, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement held a hearing on Mar.7 to examine President Joe Biden’s inability to maintain border security, calling for a change in the current immigration law. While both...
by Yiqing Wang | Feb 15, 2024 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Moris Esmelis Campos-Chaves sat in the plaintiff’s seat in the Supreme Court chamber on a cold, gloomy day in early January. It was a moment the dark skinned, 5-foot-10 gardener had been waiting for for nineteen years. Campos-Chaves entered the U.S....
