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Alisa Reznick

Alisa Reznick is a journalist and photographer from Flagstaff, Arizona. Her work focuses on migration, the environment and human rights and appears PBS, TIME, Al Jazeera and NPR, among others. She is based between Amman, Jordan and the American Southwest.
Unaccompanied immigrant children in the US lose free legal counsel
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Asylum applications reach an all-time high in the US
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Communities plan for mass deportations as President Trump takes office
6:58
Elections
US presidential election sees ramped-up rhetoric on border and immigration
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Border rhetoric ramps up ahead of presidential election
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New citizens could impact presidential election results
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Open-air sites for migrants on Arizona border
2 years after Kabul’s fall, Afghans who evacuated to the US are in limbo
View from the Mexican side of the border after Title 42
Asylum-seekers await Title 42 decision in Mexico along Arizona border
All-women Afghan tactical force fight to make it to the US
DACA not open for many of this year’s college students
Appeals court rules DACA unlawful but remains in place for now
What’s next for migrants at the US southern border?
How a Haitian school teacher in Arizona welcomes new arrivals
Afghan judge faces legal limbo after evacuation to US
A growing push to halt US-Mexico border wall construction
woman against wall
On Course
These Afghan women soldiers made it out of Afghanistan. Their next battle is making it in the US.
two protesters
On Course
DACA could end in federal court. Most of today’s high school graduates can’t get protection from the program anyway. 
Asylum-seekers pray as part of a vigil following the court order mandating Title 42 remain in place on May 23, 2022.
Immigration
‘That news hit us like a bomb’: Asylum-seekers still in limbo after ruling to keep Title 42 intact
Rodney Montreuil grew up in Cap-Haitien, Haiti and has lived in Phoenix for the last two decades.
Migration
This Haitian schoolteacher helps new arrivals from Haiti resettle in Arizona
Afghan refugees walk through an Afghan refugee camp at Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst, New Jersey, on Sept. 27, 2021. 
Refugees
6 months after evacuation, thousands of Afghan families are waiting to reunite
For the last year, construction workers have passed by Darby Wells en route to the border to build the Trump administration’s 30-foot, steel bollard wall. President-elect Joe Biden has vowed to stop the wall’s construction, but there are still big questio
Borders
Under a Biden presidency, what will become of Trump’s border wall? 
Rita
Conflict
After grisly murder, Kuwait and the Philippines face diplomatic crisis over domestic worker abuse
Mesh fencing with children behind, looking onto US side
Global Politics
Can environmental protection and border security coexist? Not through an impenetrable wall, say Arizona advocates
Um Ala's youngest daughter Hala sits in the family's metal shelter in Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp. Barely a year old when they left Syria, she doesn't remember the family's farm in Daraa's countryside.
Conflict
Photos: What do refugee parents tell their children about Syria?