immigration

Appeals court delivers setback to Obama’s immigration plan

By Kevin McGill, Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS -- A federal appeals court has ruled against President Barack Obama's plan to protect an estimated 5 million people living in the United States illegally from deportation.

Update: Honduran woman profiled in NewsHour story granted new hearing to seek refuge in U.S.

By John Carlos Frey, Stephen Fee

A 19-year-old domestic abuse victim from Honduras, profiled two weeks ago on PBS NewsHour Weekend, will receive another opportunity to seek refuge in the United States.

With few lawyers, child migrants fight alone in court to stay in the U.S.

By PBS News Hour

For the thousands of unaccompanied, undocumented minors fleeing brutal violence in Central America and attempting to enter the U.S., making the case to stay isn't easy. Because they aren't guaranteed a lawyer, about half of these children are forced to…

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For poet Fatimah Asghar, the word ‘orphan’ has more than one meaning

By Corinne Segal

English needs to be broken, according to poet Fatimah Asghar. For Asghar, that goal is a reason to create spoken word poetry, using the language in new ways and to address stories at the margins, including her own.

Inside the ‘pure hell’ of Honduras’s rising tide of domestic violence

By PBS News Hour

In Honduras, poverty, gang violence and corruption are fueling a domestic-violence epidemic in the Central American country where on average, a woman is murdered every 13 hours. As a result, many Honduran women flee the country and become part of…

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When marriage and citizenship don’t go hand in hand

By P. J. Tobia, Alexandra Hall

In the 1990 romantic comedy Green Card, an American girl played by Andie MacDowell marries French guy Gérard Depardieu. It’s a win-win. He gets citizenship. She gets to put “married” on an application for a fabulous Manhattan apartment that weirdly…

Chicana writer on the poetry embedded in her migrant father’s rough hands

By Corinne Segal

Poet and activist Marilynn Montaño did not know what it meant for her parents to be undocumented until middle school. Montaño, who was born in the U.S., witnessed her parents’ efforts to gain papers that would allow them to legally…

U.S. deports fewest immigrants in nearly a decade

By Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press

The Obama administration deported fewer immigrants over the past 12 months than at any time since 2006, according to government figures obtained by The Associated Press.

Carson says jihadists will try to enter U.S. with Syrian refugees

By Thomas Beaumont, Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said the U.S. should bar refugees from war-torn Syria because they are "infiltrated with Jihadists," who seek to harm America.

How one Guatemalan family joined Alaska’s small Hispanic community

By Alaska Public Media

For Kimberly Mejía Gúzman and her five siblings, moving from Guatemala to Anchorage, A.K. meant the promise of new opportunities -- but it also meant leaving their home behind.