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...
by Zoya Mirza | Nov 10, 2021 | Immigration
WASHINGTON –– The successful assimilation and accommodation of refugees and U.S. allies from Afghanistan will remain a top priority, Biden officials said during a virtual town hall this week to discuss Operation Allies Welcome –– a federal initiative aimed at the...
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by Hazel Tang and Mark Dovich | Aug 18, 2021 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — Disruptions to the country’s food supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic have refocused attention on the key role that migrant workers play in U.S. agriculture, and legislation currently stalled in Congress could shore up the country’s...
