When Hutchinson community activist Esmeralda Tovar-Mora had the opportunity to visit with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office last week, she shared with him a recent stressful experience in her life. Seated beside the president, she told him about when her permit issued under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program expired. Click […]
Read MoreVenezuelan migrants fleeing political repression and dire economic circumstances are increasingly traveling to the United States’s southern border, and nearly all are being admitted under the Biden administration. The influx is drawing comparison to the mid-century surge of refugees to the U.S. as tens of thousands of people fled Cuba after the revolution in 1959, […]
Read MoreAcross the political spectrum, Americans are worried about the rising number of migrants apprehended after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months, according to a new NPR/Ipsos poll. But whatever their misgivings about the situation at the border, majorities of poll respondents favor creating a legal pathway to citizenship for certain groups of immigrants already […]
Read MoreHUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of Massachusetts immigrants could be impacted by President Biden’s immigration overhaul, which includes a massive bill sent to Congress on Wednesday that was accompanied by a series of executive orders. Those orders, signed after Biden assumed the presidency, will reverse Trump-era travel bans that focused primarily on immigrants from Muslim countries. Another […]
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