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Small Maryland Town Grapples With Immigration Views After Murder Conviction

by Ashley N. Soriano | May 1, 2025 | Immigration

BEL AIR, Maryland – Locals described the town of Bel Air, Maryland, about 30 miles northeast of Baltimore, as community-oriented and safe, at least before Rachel Morin’s murder. Neighbors flock to Ma and Pa Heritage Trail to hike, the name itself symbolizing the...
First-gen Americans back Trump immigration policies at White House Egg Roll

First-gen Americans back Trump immigration policies at White House Egg Roll

by Ashley N. Soriano | May 1, 2025 | Featured, Immigration

WASHINGTON – Tens of thousands of people, including some first-generation Americans, attended the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, April 21, an event geared toward children and family-friendly events. But not everyone celebrated the holiday by racing to...
Undocumented, Unprotected, and Still Paying Taxes: Tax season raises fear in the immigration community as IRS and ICE agree to work with each other

Undocumented, Unprotected, and Still Paying Taxes: Tax season raises fear in the immigration community as IRS and ICE agree to work with each other

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...
House Representatives disagree about whether sanctuary cities should comply with I.C.E. detention orders

House Representatives disagree about whether sanctuary cities should comply with I.C.E. detention orders

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...
Nonprofit organizations become a helpful resource in the naturalization process

Nonprofit organizations become a helpful resource in the naturalization process

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...
After a lifetime outside politics, an artist chooses his side: Trump

After a lifetime outside politics, an artist chooses his side: Trump

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,...
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