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Some immigrant families fear filing for financial aid

The World's Global Classroom

Some undocumented parents and students at schools in California and around the country worry that filling out the federal financial aid form, known as FAFSA, will tip off the government to their immigration status. That information isn’t supposed to be shared with other government agencies. But, some say, the new administration means they’re in uncharted waters.

Ukrainian refugees make a home in neighboring Moldova

Ukraine
Two male and one female internationally trained doctors are listening to a presentation.

Highly trained and educated, some foreign-born doctors still can’t practice medicine in the US

Education
Magali Torres

For one immigrant in Florida, a DACA fix would mean ‘peace of mind’

Education
Syrian refugee girl rests inside the Spanish rescue vessel Astral after being rescued by the Spanish NGO Proactiva off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea.

Migrants desperate to flee Libya’s detention camps are being turned back at sea

Conflict
A woman holds her hand over her face and clutches the arm of a man next to her as they walk through the destroyed shopping district in Mogadishu.

Minnesota’s Somali immigrants feel ‘holes’ left after deadly Mogadishu attack

Conflict

One Minnesota man was in Mogadishu for a job interview. Another was about to meet members of his family. Then Somalia’s deadliest terrorist attack happened.

A Salvadoran father carries his son tries as he tries to board a train with another immigrant and head to the Mexican-U.S. border, in Huehuetoca, near Mexico City.

MacArthur grant winner studies the things left behind at the US-Mexico border

Arts

The objects left behind in the desert — bloody socks, diaper bags and water bottles — give Americans a deeper understanding of who immigrants are.

Sonia Saldaña in front of her home in Houston's Kashmere Gardens neighborhood, hit hard by Hurricane Harvey.

Immigrants face impossible choices in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey

Global Politics

“I have no idea what to do.”

Erick Silva Palacios

Young, undocumented and trying to ‘keep my sanity’

Global Politics

“You don’t feel safe anymore. It always feels like we’re tiptoeing our way to 2020, we’re tiptoeing our way to, hopefully, a new president.”

The World

What’s behind the humor of Hasan Minhaj on Netflix

Arts

An interview with the correspondent from “The Daily Show” on his recent presidential roast, releasing a Netflix special and family ties in his comedy.

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