by Dhivya Sridar | Apr 13, 2022 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — In 2021, CBP carried out over 1.6 million apprehensions at the border –– a level not seen for 20 years, according to a March report by the American Immigration Council. As the crisis at the southern border worsens, immigration advocates and...
by Julia Mueller | Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats sparred over immigration policy Wednesday at a House Homeland Security subcommittee hearing on the Trump administration’s “Remain In Mexico” policy that a court ordered President Joe Biden to continue. And...
by Dhivya Sridar | Feb 15, 2022 | Immigration
Nearly 5,500 unaccompanied migrant children were relocated to Maryland between October 2020 and September 2021, the highest number in the past six years, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Refugee Resettlement. The year before, this...
by Allison Novelo | Feb 10, 2022 | Featured, Immigration
Five years after the launch of Frederick County’s first human trafficking task force, local leaders say the increase of reported human trafficking cases during that period means the task force is “working well.” “Before the task force, nobody from hotel operators to...
by Dhivya Sridar | Feb 8, 2022 | Featured, Immigration
Atia Iqbal, an attorney in Afghanistan, arrived in Spokane in 2015. Before coming to the U.S., her husband taught inmates how to sew at a jail belonging to the U.S. military at Bagram base in Afghanistan, she said. At one point, most of the people in the jail were...
by Zoya Mirza | Jan 25, 2022 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – In the late hours of a cold Saturday evening, Sadia Ali and her family sat huddled together in a car parked outside of a defunct federal office situated west of the Hamid Karzai International Airport. Holding hands and clutching onto overstuffed backpacks...
