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An elderly woman in a wheelchair is rescued from the flood waters of tropical storm Harvey in east Houston, Texas.

One of Houston’s most vulnerable communities faces the floods

August 31, 2017Conflict

A group founded by immigrants in wheelchairs battles Hurricane Harvey.

A view of hands on the window of a prison cell door

Poor health care in immigrant detention centers may get worse under Trump

May 3, 2017Global Politics

Afghan journalist Habib Zahori made a cold trek across the US-Canada border on foot and on bicycle. "I remember thinking, wishing, 'Oh God, please, please send someone to arrest me!’ "

Habib Zahori was scared to seek asylum in the US. So he pushed a rickety bicycle through snow to get to Canada.

February 23, 2017Conflict

Thanksgiving in Hibbing, Minnesota with the family of Korean-American author Marie Myung-Ok Lee.

A mundane Thanksgiving can be the ideal holiday gift

November 24, 2016Global Politics

A woman stands in conference area in front of "Guatemala" sign

How one woman went from ‘Why are these Mexicans here?’ to supporting immigrant businesses

November 7, 2016Business

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Soccer player bites his with a trophy on the field

Euro 2016: Meet the player who scored ‘the most important goal in the history of Portuguese football’

July 11, 2016Sports

Portuguese fans are happy that a kid from Guinea Bissau chose to come to their country as an immigrant. And Éder is happy for what Portugal gave him: a chance to score a miraculous goal.

Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong was born in Saigon and raised in Hartford, Connecticut.

Read this brilliant new poet’s take on the US immigrant experience

April 13, 2016Books

Twenty-eight-year-old Ocean Vuong captures his experience coming from Vietnam to the US in his debut poetry collection “Night Sky with Exit Wounds.”

Baby Eva has yet to meet her Pakistani grandmother.

A Pakistani mom sets out to visit her new American granddaughter, and is turned back at the visa counter

January 5, 2016Justice

Dual citizens from Iraq, Iran, Syria and Sudan are hit by the new US program that restricts their travel. But Pakistanis say they’re victims of a visa clampdown as well.

A bus advertising an American visa lottery in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos.

Nigerians vie for a life-changing slip of paper

June 24, 2015Lifestyle

When immigrants are granted visas, their lives are transformed, and so are the lives of the circle of people around them.

Central American kids wait in life-or-death limbo to see if they can stay in the US

October 6, 2014Justice

Tens of thousands of young Central Americans crossed the US-Mexico border this year, many fleeing violence. Now they must navigate the US asylum system to try and stay here legally, but the system is being overwhelmed by the huge numbers of children.

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