by Maryam Saleh | Feb 24, 2017 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Despite President Donald Trump’s directive that the Department of Homeland Security must hire as many as 15,000 additional immigration agents, homeland security analysts and former officials say there’s no easy way to make that happen anytime soon. Trump...
by Taylor Goebel | Feb 17, 2017 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of immigrants and their families marched two miles to the White House on Thursday instead of going to work, shutting down more than 80 area restaurants to show what a day without them in the workforce looks like. Similar demonstrations...
by David Jordan | Feb 6, 2017 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise he would end a program that allows undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children to remain in the U.S., but in an interview less than a week after taking the oath of office he said those...
by Taylor Goebel | Feb 3, 2017 | Immigration
WASHINGTON – As Senate and House leaders Monday called for legislation to overturn the Trump administration’s ban on travel to the U.S. by people from certain Muslim countries, Shahrouz Hafez was thinking about how the ban has changed his future from a job in America...
by Nona Tepper | Feb 3, 2017 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Wherever you are, Akmal, Scott Cooper remembers you. Akmal, an Iraqi and Cooper’s friend, wanted to visit America someday and connect with his friends from the U.S. Marine Corps on their home territory, said Cooper, a retired lieutenant colonel. But...
by Nia Prater | Feb 2, 2017 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON—Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father who carried on a feud with now President Donald Trump after he skewered the future president for anti-Muslim rhetoric at the Democratic National Convention, appeared with Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minnesota Wednesday, to...