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From left to right: Maria Perez, Vania Davina, Hulyana Rodriguez and Yareli Suarez were members of Dreamers Welcome, a student organization at Cardinal Stritch University.

With the closure of Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee’s undocumented students lose a home

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A financial deficit that forced Cardinal Stritch University in Wisconsin to close down left many of Milwaukee’s undocumented community with nowhere to go. Stritch was seen as a welcoming place for undocumented students facing additional barriers to higher education. Now, students are trying to replicate its services at other colleges.

Cars head along FDR Drive next to the Manhattan skyline in New York

A New York proposal could allow noncitizens in the city to vote in elections

Immigration
Students stand in a line in front of the US Supreme Court with signs that read "Home is here"

A new generation of DACA youth depends on Biden for support

Immigration
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is shown wearing a dark suit and standing behind a microphone with a Turkish flag nearby.

‘Draconian’ social media legislation passed in Turkey; Trump administration issues DACA memo; Tech CEOs testify.

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A child looks out from a door as a Uighur woman walks by

New reports on surveillance, ‘demographic genocide’ of Uighurs; Israel hesitates on annexation; Russian election comes to close

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Madai Zamora, a former DACA recipient, now lives with her husband in San Luis Potosí in central Mexico.

These DACA recipients hit a ceiling in the US. So they left.

Immigration

A small but growing global community of people who once had DACA are giving up on a country that has struggled to pass comprehensive immigration reform for a generation. They’re moving abroad instead.

A close-up portrait of Jessica Esparza, 27, a DACA recipient and intensive care unit nurse at Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee, Washington.

DACA health workers risk their lives to fight COVID-19 while they await SCOTUS ruling

COVID-19

Nearly 30,000 DACA recipients work as health care professionals. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the industry needs them more than ever. Their fate lies in a Supreme Court decision that could come any week now.

Portrait of woman in graduation cap and gown with man whose are is around her shoulder

A medical student lives out the dreams of her undocumented father — even if he is deported

Education

Belsy Garcia Manrique, a 27-year-old medical student in Chicago, came to the US from Guatemala as a child and is protected under DACA. But her 51-year-old father Felix Garcia is scheduled for deportation after 23 years in the US.

Donald Trump stands on the steps of Air Force One waving with the seal of the president to his right.

Trump says DACA deal for young immigrants is off

Justice

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that there will be no deal to legalize the status of young adult immigrants who are currently protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.

US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, wearing a blue blazer and red tie, testifies in Washington.

US to add citizenship question in 2020 Census

Justice

A question about citizenship status will be included on the 2020 Census to help enforce the Voting Rights Act, federal officials said on Monday, but California sued to block the move arguing that it would discourage immigrants from participating.

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