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Amnesty

Obama administration moves to change an immigration policy

Global Politics

Under existing U.S. rules, undocumented immigrants must first exit the United States before applying for permanent resident status — even if they’re married to a U.S. citizen or their parent is a U.S. citizen. The Obama administration is trying to change that.

‘Amnesty’: Sensitive Word in the Immigration Debate

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An immigrant ID card from the 1920s and 30s for Rosaura Piñera, who later became a US citizen at age 100.

How amnesty gave a 100-year-old woman a new life in the US

Conflict & Justice

US Still Working Out Deportation Details

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The World

The real American lives of immigrants in Reagan’s 1986 amnesty

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The World

Afghanistan struggles to move on

Global Politics

Afghans are trying to overcome decades of war but it’s proving to be extremely difficult because so many warlords are holding government office, as The World’s Quil Lawrence reports from Kabul.