Megan Pociask Staff Writer On Thursday, September 5 at 6 p.m., people from the local community gathered at College Park Baptist Church to witness an Immigration Policy Reform Roundtable, hosted by the League of Women Voters of the Piedmont Triad. After… Read More ›
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The Great Immigrant Panic: 287(g) agreements
Quashon AventStaff Writer North Carolina has a long history of sponsoring disastrous bills. HB2 and SB 824 are some of the more obvious examples. However, there’s been a recent law enforcement bill that even the NC Sheriff’s Association has opposed…. Read More ›
U.S. could take up to 2 years to identify separated immigrant families
Peyton UpchurchStaff Writer According to court documents filed by federal officials on April 5, it may now take up to two years to locate and identify thousands of immigrant children that were separated from their parents at the southern border… Read More ›
Emergency Funds Are For Emergencies, Not A Wall
Ethan BeaulieuStaff Writer On Feb. 15, President Donald Trump announced that he would declare a national emergency in order to tap into reserve funds and build a wall at the southern border. Now, regardless of whether or not you believe… Read More ›
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Returns to Headlines
Marisa SloanStaff Writer From President Trump’s travel ban prohibiting the issuance of visas to citizens of largely-Muslim countries to his attempts to use the legal status of DACA recipients as a gambling piece in his crusade for a border wall,… Read More ›
U.S. to Begin Blocking Asylum Seekers from Entering Across Mexican Border
Tyra HilliardStaff Writer The Trump administration has announced its plan to start blocking a relatively small number of asylum seekers from using the San Ysidro border to enter the United States. The blockade is only the beginning of finding locations… Read More ›
Citizenship Question Could Affect Census Outcome
Luciano GonzalezStaff Writer All over the country, there are ongoing discussions and a legal battle around the constitutionality of putting a citizenship question on the census. In the ongoing legal battle between the Trump administration and various judges who have… Read More ›
MAGA and the Melting Pot
Courtney Cordoza Staff Writer The United States of America is home to 327.5 million citizens. More than 55 million of them are multilingual. Within recent years, there have been a variety of videos that have surfaced online featuring Americans yelling… Read More ›
U.S. Plans to Expand Tent Camp In Texas For Unaccompanied Migrant Children
Tyra Hilliard Staff Writer Towering over a cotton field ready for picking are the giant tents located right beside a border crossing used for salvage cars arriving in Mexico. Any outsiders would never know that those tents serve as temporary… Read More ›
Sexual Abuse Allegations in Arizona Immigration Shelters
Laura Ashley Powell Staff Writer Three minors from El Salvador who were housed in an Arizona shelter while separated from their parents during the Trump Administration’s “Zero Tolerance” policy were allegedly abused sexually by shelter workers. Salvadoran officials told the… Read More ›