Maria Ramirez Uribe
ReporterMaria Ramirez Uribe is a Report for America corps member covering issues involving race, equity and immigration for WFAE and La Noticia, an independent Spanish-language news organization based in Charlotte.
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Haiti’s death toll is nearing 2,000 after last weekend’s earthquake. Now, Charlotte’s Haitian community is coming together to collect supplies to send back home.
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A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti over the weekend, leaving the more than 5,000 Haitians that live in North Carolina reeling for their home country. One local Haitian woman still has family back home and is trying to help them.
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Thousands of North Carolina residents who are in the country illegally are entrepreneurs. They’re running businesses that range from restaurants to nail salons. WFAE caught up with a Charlotte man who started a siding company when he didn’t speak the language, and 20 years later he’s thriving.
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About 70 people gathered in Cornelius on Wednesday night for a rally calling for the removal of a Confederate monument in downtown. It’s been there for 111 years. Protesters marched from the Cornelius Town Hall to Mount Zion United Methodist Church.
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Around 4 million low-income children nationwide could miss out on monthly Child Tax Credit payments, according to a study from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
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North Carolina ranks seventh in the country for most recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. But a new court decision out of Texas has left the more than 12,000 immigrants in the state who are eligible for DACA, but have not yet received it, at a standstill.
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A federal judge in Texas blocked new and pending applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals from being reviewed last Friday. The decision could affect the more than 12,000 in North Carolina who are eligible for the program and have not yet received it.
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Mayda Vargas lost her partner after she says he was killed by gang members in Guatemala. She's now seeking asylum in Charlotte — with one toughest immigration courts in the country — and trying to rebuild the life she left behind.
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The Biden administration directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement to no longer detain immigrants who are pregnant, nursing or within one year postpartum, in a new policy announced on Friday.
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North Carolina ranks last in the country for the likelihood of having legal representation in immigration cases, according to a report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. It also ranks 10th for total pending deportation cases.