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News Articles: citizenship

19-year-old Ximena Arias-Cristobal at a press conference in Atlanta on May 27, 2025, about a week after being released from ICE detention. The college student was jailed in Dalton for driving without a license, though after the fact, police said she didn’t actually commit a traffic violation. "It kind of flips your world. We now kind of live a little bit more in fear," Arias-Cristobal said.

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Dalton State student speaks out after ‘improper’ arrest, immigration detention

Ximena Arias-Cristobal is seeking a pathway to citizenship after her arrest and immigration detention.

May 28, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas and
  • Sarah Kallis
Twenty-two people originally from 15 different nations took the Oath of Allegiance to become United States citizens at the William Augustus Bootle Federal Courthouse in Macon Wednesday. The group was made up of students, mothers, fathers, engineers and even an entomologist.

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In Macon, a day to celebrate becoming an American

Close to two dozen people took the final step toward American citizenship in a ceremony in Macon's Bootle Federal Courthouse.

April 11, 2025
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  • Grant Blankenship
President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (left) attend a cabinet meeting at the White House on April 10. Trump on Thursday warned of the "transition cost" from his tariff policies, as Wall Street stocks fell again over the worsening trade war with China.

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  • Politics

4 takeaways from the week: In a world that craves stability, Trump brings the chaos

President Trump's trade war sent global markets reeling this week. How Trump has handled tariffs shows the farthest thing from stability and predictability. A look at this and three other takeaways.

April 11, 2025
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
Jose Barco in Iraq in 2007.

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  • National

He's a decorated war vet but a convicted criminal. ICE wants to deport him

Jose Barco's story is one of battlefield trauma, bureaucratic bumbling and eventually, a serious crime.

April 04, 2025
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By:
  • Tom Bowman and
  • Quil Lawrence
President Joe Biden issued executive actions restricting asylum eligibility for most people who cross the border unauthorized on Tuesday, June 4.

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  • National

Biden's plan will shield undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens from deportation

Executive actions from the White House will offer parole to up to half a million immigrants

June 18, 2024
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By:
  • Jasmine Garsd and
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley participates in fourth Republican Presidential Primary Debate on on December 6, 2023 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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  • Elections

Bringing birther back, Donald Trump questions Nikki Haley's right to be president

The former governor of South Carolina, Haley was born in the southern state. But as she surges in Republican polls, Trump is elevating false conspiracy theories about her citizenship on social media.

January 10, 2024
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  • Franco Ordoñez
Amalija Knavs, mother of first lady Melania Trump, walks on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, June 18, 2017. Knavs has died, according to an announcement by Trump late Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024.

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  • Obituaries

Former first lady Melania Trump's mother has died

Trump described her mother, Amalija Knavs, as strong and graceful in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. Knavs, a native of Slovenia, became a U.S. citizen in 2018.

January 10, 2024
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  • Ayana Archie
Hertz has apologized and rewritten company policy after a Puerto Rican man was denied a rental car despite showing his valid U.S. driver's license.

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  • Business

Yes, Puerto Rican licenses are valid in the U.S., Hertz reminds its employees

A Puerto Rican man was denied a car rental at a Hertz location at the New Orleans airport where employees apparently believed his driver's license was from outside the U.S. Hertz has since apologized.

May 26, 2023
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega has consolidated his power since popular protests erupted in 2018.

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  • World

Nicaragua strips 94 political opponents of citizenship

President Daniel Ortega intensifies his political crackdown, stripping 94 of the most prominent Nicaraguan writers, journalists and human rights activists of citizenship. They lose all their rights.

February 16, 2023
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By:
  • Eyder Peralta
The State Department has updated its policy regarding granting citizenship to children born via in vitro fertilization or surrogacy. Its earlier rules denied citizenship to those children unless they had direct genetic ties to their parent who was a U.S. citizen.

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  • Law

U.S. Ends Policy Of Denying Citizenship To Children Born Via IVF Or Surrogacy

The State Department says its updated policy "takes into account the realities of modern families" and advances in reproductive technology.

May 19, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz

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