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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.
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To discourage migrants, the U.K. wants to deport to Rwanda some who arrive by boat without a visa. Human rights groups have sued, and the Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments on Oct. 9.
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After studying immigration issues for 16 weeks, a dozen students from Queens University of Charlotte visited the border in El Paso, Texas, for five days in early May. They saw how people are empowered by faith and how important it is in their journey to the United States.
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The judge gave Texas until Sept. 15 to move the barrier to shore and barred the state from placing any additional buoys or other structures in the river. Gov. Greg Abbott plans to appeal the ruling.
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Colombian community groups say it’s time to establish a dedicated consular service for the more than 46,000 Colombians who reside in North and South Carolina.
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The wait time for an asylum-seeker in the U.S. to get a work permit is at least half a year. City governments across the country are pressing the federal government to change that.
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The agency says SpaceX often said in its marketing materials for open jobs they couldn't hire U.S. citizens because of export control laws. But asylees and refugees are protected under those laws.
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Following the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, thousands of Afghans migrated to the U.S. Many of them have come to North Carolina — with Mecklenburg County having the second-highest number of arrivals. Journalist Mehr Sher joined us on Morning Edition to talk about the challenges these new arrivals have faced with an underfunded and overwhelmed resettlement system.