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News Articles: Immigration

On Wednesday, President Biden lifted a Trump-era ban on green cards issued outside the United States and temporary work visas.

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Biden Reopens Gateway For Green Cards And Work Visas, Reversing Trump COVID-19 Freeze

The change means the wait is over for hundreds of thousands of job-seeking foreigners and those pursuing permanent residency in the U.S. to apply for the coveted immigration documents.

February 25, 2021
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine in Edinburg, Texas, last year. The Rio Grande Valley, a four-county region that stretches across Texas's southernmost tip, remains one of America's most afflicted areas, with the highest hospitalization rates, deaths at more than twice the state average, overwhelmed hospitals and refrigerated trucks serving as back-up morgues.

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  • National

Texas Vaccination Site Apologizes For Refusing COVID-19 Shots To 2 Eligible People

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley turned away people because they could not prove they live in the United States. Proof of residency and citizenship are not required under state rules.

February 23, 2021
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By:
  • Kristen Cabrera
A Salvadoran girl sits inside a camp for asylum-seekers on Sunday in Matamoros, Mexico, where some 600 people who left Central America have been waiting for immigration court hearings.

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  • Politics

Biden Team Unveils New Asylum System To Replace Trump's 'Remain In Mexico'

President Biden has called his predecessor's "Remain in Mexico" program for asylum-seekers "inhumane." Next week, a new program begins, but details are still being worked out.

February 12, 2021
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By:
  • Alana Wise
President Biden is set to sign a series of executive actions on immigration — steps mean to unwind some of the actions taken by his predecessor.

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  • Politics

Here Are The Immigration Actions President Biden Plans To Sign

President Biden has been working to unwind many of the executive actions taken by former President Donald Trump. But the administration has warned that the changes will take time.

February 02, 2021
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
The Trump-era "zero tolerance" immigration policy has resulted in the separation of more than 3,000 children from their families after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

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  • Politics

Justice Department Rescinds Trump's 'Zero Tolerance' Immigration Policy

The Trump-era immigration policy resulted in thousands of family separations at the U.S-Mexico border.

January 27, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
President Joe Biden sits in the oval office next to a stack of executive orders.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Biden's Immigration Reform Could Change Georgia But Faces Uphill Battle

Monday on Political Rewind: A flurry of executive orders marks President Joe Biden’s first days in office. One of his priorities has been to introduce a major immigration reform bill, which includes plans to roll back a number of immigration orders from the previous administration.

Also: The New York Times revealed a previously unknown effort by former President Donald Trump to overturn the results of the presidential election in Georgia.

January 25, 2021
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
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Cuban migrants block the Paso del Norte-Santa Fe international bridge between Mexico and the United States, to demand that the Trump administration allow them to wait for their asylum process on U.S. soil, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Dec. 29, 2020.

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  • National

Asylum Seekers Hope Biden's Pledge To Welcome Immigrants Includes Them

One of the most daunting immigration challenges facing the Biden administration is what to do about the multitudes of migrants who want asylum protection in the United States.

January 22, 2021
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  • John Burnett
President-elect Joe Biden, seen here speaking about national security last month, plans to make good on an election promise to send Congress an immigration bill on Day 1.

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  • Politics

On Immigration, Biden Goes Big In Opening Bid To Congress

Biden will send Congress a proposal that would protect millions of people from deportation, marking a dramatic turn from President Trump's hardline immigration tack.

January 20, 2021
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  • Franco Ordoñez
Pamela and Afshin Raghebi celebrate a birthday together. Afshin, who was born in Iran, has been stuck overseas, away from his U.S. citizen wife, for more than two years after he flew abroad for an interview at a U.S. Consulate as part of his green card application.

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  • National

Legacy Of President Trump's Travel Ban Will Be Hard For Biden To Erase

President-elect Biden plans to end the Trump administration's travel ban on Muslim-majority countries on Day 1. But immigrant advocates say the lasting effects of the policy will be harder to undo.

January 20, 2021
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  • Joel Rose
Migrants from Haiti, Africa, and Central America wait to see if their number will be called to cross the border and apply for asylum in the United States, at the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, in September 2019.

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  • National

Immigrant Advocates Vow To Keep Up The Pressure As Biden Asks For Patience

President-elect Joe Biden says he will roll back many of President Trump's actions on immigration — but it will take longer than immigrant advocates might have hoped.

December 24, 2020
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  • Joel Rose
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  • National

Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody

More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.

December 22, 2020
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  • Joel Rose
Katalin Karikó works at BioNTech, the company that partnered with Pfizer to make the first COVID-19 vaccine to get emergency authorization in the United States.

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  • National

If COVID-19 Vaccines Bring An End To The Pandemic, America Has Immigrants To Thank

Scientists and investors born outside the U.S. played crucial roles in the development of COVID-19 vaccines — a remarkable vindication for the argument that innovation depends on immigration.

December 18, 2020
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  • Joel Rose
Erika Andiola, an immigrant rights activist, speaks at a news conference about immigration reform in 2013.

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  • Politics

On Immigration, Activists' Demands May Exceed Biden Realities

Joe Biden has promised to reverse the Trump administration's most restrictive immigration policies. But he did not include immigration as one of his four core priorities.

December 13, 2020
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  • Franco Ordoñez
Stacey Mei Yan Fong has been baking her way across the United States: Clockwise from upper left, a baked Alaska pie, Utah's funeral potato pie, Nevada's all you can eat buffet pie, South Carolina's peach pie, Ohio's buckeye pie, Iowa's s'mores pie, Missouri's frozen custard pie, and Minnesota's corn dog casserole pie.

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  • Food

An Ode, À La Mode: 1 Baker Savors America, Creating 50 Pies For 50 States

Originally from Singapore, Stacey Mei Yan Fong loves baking and America. For a project she calls 50 Pies/50 States, she's made an elaborative representative pie for each state.

November 27, 2020
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
A former FARC guerrilla member waves a FARC political party flag during a demonstration in Bogota on Nov. 2. A federal court overturned an asylum decision Wednesday, holding that FARC death threats counted as persecution.×

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  • Law

Death Threats, Even In Writing, Can Be Grounds For Asylum, Appeals Court Says

The court overturned a Justice Department decision denying the asylum of a former Colombia police officer who received multiple death threats from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

November 27, 2020
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  • Matthew S. Schwartz
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