‘Most of our friends didn’t make it to their 18th birthdays.’ Many of these gang members are under 24. Some are children as young as 11. With few work or educational opportunities, many gang members say they have turned to the armed groups as a way of earning quick...
Thousands of mostly Haitian asylum seekers have gathered under the bridge that connects Del Rio in Texas and Mexico’s Ciudad Acuña, creating a makeshift camp with few basic services in intense heat. More than 50 Democratic lawmakers urged the Biden administration to...
On Day 7 of Community Supported Film’s 10 day New Immigrant and Refugee Visions (NIRV) film festival, Braulio Tellez-Vilches brings us an excerpt from his film, Lift with Your Heart, about Haitian choreographer and dancer Jean Appolon. Braulio emigrated from Cuba in...
November 10, 2017, for The Boston Herald Thousands more immigrants are living in Massachusetts under Temporary Protected Status than previously thought. The Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition says 12,326 people from 10 countries have the temporary...
By: Anthony Man, September 18, 2017, for the Sun Sentinel The South Florida congressional delegation and both of the state’s U.S. senators issued a bipartisan plea to the Trump administration on Monday to extend temporary protected status for Haitian nationals in the...
