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Immigration
Closing the Darién Gap with a barbed-wire fence
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Migration
Migrants say crossing Mexico has become increasingly challenging
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Many parts of the United States are desperately in need of doctors, especially in rural and medically underserved areas.
The World's Global Classroom
Virginia bill would give alternate licensing path to foreign doctors
Scores of African migrants crowd in winter-wear at a US border wall
Migration
‘My life is in danger’: More Africans are choosing to migrate to the US
The border between Belarus and Latvia is about 100 miles long and is partially separated by a fence monitored by border officers.
Migration
A migrant crisis at the Latvia-Belarus border
St. Paul and St. Andrew is located on West 86th street, in Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Migration
New York City is trying to turn houses of worship into shelters
Two girls holding paper signs that say "Education is our right"
The World's Global Classroom
Afghan student struggles with adjusting to life in the US
Zhayreth, Adriana, Freddy and Freydar Torres sit on the stoop of their apartment in Dorchester.
Migration
With strife behind them, a young migrant family prepares to seek asylum in Boston
Migrants and asylum seekers attend the Sunday Spanish-language service at The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Brooklyn, New York.
Immigration
New York City urges migrants to find shelter elsewhere, but many don’t know where to turn
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Immigration
San Diego doctor says height of the border wall is leading to more injuries from falls
From left to right: Maria Perez, Vania Davina, Hulyana Rodriguez and Yareli Suarez were members of Dreamers Welcome, a student organization at Cardinal Stritch University.
The World's Global Classroom
With the closure of Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee’s undocumented students lose a home
Professor Juan Madrid with his students from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley at a radio telescope in Fort Davis in West Texas.
The World's Global Classroom
1-HOUR SPECIAL: Breaking Barriers: The challenges immigrants face in accessing higher education
The CAFEMIN shelter in Mexico City is designed for 80 people, but it's currently hosting 500, with most of them sleeping on gym mats in the shelter's basketball court.
Immigration
Shelters for migrants in Mexico City overwhelmed as US changes its asylum rules
man at podium
Immigration
Afghans who fled to the US hope that Congress will fix their status 
Three families from Afghanistan prepare to board a boat in Necocli, Colombia, that will take them towards the border with Panama.
Immigration
Afghan families traverse most of Latin America to seek asylum at the US border
President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meet.
Migration
Biden seeks allies on migration crisis at US-Mexico border
Venezuelan migrants board a boat in the Colombian city of Necocli that will take them closer to Panama, the next stop on the way to the United States
Migration
New Biden policy leaves thousands of Venezuelan migrants stranded
Roberto Marquez of Dallas adds a flower a makeshift memorial at the site where officials found dozens of people dead in an abandoned semitrailer containing suspected migrants, Wednesday, June 29, 2022, in San Antonio. 
Critical State
Absurd lines: Part II
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
María Teresa Navas Mejía, a long-term employee at the University of Colorado Boulder, recently received her green card thanks to Carina De La Torre and students in Colorado Law’s Immigration Defense Clinic.
On Course
Colorado law students gain ‘powerful’ lessons providing free legal services to immigrants
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a media statement at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. 
Refugees
As Canada prioritizes expedited arrivals for Ukrainians, at-risk Afghans remain trapped abroad
A Customs and Border Protection officer stands at the entrance to the San Ysidro Port of Entry as a boy sings for change among the waiting cars Wednesday, March 2, 2022, seen from Tijuana, Mexico. 
Migration
Russians and Ukrainians attempt to flee to the US through Mexico
The office of the Culinary Workers Union is seen through a car window in Las Vegas, Nov. 9, 2020. The union represents 60,000 people, most of them immigrants, in the Las Vegas area who work in the hospitality industry. 
Jobs
Undocumented people bring grassroots organizing skills to the labor movement
Migrants leave Huixtla, Chiapas state, Mexico, early Oct. 27, 2021, as they continue their trek north toward Mexico's northern states and the US border.
Migration
Thousands of migrants heading north to the US-Mexico border face a ‘collapsed’ asylum system, advocates say
A health worker inoculates a man next to a banner thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine at a government hospital in New Delhi, India
Top of The World
A milestone for India: 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses administered.
Dozens of people turned out at a rally in Newport in June of 2019 to protest the detention of three migrant farmworkers there
Immigration
Migrant farmworkers fight to end collaboration between Vermont police and US Customs and Border Protection
A vehicle in Canada waits for a gate to rise while crossing into Derby Line, Vt. from Stanstead, Quebec, July 11, 2018.
Immigration
Canada tries to boost immigration by fast-tracking applications
Aerial view of the green vegetation of the Darien jungle
Migration
46K migrants risked their lives crossing the Darién Gap in 2021. That’s more than the last three years combined.
Blue British National Overseas passports (BNO) and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China passports are displayed
Migration
Tens of thousands of Hong Kongers have applied for special new UK visas
Vice president Kamala Harris, in a blue suit, speaks to reporters
Borders
Vice President Kamala Harris calls situation at the US-Mexico border ‘tough’ during visit there
Students stand in a line in front of the US Supreme Court with signs that read "Home is here"
Immigration
A new generation of DACA youth depends on Biden for support
Wide shot of snowy barren land with a white car parked in the middle
Top of The World
Contentious Keystone XL pipeline project canceled
Advocates gather outside the county building in McHenry County, Woodstock, Illinois, on Tuesday, May 18, 2021.
Immigration
ICE contracts at local, regional level spark contentious debate
Figures of a 7-year-old migrant girl walking with a woman and unidentified man silhouetted at night
Borders
Many asylum-seekers are returned at the US-Mexico border under Title 42. Advocates call it a ‘sham.’
Street shot showing sign pointing to the USA, with a white truck driving down road, and colorful letters spelling Sonoyta, against backdrop of hills.
Migration
Inside a migrant shelter for men: Untold stories of trauma, challenges
A hand holds up a cartoon in front of the Capitol dome of the Statue of Liberty hugging a Muslim hijabi girl.
Refugees
Refugees stuck in limbo over Biden’s inaction to restore admissions program
An attendee at the House Homeland Security Committee field hearing at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi, holds a sign written in English and Spanish, stating "Let us work," Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. 
Business, Economics and Jobs
Seasonal workers have long faced gender and pay discrimination. Now there’s a way to file direct complaints.
People stand in front of a church door with protest signs on it.
Migration
‘We cannot continue to live like this’: Migrants desperate to work occupy Brussels church
An inmate wearing an orange suit mops near blue plastic bags inside a detention center.
Migration
Immigrants, rights activists call on Biden to end private detention
A Honduran migrant woman carries a child on her back as they travel with other migrants by foot along a highway in Chiquimula, Guatemala,  Jan. 16, 2021, in hopes of reaching the U.S. border
How the Biden administration might undo some of Trump’s immigration policies
Two people stand at a protest with a loud speaker in their hands.
Health
A therapists’ network supports immigrants, advocates during pandemic 
Rescue workers carry the body of a dead migrant after a boat with 35 migrants from the Maghreb region capsized at the beach of Orzola, in the Canary Island of Lanzarote, Spain, Nov. 25, 2020.
Immigration
Canary Islands face influx of migrants from West Africa
Democratic US presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks at an outdoor "Black Economic Summit" while campaigning for president in Charlotte, North Carolina, Sept. 23, 2020.
2020 US presidential election
‘Much more diverse than people think’: Black immigrants are reshaping the Black electorate
Three men wearing orange prison suits fold their hands in their laps and wear blue shoes.
Immigration
ICE detainees go on hunger strike to press for COVID-19 protections
Khafre Jay, the executive director of Hip Hop for Change, based in Oakland, says he has experienced anti-black actions from Indian Americans when visiting his in-laws in Sunnyvale, a suburb of the Bay Area that is majority South Asian.
A Black radio host calls on South Asian Americans to reject racism
Several African women sit in a room with light blue walls, next to luggage and personal belongings.
Migrant workers stuck in Beirut in wake of blast
A migrant father and child returns to Ciudad Juárez after he had his family's court dates changed by Customs and Border Protection on the Paso del Norte International Bridge after court cancelations amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Ciud
Justice
Why US immigration judges are leaving the bench in record numbers
Chanthon Bun, who was incarcerated for 23 years, part of that time in San Quentin State Prison in California, shows artwork from an origami course offered in the prison.
Immigration
He’s out of prison and has COVID-19. But he’s still sheltering from ICE.
Brayan Guevara in front of Irving Park Elementary School, in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he is a teacher's assistant, June 3, 2020.
Every 30 Seconds
This young Afro Latino teacher and voter wants to be a model for his students
A students sits on the steps of Widener Library at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 21, 2009.
Education
Universities scramble to help international students stay in US after new visa restrictions
Two students walk through a college campus
Immigration
Visa restrictions on Chinese students will disadvantage US, says Queens College president
Inside of a bike shop with a large American flag in sunlight
Business, Economics and Jobs
Nantucket businesses struggle without seasonal summer workers 
Madai Zamora, a former DACA recipient, now lives with her husband in San Luis Potosí in central Mexico.
Immigration
These DACA recipients hit a ceiling in the US. So they left.
Medici Fountain, Luxembourg Gardens
Books
This writer is grappling with the paradox of public parks in Paris
People visit the Empty Sky Memorial
Top of The World
Experts update predictions on economic crisis; Iraqi protesters are regrouping; Saving a trove of Viking artifacts
Migrants are seen at temporary shelter in the village of La Penita, Panama, on August 23, 2019.
Migration
‘We’re dead here’: Migrants stranded in Panama rainforest amid coronavirus
Harjot Singh Khalsa (left) and Rajkaranbir Singh are hosts of Punjabi Radio USA, which provides valuable information to immigrant workers.
Immigrant ‘digital first responders’ provide vital services. They’re in a financial crisis. 
San Francisco Mayor London Breed Discusses the City’s Response to COVID-19 2020-04-22
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A detainee talks with an employee in an exam room in the medial unit during a media tour at Northwest ICE Processing Center
COVID-19
ICE gets sued to release immigrant detainees amid COVID-19 pandemic
An aerial view of a detention center
Refugees
Australia detained this family on a remote island — alone