Texas hospitals must ask patients starting Friday whether they are in the U.S. legally and track the cost of treating people without legal status.
Texas hospitals must now ask patients whether they’re in the US legally. Here’s how it works
Category: Immigration
Activists call for more funding for migrant and homelessness services in Chicago’s 2025 budget
Immigrant rights activists urged Mayor Brandon Johnson and the City Council at a Thursday news conference to maintain funding for migrant and homelessness services in next year’s budget.
This ‘friendly’ Wisconsin town might be the most divided place in America
Algoma is known in Wisconsin as a sleepy, charming little place, a draw for tourists with its charter fishing trips, antique shops and beachfront boardwalk that is perfect for a lakeside stroll. What is less widely known is its unusually deep political divide.
Migrant families separated under Trump still feel the fallout and they fear his return to office
Sixteen-year-old Billy’s friends at his rural high school in the South don’t know he was one of thousands of children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border under then-President Donald Trump’s zero tolerance immigration policy.
As Trump threatens mass deportations, some rural areas that back him rely heavily on immigrant labor
COCHRANE, Wisconsin — Dozens of calves groaned as Hermenegildo, a young Mexican farmworker, wheeled out a cart with bottles of milk. He attached the bottles to the wood pen of each calf, walking up and down the row as the animals guzzled the milk in minutes. The 600 cows on the dairy farm produce 5,000 gallons a day, which are trucked for processing into cheese at a plant owned by a Minnesota cooperative. Farm owner John Rosenow credits immigrant labor with sustaining his business, estimating that at least 90% of the workers on Wisconsin dairy farms are unauthorized. He turned […]
Mayor Brandon Johnson to shut down migrant shelters, combine with existing homeless system in 2024
Under the new Chicago set-up that takes effect in January, the city will have 6,800 total beds for homeless people, whether they are new arrivals or not.
A group of 2,000 migrants in southern Mexico depart for the US weeks before election
A group of about 2,000 migrants left Mexico’s southern border Sunday hoping to reach the country’s north and ultimately the United States
These Parkland shooting survivors were promised visas. They’re still waiting.
Little did the Parkland shooting survivors know then that the well-intentioned U visa program is among the most dysfunctional in the whole troubled immigration apparatus.
Immigrants help power America’s economy. Will the election value or imperil them?
Immigration has become a source of fright and frustration for voters in this presidential election — with possible outcomes that could take the United States down two dramatically different paths.
Venezuelan refugees reunited with their cat, thanks to rescue group; ‘We couldn’t leave her as if she was a toy’
They say love comes suddenly and unexpectedly, sometimes during the most tumultuous times in life, said Carlos Salazar, a native of Venezuela who now lives in Rogers Park. He met his partner Efren Monsalve in Peru after they escaped the turmoil and economic crisis ravaging their home country. They found a home in each other, they said, now sitting on a couch in their apartment, seemingly a million miles away from friends and family. But their family wasn’t complete. They’d been missing their cat, Katzel, after they had to make the hard decision to leave her in Peru when they […]