Far From Home

How risk of deportation shadows immigrant families with undocumented members

An estimated 16 million people live in mixed-status families in the United States. Their challenges are unique and sometimes divisive.

Trauma lingers in US for Honduran family scarred by gang murder (VIDEO)

Meet the evangelical preacher who teaches unaccompanied migrant girls how to sew

Justice

Mexico ‘a death trap for migrants’ one year after new border program launched

Justice

How one man escaped El Salvador’s cycle of violence

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Problems in the US immigration court system are seemingly endless

Thousands of Central American minors are caught in the system.

US conservatives battle over immigration message as presidential race intensifies

President Obama won around 75 percent of the Latino vote in 2012. Republicans may lose out again with anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Sexual violence plagues young women attempting to flee Central America

Sandra was one of the eighty percent of migrant women who are sexually assaulted as they escape to the US through Mexico.

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