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    Cuban migrants block the Paso del Norte-Santa Fe international bridge between Mexico and the United States, to demand that the Trump administration allow them to wait for their asylum process on U.S. soil, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Dec. 29, 2020.
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    Asylum Seekers Hope Biden's Pledge To Welcome Immigrants Includes Them

    Jan 22, 2021
    One of the most daunting immigration challenges facing the Biden administration is what to do about the multitudes of migrants who want asylum protection in the United States.
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    Inauguration Day: Live Updates
    President-elect Joe Biden, seen here speaking about national security last month, plans to make good on an election promise to send Congress an immigration bill on Day 1.
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    On Immigration, Biden Goes Big In Opening Bid To Congress

    Jan 20, 2021
    Biden will send Congress a proposal that would protect millions of people from deportation, marking a dramatic turn from President Trump's hardline immigration tack.
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    Pamela and Afshin Raghebi celebrate a birthday together. Afshin, who was born in Iran, has been stuck overseas, away from his U.S. citizen wife, for more than two years after he flew abroad for an interview at a U.S. Consulate as part of his green card a
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    Legacy Of President Trump's Travel Ban Will Be Hard For Biden To Erase

    Jan 20, 2021
    President-elect Biden plans to end the Trump administration's travel ban on Muslim-majority countries on Day 1. But immigrant advocates say the lasting effects of the policy will be harder to undo.
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    Immigrant Advocates Vow To Keep Up The Pressure As Biden Asks For Patience

    Dec 23, 2020
    President-elect Joe Biden says he will roll back many of President Donald Trump's actions on immigration — but it will take longer than immigrant advocates might have hoped.
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    Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody

    Dec 22, 2020
    More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
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    Katalin Karikó works at BioNTech, the company that partnered with Pfizer to make the first COVID-19 vaccine to get emergency authorization in the U.S.
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    If COVID-19 Vaccines Bring An End To The Pandemic, America Has Immigrants To Thank

    Dec 18, 2020
    Scientists and investors born outside the U.S. played crucial roles in the development of COVID-19 vaccines — a remarkable vindication for the argument that innovation depends on immigration.
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    Joe Biden, the then-2020 Democratic presidential nominee, right, and President Trump speak during the Oct. 22, 2020 presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee
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    On Immigration, Activists' Demands May Exceed Biden Realities

    Dec 13, 2020
    Joe Biden has promised to reverse the Trump administration's most restrictive immigration policies. But he did not include immigration as one of his four core priorities.
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    A former FARC guerrilla member waves a FARC political party flag during a demonstration in Bogota on Nov. 2. A federal court overturned an asylum decision Wednesday, holding that FARC death threats counted as persecution.×
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    Death Threats, Even In Writing, Can Be Grounds For Asylum, Appeals Court Says

    Nov 26, 2020
    The court overturned a Justice Department decision denying the asylum of a former Colombia police officer who received multiple death threats from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
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    Protesters gather for a news conference in Atlanta earlier this year, shortly after the release of a complaint by whistleblower Dawn Wooten, a nurse at Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga.
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    U.S. Agrees To Pause Deportations For Women Alleging Abuse At ICE Facility

    Nov 24, 2020
    Dozens of immigrant women have said they received unwanted gynecological procedures at Irwin County Detention Center. Yet even as authorities investigate, the accusers have been in danger of removal.
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    In the Guadalupe Canyon in southeastern Arizona, work crews are dynamiting mountainsides and bulldozing access roads in this stunning landscape to make way for the border wall. Mexico is on the left.
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    Trump's Border Wall Builders Carry On Even Though Projects May Never Be Completed

    Nov 16, 2020
    Builders are hurrying to get as many miles completed as possible before President-elect Joe Biden can cancel contracts. Biden has said his administration would stop building the wall.
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    Nevada's Immigrant Communities Respond To The Election

    Nov 13, 2020

    Joe Biden won the presidential election – in Nevada, his lead over President Donald Trump continues to grow as more ballots get counted.

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    The Senate side of the Capitol is seen in Washington, D.C., early Monday. Experts say President-elect Joe Biden's ability to reshape the U.S. immigration system will be sharply limited if Republicans retain control of the Senate.
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    On Immigration, Biden's Biggest Promises Likely Hinge On Who Controls The Senate

    Nov 09, 2020
    President-elect Biden is expected to quickly reverse some of the Trump administration's most controversial policies. But his ability to reshape immigration would be limited in a divided government.
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    Trump Immigration Rule Takes Effect Again During Appeal

    Nov 05, 2020

    CHICAGO (AP) — A Trump administration immigration rule that would deny green cards to immigrants who use public benefits like food stamps is back in effect while a U.S. appeals court considers the case.

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    Iván and his mother, Hilda Ramirez, have taken refuge in a suburban church in Austin, Texas, for more than four and a half years. She says they fled his abusive grandfather in Guatemala five years ago, made it to the Texas border, and asked for asylum f
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    Sanctuary Immigrants Take Refuge In Texas Church, Watch Election Closely

    Nov 02, 2020
    President Trump's immigration policies are on the line and many are hoping Joe Biden will follow through on pledges to help immigrants and asylum-seekers if he wins the election.
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    Honduran migrants walking in a group stop before Guatemalan police in January near Agua Caliente, Guatemala. The Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says U.S. immigration agents in Guatemala helped officials deport Hondurans travel
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    Democratic Lawmakers Denounce DHS 'Ad Hoc' Migrant Deportations In Guatemala

    Oct 29, 2020
    Democratic lawmakers are demanding more information from the Trump administration about U.S. agents working in Guatemala to round up Honduran migrants and send them to the Guatemala-Honduras border.
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    David Xol of Guatemala hugs his son Byron as they were reunited at Los Angeles International Airport in January. The father and son were separated 18 months earlier under the Trump administration's "no tolerance" migration policy.
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    Parents Of 545 Children Separated At U.S.-Mexico Border Still Can't Be Found

    Oct 21, 2020
    A court filing says many of the parents are presumed to no longer be in the United States. Efforts to locate them have been hampered by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the filing.
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    How Will Latino Voters Affect The Election?

    Sep 30, 2020

    Candidates for the upcoming election are vying for every vote available, and there may be no voter group more coveted than the Latinos and Hispanics.

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    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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    ICE Almost Deported Immigrant Woman Who Says She Got Unwanted Surgery While Detained

    Sep 16, 2020
    As explosive allegations were coming to light about immigrant women who say they've been subjected to unwanted hysterectomies and other procedures, one of those detainees was nearly deported.
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    National
    A panel of judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, pictured in San Francisco, ruled on Monday that the Trump administration can end humanitarian protections for immigrants from four countries, clearing a path for their eventual deporta
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    Court Rules Government Can End Humanitarian Protections For Some 300,000 Immigrants

    Sep 14, 2020
    Critics say ending Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan will devastate families and communities, especially during the coronavirus pandemic.
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    National
    Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has vowed to roll back many of President Trump's immigrations policies — but he faces obstacles.
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    Biden Pledges To Dismantle Trump's Sweeping Immigration Changes — But Can He Do That?

    Sep 14, 2020
    The Trump administration has undertaken more than 400 executive actions on immigration, according to the Migration Policy Institute. Biden has vowed to roll back many policies — but faces obstacles.
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    An attendee holds an American flag at a U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services naturalization ceremony in Miami, Fla. in Aug. 2018. The Trump administration is considering expanding its collection of biometric data as part of the immigration process.
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    Trump Administration Seeking To Expand Collection Of Biometric Data From Immigrants

    Sep 01, 2020
    The proposed policy, which DHS called "imminent" on Tuesday, would allow the government to demand more personal data from more people as part of the immigration process.
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    Fund Being Established To Help Nevada's Immigrant Communities

    Sep 01, 2020

    Nevadan and first-generation immigrant Duncan Lee has partnered with the Governor’s Office for New Americans to establish the Esperanza Fund.

    It will support Nevada’s immigrant communities and strengthen nonprofits working with them. 

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    Law
    A U.S. district judge disagrees with the Trump administration's argument that U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees are adequately trained to screen asylum claims.
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    'Poppycock!': Federal Judge Bars CBP Employees From Screening Asylum-Seekers

    Sep 01, 2020
    "The training requirements cited in the government's declaration do not come close to being 'comparable' to the training requirements of full asylum officers," U.S. District Judge Richard Leon writes.
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    Politics
    Vice President Mike Pence speaks on the third day of the Republican National Convention at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine in Baltimore.
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    Fact-Checking 6 Claims VP Pence Made About Biden's Record In His RNC Speech

    Aug 27, 2020
    Pence warned that a Biden administration would threaten American freedoms and crumble the nation's economy. In making that case, Pence deployed several inaccurate or questionable claims.
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    National
    Honduran migrants, Ricardo Sr., (left), his son Ricardo Jr., 13, and his cousin Jorge, 16, walk near their home in Texas. When the two teenage boys crossed the border illegally into Texas last month, they turned themselves in to the Border Patrol. They w
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    Shadow Immigration System: Migrant Children Detained In Hotels By Private Contractors

    Aug 20, 2020
    The children are held at hotels, instead of shelters, until they can be put on planes to their home countries. This bypasses the normal process that gives children a chance to ask for asylum.
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