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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.
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As one of the worst heat waves on record set in across much of the southern United States, barrels of life-saving water for wayward migrants traveling on foot have vanished.
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When migrants from Latin America were flown from Texas and dropped off in Sacramento with nowhere to go, a group of congregations came together to care for them.
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It’s time for a fact-check of North Carolina politics. This week we’re looking at a claim made by Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx, whose district stretches from Winston-Salem to the border with Tennessee. During a recent committee hearing in which Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern, of Massachusetts, said some migrants who need housing in the U.S. are asylum seekers, Foxx suggested they had not gone through the proper legal process.