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Ashley Cleek is a reporter and producer working on stories about law and immigration. She's reported stories for PRI in Turkey, India, Ukraine and Russia, and across the US. She lives in New York but still calls Alabama home.
Immigration
The government says it will help reunite families they separated at the border — but not all of them
Immigration
The government says Border Patrol agents in the Southwest speak Spanish — but many migrants speak Indigenous languages
Immigration
This mother, already deported, doesn’t know if she’ll ever be reunited with the daughter taken from her at the US border
Immigration
For this mother and daughter, separated a year ago at the southern border, Trump’s ‘zero-tolerance’ policy isn’t new
Conflict
With smuggling costs skyrocketing, parents balance risk and debt for their children’s future
Global Politics
The courts called him a terrorist, but one judge and several politicians want him to be able to stay in the US
Economics
A Puerto Rican enclave in Brooklyn confronts the realities of rising prices and gentrification
Culture
If you want to convey a sense of lawlessness in Persian, Turkish or Norwegian, just say ‘Texas’
Arts, Culture & Media
You probably don’t know his name, but this Nashville musician is HUGE in Sweden
Arts, Culture & Media
You probably don’t know his name, but this Nashville musician is HUGE in Sweden
Lifestyle & Belief
In his first days in the US, a Syrian Muslim connected with Americans through the Bible
