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North Carolina’s immigrant residents face a range of challenges such as language barriers, complex eligibility rules and discriminatory treatment when interacting with government agencies.
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Next week, the Hmong community will celebrate the most important holiday in their culture: the New Year. In North Carolina, home to the country's fourth-largest Hmong population, the annual festivities will be in Newton, about 50 miles northwest of Charlotte.
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The migrant surge at the southern border hit a record of over 2.4 million. Republicans say it's a failure of Biden's policies. The U.N. says, globally, there's never been so many displaced people.
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Under pressure, the government released a report examining the death of an immigrant in ICE custody. The report found multiple failures, but did not indicate they caused the migrant's death.
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Iranians in Charlotte continue to speak out against Iran's Islamic Republic regime and cope — by creating art. Behzad Riazi, a Charlotte-based Iranian artist and cartoonist, immigrated in 2017. After earning his MFA at Penn State, he returned to Charlotte in 2022 to pursue art full-time.
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Thousands of children and parents affected by forced separations at the U.S.-Mexico border during the Trump administration are now getting services, like mental health care and legal support. That’s due to a class-action lawsuit, Ms. L vs. ICE, which reached a settlement earlier this month.
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Venezuelans replaced Mexicans for the first time on record, according to new figures that show September was the second-highest month for arrests of all nationalities.
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The deal, which a federal judge must approve, bars immigration officials from imposing a blanket policy of family separation for the next eight years. It does not provide any monetary compensation.
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A man from El Salvador describes inhumane treatment by Mexican authorities leading up to the deadly fire at a migration detention in Mexico in March.
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As Venezuelans flee economic and political turmoil in Latin America, they’ve quickly become the U.S.'s largest TPS community. Over the coming weeks, tens of thousands of Venezuelans in the U.S. will take their first steps toward establishing the legal right to live and work in the U.S. — at least temporarily, including 17,000 in North Carolina.