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EXPLAINER: Breaking down today’s new immigration rules on undocumented, DACA, smuggling, border wall

February 21, 2017
Beatrice
Immigration, News, Politics, Twitter Embed, USA

The White House predicts up to one million undocumented Americans are eligible for immediate deportation, while the Los Angeles Times recently put the number much higher, at eight million.

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OPINION: Instead of #NotMyPresidentsDay, fight for change with respect, kindness and understanding

February 20, 2017
Beatrice
Opinion, Politics, Top Stories, USA

In a time when the country is more divided than we have ever seen, it is imperative that everyone takes it upon themselves to spread tolerance and work to create the world all of us want to see.

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Despite appeals court decision, Trump stance on immigration worries Korea high school students

February 9, 2017
Beatrice
Asia, Immigration, News, Politics, South Korea, Top Stories

After the U.S. election, the ongoing joke among students at Chadwick International School in Songdo, South Korea, was, “I guess I won’t be going to the States for college.” But that joke may be the reality for many international students.

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45for45: Lebanon high school students speak out on Muslim ban

February 9, 2017
Beatrice
45for45: Millennial messages to @POTUS, Middle East, Opinion, Politics, Top Stories, Videos

Students at Houssam Eddine Hariri High School in Saida, Lebanon, produced this video from what they call "a land of diversity," with their message on being young and Muslim.

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#45for45 kickoff: Youth to weigh in on Trump’s first 100 days

February 6, 2017
Kellen Browning
45for45: Millennial messages to @POTUS, News, Politics, Top Stories, USA, Videos

Global Student Square is launching a new video project with one aim in mind: What do you have to say to America's new president — the 45th @POTUS — Donald Trump?

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OPINION: Blue House standoff comes amid anger among South Koreans over corruption, social inequality

February 3, 2017
Beatrice
Asia, Opinion, Politics, South Korea, Top Stories, Videos

But as I kept listening to the anti-Park protesters, it dawned on me that the main reason citizens are demonstrating in the streets is that they are dissatisfied with their lives.

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OPINION: Struggle against Muslim travel ban is exactly what it means to be American

January 30, 2017
Beatrice
Culture, Libre Talks, Opinion, Politics, Top Stories, USA

For me, the most uncomfortable feeling I’ve ever encountered — and continue to encounter — is feeling unwelcome in my own home. And thanks to the executive order on immigration and refugees that President Donald Trump signed last Friday, this painful feeling shows no sign of dissipating.

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Here Today project quotes Trump on #RefugeeBan: ‘It’s not going to be pretty’

January 29, 2017
Beatrice
Cities, Crisis & Conflicts, Culture, Europe, Here Today, Immigration, Investigative Reports, Opinion, Past Projects, Photography, Politics, Top Stories, Videos

"Here Today," our just-finished digital storytelling project in Paris, gives a human backstory and predicts the chaos that erupted after an executive order on immigration signed by President Donald Trump last Friday.

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OPINION: One week after #WomensMarch, it’s time to hit the road

January 29, 2017
Beatrice
And We Rise, Justice & Equality, Opinion, Politics, Top Stories, USA

With the travel ban on Muslims and the end of the U.S. refugee resettlement program announced just yesterday, now is another time for young people to act — Jews and Muslims, Latino/as and LGBTQ, and every other American who is being targeted, mistreated, marginalized and stopped at the border.

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Sanctuary college campuses prepared as Trump vows ‘big day’ ahead on border wall, refugees

January 24, 2017
Kellen Browning
Immigration, Justice & Equality, News, Politics, Top Stories, USA

More than 600 public, private and religious schools have signed the “Statement in Support of DACA Program and our Undocumented Immigrant Students.”

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