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....
by Anastasia Mason | Feb 14, 2024 | Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON – Tensions between the Biden administration and Gov. Greg Abbott continued to heighten after a mother and two children drowned in the Rio Grande last month as they tried to cross the border from Mexico into the U.S. The drownings occurred near Eagle Pass’...
by Anastasia Mason | Feb 1, 2024 | Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Democrats stood up for U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, while Republicans pushed for his impeachment during a hearing Jan. 18. The hearing was the second scheduled by Republicans to gather evidence against Mayorkas, but...
