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Tania Karas

Tania Karas is a former deputy editor of The World's digital team. She managed a team of editors producing content for our website along with our daily podcast, morning newsletter and social media platforms. Before that, she was a reporter for The World covering global migration and refugees. She was with the show from 2018 to 2021.Originally from Chicago, Tania spent three years in Greece, Turkey and Lebanon working as a foreign correspondent covering the Syrian refugee crisis, European politics and EU-Middle East relations.Prior to that, Tania was a staff reporter for the New York Law Journal, a daily newspaper, where she covered US immigration, legal education and access to justice in New York.She holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and a master's degree in international human rights law from the University of Oxford. Outside of work, Tania is a voracious reader and loves to travel. You can often find her starting dance parties in the newsroom. 
Every 30 Seconds
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A 9-year-old migrant girl from Guatemala sits in the back of a US Border Patrol vehicle after she was apprehended for crossing the border from Mexico in Sunland Park, New Mexico, on June 14, 2018.
10 US immigration issues to watch in 2020
A woman prays during a service
Justice
‘It doesn’t feel very real’: Liberian immigrants in US rejoice at pathway to citizenship
Ramlo Ali Noor, whose immediate family is affected by the Trump administration's cap on refugee numbers, poses at her apartment with her daughter Sumayo in Columbus, Ohio, on Sept. 27, 2019.
Refugees
After Trump order, states scramble to say they will receive refugees
People hold bright yellow signs reading "Defend TPS" in front of the White House in Washington, DC.
The Trump administration extended TPS for Salvadorans. But this activist says the fight is not over.
A group of people holding signs gather in front of a courthouse building
Immigration
Legal status for thousands of Liberians in US hangs on court decision
A woman and a young girl stand together on the banks of a river.
How Trump’s bilateral deals with Central America undermine the US asylum system
Syrian refugees embrace after landing at Chicago's O'Hare airport.
Immigration
US refugee agencies wither as Trump administration cuts numbers to historic lows
A judge shakes hands with a man at his citizenship ceremony
Refugees
What it’s like to become a US citizen after a lifetime of statelessness
A member of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) talks with Venezuelans as they queue in line to receive a vaccine after showing their passports or identity cards at the Pacaraima border control, Roraima state, Brazil, on Aug. 8, 2018.
US leads global ‘race to the bottom’ in shutting door on refugees and asylum-seekers
A woman with a blue shirt on is walking past the camera with a large envelop in her hand covering her face.
Immigration
What difference does one photo make? A lot, at first. Then not much.
An empty water bottle lays on the dirt behind a string of barbed wire
Immigration
Crimes of compassion: US follows Europe’s lead in prosecuting those who help migrants
US President Donald Trump delivers remarks on immigration reform at a podium in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, May 16, 2019
Immigration
Can a ‘merit-based’ immigration system like Canada’s or Australia’s work in the US?
A group of young Haitians are shown sitting around a table in a room without glass in the windows.
Protest
Meet the Petrochallengers: A new generation wants to bring accountability to Haiti. Can they succeed?
US President Donald Trump walks to board Air Force One as he travesl to Florida for Easter weekend, at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, April 18, 2019.
Politics
Mueller Report: Did Trump commit conspiracy? No. But collusion? Maybe.
US border patrol apprehending migrants
Immigration
As judge halts US ‘remain in Mexico’ policy, returned migrants wonder what’s next
Women in green and yellow costumes dance
With no Carnival, Haiti’s musicians lose more than their stage
A portrait of a father wearing a pink shirt and his infant daughter who is wearing white.
Immigration
Why is the US still separating migrant families at the border?
A young girl is lit up on a stage with an enormous dark monster behind her.
Children of TPS join marchers in Washington by staging urgent play: ‘Will somebody please help me?’
Screenshots of Facebook posts
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A young woman in a hijab shows her phone screen to another young woman whose back is turned to the camera. On the phone is Donald Trump.
Immigration
Washington just spent a month in gridlock over the wall. Will Trump’s State of the Union speech change anything?
Three siblings smile and pose while sitting in the pew of a church
Dutch church ends 96-day service as Armenian family spared deportation
A preacher stands at the front of a mostly full church
Immigration
A tale of two sanctuary churches: Congregants in Ohio and the Netherlands find ‘instant connection’
A man is being handed a flier that says "Listen up Arabs" and describes the Census 2010 process.
Here’s why the US census citizenship question stokes mistrust
Three women rest against a fence with their children in their laps
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Alex Bukasa, a Congolese asylum-seeker and former journalist, poses in front of the White House.
Immigration
Last in, first out: Policy change moves longtime US asylum-seekers to back of the line
Congressional Representatives-elect Rashida Tlaib, left, and Ilhan Omar, right, will both use Qurans during their ceremonial swearings-in on Jan. 3, 2019.
Immigration
Two reps were sworn in on the Quran. It’s a symbolic moment for Muslim Americans.
People sit on a fence with a blue sky behind them.
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A man holds a phone with a picture of his granddaughter.
Immigration
US officials reject blame for migrant girl’s death. Advocates point to Trump’s asylum policies.
Two women stand at podium, sign reads, "Wisconsin Proud"
Politics
After an ugly campaign for immigrants, some midterm wins spark a glimmer of hope
Family or four, two girls, man and woman sit together on boardwalk at sunset
Immigration
‘I lost trust in the system,’ says US citizen now unable to reunite with his Yemeni family
A mother is seen holding her child.
Immigration
Trump’s new order on families at the border raises even more questions about what happens next for child migrants
Teenage boys play video games at Casa Padre, a facility for migrant children in Brownsville, Texas.
What reporters couldn’t see when they toured a Texas shelter for child migrants
A woman dresses a girl at a shelter, surrounded by luggage and clothes
Immigration
Immigration judges say Sessions’ decision makes it harder for people facing ‘life and death’ to win asylum in US
US President Donald Trump sits beside South Korea's President Moon Jae-In in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, May 22, 2018.
Global Politics
With cancellation, Trump-Kim summit gets a dose of reality
CIA Director Gina Haspel, wearing dark rimmed glasses, looks right in the medium cropped portrait.
Senators ‘kept in the dark’ as CIA director vote draws near
CIA director nominee Gina Haspel raises her right hand as she is sworn in to testify at her Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation, May 9, 2018.
Conflict & Justice
For some, Haspel for CIA head ‘would be promoting a torturer’
A man's image is blurred as he walks across a giant marble seal in the floor of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
Conflict & Justice
What we know — and what we don’t — about Trump’s controversial pick to lead the CIA
Three members of a caravan of migrants from Central America embrace and pray near the San Ysidro checkpoint after the first fellow migrants entered U.S. territory to seek asylum, at an improvised shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, on April 30, 2018.
How does seeking asylum work at the US border?
Protesters gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC, U.S., April 25, 2018, while the court justices consider case regarding presidential powers as it weighs the legality of President Donald Trump's latest travel ban.
Five takeaways from the Supreme Court’s oral arguments on Trump’s travel ban
A 1983 black-and-white portrait of Gordon Hirabayashi, left, Minoru Yasui, center, and Fred Korematsu.
Justice
As the Supreme Court considers Trump’s travel ban, some want justices to remember a case they decided 74 years ago
Portrait of man's head against rows of lights, dark around him
Conflict
Can Pompeo get the State Department ‘back at the big kids’ table’?
A teenage boy in a white shirt speaks to a group of people holding signs at an outdoor plaza in front of a building with many stone columns.
Education
US teens around the globe organized March For Our Lives events because ‘it doesn’t have to be this way’
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks to the media at the US State Department after being fired by President Donald Trump
Global Politics
‘It’s like starting over’: What Pompeo means for diplomacy
Window with poster about how to handle immigration raids, man behind at table
Justice
The deadline to renew DACA is here, but 36,000 people still have not applied
Woman sitting with papers at table in large space, another's woman's back pictured facing her
Global Politics
Thousands of DACA recipients are scrambling to make the Trump administration’s ‘unworkable and cruel’ deadline
Man holding up ID card for medical school
Justice
DACA recipients won’t go back into the shadows quietly
Man at podium in front of microphones, in front of columns of Supreme Court building
Justice
While Trump considers ending DACA, immigrant advocates say don’t panic — prepare