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The Dark Truth Behind Migration through a Father’s Quest for Justice

May 25 2023
The story of Jorge Velasquez’s quest for justice for the murder of his daughter and the stories of other women seeking help or safe haven from crime and terror simultaneously transcend the individual and teach us all something about humanity and ourselves.
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How American Deportation Trains Represent a Century of American Immigration Policy

Apr 01 2022
By Ethan Blue, author of The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced RemovalThe possibility of expedited resettlement in the US for some of the millions of Ukrainians displaced by the ongoing Russian invasion offers an example of how the United States and other wealthy nations m
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An Unexpected Human Story Behind Our Faulty Immigration Court System

May 26 2021
By Alison Peck, author of The Accidental History of the U.S. Immigration Courts: War, Fear, and the Roots of DysfunctionIn 2018, as Attorney General Sessions handed down one decision after another that foreclosed avenues of immigration relief previously available to our clients, I began to searc
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