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Five Questions with Karima Lynch

December 22, 2020
Hunter Black
Interview, Politics, USA

As America moves on from a historic election that saw Kamala Harris, the former district attorney of San Francisco, elected vice-president, Lynch talks about what the vote means for the Democratic Party and the Bay Area, and the work ahead after a year marked by unrest.

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OPINION: Trump’s administration distorts facts about DACA recipients

October 27, 2017
Kellen Browning
Immigration, Opinion, Politics, Top Stories, USA

From the size of the crowd at his inauguration to the types of people at the Charlottesville protests, President Donald Trump and his administration frequently exaggerate and distort facts to paint a different picture of events. The people who are part of the DACA program are just the latest victim of this trend.

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Opinion: End of a dream for America’s DREAMers

September 5, 2017
Beatrice
Immigration, Justice & Equality, Opinion, Politics, Top Stories, USA

For more than five long, anxious years, we believed that it wasn’t over. But with President Trump’s decision expected later today to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, I realize that we DREAMers have been waging a fight that we lost from the beginning.

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Voices of the Square: Q&A with Zahra Billoo, civil rights lawyer and Muslim activist

May 18, 2017
Beatrice
Education, Immigration, Interview, Justice & Equality, Libre Talks, Opinion, Podcast/Audio, Politics, Top Stories, USA, Voices Of The Square

GSS Libre Talks columnist Hannah Shraim interviews CAIR executive director Zahra Billoo about issues facing our nation, including President Trump's moves to ban Muslims from traveling to the U.S., a program that’s targeting Muslim high school students in Maryland as potential community informants, and what she prefers to a really nutritious dinner.

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VIDEO: A DREAMer on immigration, family ties and who hate really hurts

May 1, 2017
Beatrice
45for45: Millennial messages to @POTUS, Immigration, Interview, News, Top Stories, USA, Videos

At York Community High School in Elmhurst, Illinois, Latina student and DREAMers club member Christina Guerrero spoke about what leaving home means to her family and how they are responding to changes in immigration policy.

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DREAMer deportation, new immigration policies worry DACA students

April 25, 2017
Kellen Browning
Immigration, Justice & Equality, News, Politics, Top Stories, USA

In Encinitas, California, 134 miles east of Calexico, a 17-year-old undocumented student at San Dieguito Academy lives in constant fear of her family being deported.

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From Honduras to Yolo County to freedom: G.E.’s journey

March 28, 2017
Meghan Bobrowsky
Crisis & Conflicts, Immigration, Justice & Equality, News, Top Stories, USA

Fourteen-year-old G.E. — referred to only by his initials because he is a minor — fled Honduras to escape an abusive family situation, traveling over 1,400 miles from his native country to reach Texas. Upon entering the United States, however, he was jailed as an undocumented immigrant.

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Without fanfare, Trump issues revised travel ban

March 6, 2017
Kellen Browning
Immigration, Middle East, News, Politics, USA

The revised ban temporarily blocks immigration from six Muslim-majority countries — Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — and omits Iraq, which was on the original list.

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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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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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