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April Hmong Heritage Month


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

April 22: Earth Day

May 3: World Press Freedom Day

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Video: Uyghur man bids to save ‘most extraordinary mom in the world’ from Chinese detention camp

“Surviving China”: Uyghur Voices from Xinjiang and Guantanamo

‘This Has Been Delayed For Too Long’, Uighur testifies at US Senate

‘The Past is Repeating Itself’, observes Holocaust survivor

More needs to be done to tackle child trafficking in Wales

UT Romani Scholar Honored By Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II

Bulgarian Government Set for Sweeping Victory in EU Elections after Anti-Roma Violence

Anti-Semitism threatens Romania’s fragile Jewish community

Trump and Netanyahu Are Breaking the Bond Between American Jews and Israel

Finland’s racialised minorities worry after nationalist gains

Millions of Chinese students to be sent to “minority areas”; China doubles down on Tibet control during anniversary period

200 Indian MPs, Bihar Chief Minister join calls for India’s highest civilian honour for Dalai Lama

April 20, the day Dalai Lama reached Mussoorie 60 years ago

One of the last surviving Hmong war heroes has died

Hmong women share stories of surviving genocide

DeLong students celebrate Hmong Heritage Month

Nicaragua crisis: One year in, more than 60,000 have fled, seeking refuge

Nicaragua refugees: ‘I don’t understand why people hate us’

Taking Australia’s asylum seekers was a ‘deal with the devil:’ former Nauru leader

Bangladesh Struggles To Cope With Pressures Of Hosting 1 Million Rohingya Refugees

Renewed campaign to wipe out surviving Rohingya will be the most savage yet

‘We’re broken’: Rohingya on hunger strike in Saudi detention

Trump’s latest immigration plan targets African countries whose citizens overstay visas

Tajikistan: Rahmon pleads with Putin for amnesty on deported migrants

Mexico deports 204 migrants back to Honduras

How Scotland erased Guyana from its past

Libya: UN-backed PM says 800,000 migrants could reach Europe amid instability

March of the Living in Budapest honors Scottish missionary who refused to abandon her Jewish pupils

Barotse Activist Mukwae Wabei Siyolwe Presents Wade in the Water

In Russia, calling yourself Circassian is always political

Overwhelmed by Illegal Migrant Drop-offs, Las Cruces Appeals for Donations

After Years of Explosive Growth, Migration to the West and the South Slows

Who’s funding the migrant caravans?

Trump officials say sanctuary city migrant plan is under review

Mapping the Global Migration of Millionaires

Denmark: Man suspected of placing grenade in Copenhagen

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Migrants in Boom and Bust


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

April 8: International Romani day

April 22: Earth Day

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Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao is no paradise for fleeing Venezuelans, report says

This Man’s Aunt Was Jailed Days After He Met With Mike Pompeo Over China’s Muslim Crackdown

‘We Need to Keep Our Language Alive’: Inside a Uyghur Bookshop in Istanbul

Migrant chaos: Clashes as thousands march to Greece after false rumour of open border

Mohajirs, Baloch, Gilgit-Baltistanis, Pashtuns and other minorities protest Pakistan govt atrocities

Dutch Kurdish woman, 5-month-old daughter jailed in Turkey

Tibetans Will Never Forget India’s Safety Provided to Dalai Lama

Sixty years after uprising, exiled Tibetans yearn for home

Rita Ora surprises 400 schoolchildren back home in her native Kosovo to support Soccer Aid for UNICEF 2019

Kosovo’s biggest exodus to be remembered by keeping train in museum

How Basque Food Got to Northern Nevada

The Basque Sheepherders in the West

Igbo in Canada unveil fresh plans for Biafra Memorial Day for over 3 million victims of Nigerian civil war

Trackers placed in Puigdemont’s cars during meetings in Brussels hotel

The last Irish priest in Wyoming

Irish family facing deportation from Australia after son diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis

Slave-masters used illegally-trafficked Lithuanian men to gather chickens at free-range farms that supply firm that owns the Happy Egg Company and Gu Puds brands and forced them to work by using Rottweilers

Organic pineapple offers migrants work and dignity in Togo

Kuwait to impose compulsory health insurance fees for expats

Bangladesh on mission mode to bring back 101 trafficking victims from Vanuatu

Bangladeshis trafficked to Vanuatu want resettlement in New Zealand or Australia

Caravan with hundreds of migrants leaves Honduras towards US

Immigrants’ Role in Tourism Boom in Iceland

Iceland: Higher Unemployment and Fewer Foreign Workers Expected

Croatia’s Woes Leave it Second Only to Bulgaria in Underdevelopment

The Indian Diaspora’s Influence on the General Election

Migrants flee to Niger as fighting worsens in Libya

Chickenpox, The Latest Burden On The Rohingya Refugees

Improving the Living Conditions of Refugee Host Communities in Mauritania

Only 1% of diaspora Ukrainians voted in presidential election. Should the system be changed?

Pence says migrant family separations in the US will not return

Coyotes’ Boomtown: Picking Up The Migrant Trail On The Way To The U.S.-Mexico Border

Inspired by migrant caravans, new wave of Cubans seek U.S. asylum

How Schools Are Responding to Migrant Children

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Positive Migration? Hit House Prices!


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

April 6: Tartan Day, North American celebration of Scottish heritage

April 8: International Romani day

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Catalonia unites in cross-party commitment to ‘responsible’ migration debate

Immigrants Earn 8% Less Than Icelanders

Dissident Czech literary master Milan Kundera at 90

Kyrgyz Students Vanish Into Xinjiang’s Maw

War and refuge: Minnesota Opera to set Hmong story to music

Kurd to become mayor of London borough

Ethnic minority firefighters who ‘were told to stay in back of the truck so their presence wouldn’t hit house prices’

Garda recruitment drive targets people from all minority groups

Brunei’s LGBT community flees ‘inhumane’ new stoning laws

Racism, bureaucracy, uncertainty: Refugee crisis brews in Cyprus

Lithuania provided info to Belarusian KGB on asylum seeker

Rediscovering Latvian roots: an architect’s story

Texas Senate declares migrant surge an emergency

The Story of Migration Is More Positive Than We’ve Been Led to Believe

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Never Vote!


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

March 25: Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

1949 March 25: Operation Priboi, Soviet Mass Deportations from the Baltic States

April 6: Tartan Day, North American celebration of Scottish heritage

April 8: International Romani day

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March in Inverness shows support for the EU citizens

‘Undesirable Elements’: How Stalin Deported Nearly 100,000 From The Baltics In Operation ‘Priboi’

Brexit Has Triggered Britain’s Most Ambitious Migration Exercise Ever

Britain’s Roma community fears post-Brexit future

Russian Region Bans Employment Of Foreigners In Dozens Of Sectors

49th Estonian Cultural Days coming to New York

1877 Yiddish best-seller now translated into English for first time

Elly Gotz: A survivor

Stars In His Eyes by Marti Gironell

Nauru refugees struggling with life in the US ‘Valley of Opportunity’

Timor Leste berry pickers flavour of the month in Tasmania

Chinese authorities accused of intimidating Uyghurs in Australia

Chinese officials pressured Canadian university to cancel event with Uighur activist

How China Used the Swedish Ambassador to Threaten Angela Gui

Majority of foreign-background Finnish citizens don’t vote

Modern-day slavery pervasive in Nepalese restaurants in Finland

‘I Am Doing This for Every Place Where Rape Is a Weapon of War.’ Meet the Woman Documenting Sexual Violence Against Myanmar’s Rohingya

Russian jailed for murdering Georgian man in northern Sweden

Dozens of Bangladesh migrants trafficked to Vanuatu stuck in limbo

Malta special forces seize tanker hijacked by migrants

Six decades on, Tibetan diaspora in Dharamsala worried about its future

60 years after exile, Tibetans face a fight for survival in a post-Dalai Lama world

The migrants plucked from the sea, only to face TB in Libyan detention centres

Russia uses terror to crush Crimean Solidarity & drive Crimean Tatars from their homeland

Celtic Classic Parade of Shamrocks marches through Bethlehem

U.S. border authorities hold migrant families in a pen under an El Paso bridge

El Paso Migrant Holding Pen ‘Looks Like a Concentration Camp’ Says Women’s March Spokesperson

Migrant Girl’s Autopsy Shows She Would Have Been Visibly Sick for Hours, Doctors Say

Trump Says He’ll Close Border If Mexico Doesn’t Stop Migration

Fake Birth Certificates And ‘Fake Families’ Amid Migrant Surge At Border

Dust and blood: Climate-induced conflict fuels migration, study finds

Mexico Is Bracing for Yet Another Central American Migrant Caravan

Italy’s Right Links Low Birthrate to Fight Against Abortion and Migration

US expected to sign regional accord with Central American officials to address ‘migration crisis’

Denmark’s island banishment for migrants faces pushback

Denmark to deprive jihadists’ children of citizenship

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Deported for Being Paid 7 Times Less than Minimum Wage


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

March 25: Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

1949 March 25: Operation Priboi, Soviet Mass Deportations from the Baltic States

April 6: Tartan Day, North American celebration of Scottish heritage

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An immigrant’s tale: Leaving Britain to escape Brexit hostility

ni-Vanuatu woman deported for working illegally was paid seven times less than the minimum wage

New Zealand Shooting Suspect Praised China For ‘Lacking Diversity’

‘We are modern slaves’: Mdou Moctar, the Hendrix of the Sahara

White supremacist threat:Canadian Sikhs seek removal of Khalistani reference from safety report

Hmong students are among the forgotten minorities of higher education

UK universities accused of failing working-class white males as number of black and ethnic minorities students soars

46% of whites worry becoming a majority-minority nation will ‘weaken American culture,’ survey says

Asbestos dumped near refugees on Nauru

DNA From 200-Year-Old Pipe Links Enslaved Woman to Sierra Leone

Sweden Democrat proposes building mosque to attract immigrants up north

Sharofiddin Gadoev escapes Tajikistan after YouTube video plea for help

Stageplay imagines a lost Tuvalu

The Rohingya are not going home to Myanmar. Can Bangladesh cope?

UN official welcomes Rohingya relocation plan

Roma Week: Full house at the European Parliament for the Roma Civil Monitor session

Tibetan-Americans and Tibet supporters will take their cause to Capitol Hill next week

Current Dalai Lama Says His Successor Could Come from India

Alternative für Deutschland politician seeking election to Brussels via Latvia

Welles Declaration: Personal tragedy led to 50 years of protecting Baltic statehood

Anyone Speak K’iche’ or Mam? Immigration Courts Overwhelmed by Indigenous Languages

Siberian City Grinds to a Halt After Locals Protest Rape Linked to Migrant

Police Detain Suspected Attackers Of Migrants In Russia’s Sakha-Yakutia Region

Family escapes Syrian war only to be gunned down in New Zealand mosque shooting

Paul Goble: Moscow engaging in slow-motion deportation of Crimean Tatars

Russia’s New Program to Rapidly Populate Crimea with Russians

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Poluteless Migrants


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

March 25: Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

1949 March 25: Operation Priboi, Soviet Mass Deportations from the Baltic States

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UN warns Bangladesh of ‘new crisis’ over Rohingya relocation plan

Rohingya women are still crying out for justice after their babies were ripped from their arms and killed

Belarus Orders Expulsion Of Christian Convert Facing Death Penalty In Iran

People of Hmong descent a growing force in Minnesota politics

Icelandic-Palestinian Author Nominated for Man Booker Prize

New Zealand in shock following mass shootings in Christchurch

Vandals deface Helsinki mosque

East Turkestan: Uyghur Diaspora Finally Receive “Proof of Life” Videos from Loved Ones

Chinese actress who was raised in the US is forbidden from leaving China for having bad ‘social credit’

Crimean Tatar leader explains why Moscow resettles Russians from mainland to occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatars rally in Toronto to protest ongoing Russian aggression

‘Houses were burned’: Papuans claim thousands displaced in conflict

Displaced Papuans who fled to Wamena in desperate situation

Ethnic minorities produce less pollution but are exposed to more

The secret Jewish history of Wales’ high streets is hidden in plain sight

2 last remaining Jews of Bitola, Macedonia attend Holocaust commemoration

Rights group: EU complicit in violence against migrants

‘Minnesota is my home’: Liberians face deportation deadline

Far-right Vox did not let black citizen in party event

Center for immigrant children outside Barcelona attacked twice over weekend

Chinese workers sue Saipan casino over forced labour scheme

Mothers send sons to Somalia to avoid knife crime

‘Black Mother’ a real portrait of life in Jamaica

An Irish lament: The fading of Hibernian political power

Everyone is Irish for San Francisco’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade

City of Toronto raises Kurdistan flag to honor Halabja genocide victims

60 years ago the Dalai Lama escapes China-ruled Tibet

Calgarians commemorate Tibetan Uprising Day with rally at city hall

Judge may order Trump admin to reunite more migrant families separated at Mexico border

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Balkars Mark 75th Anniversary Of Deportation. Dalai Lama 60 Years in Exile. What Happened to Migrant Caravans?


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

1944 March 8: Mass deportation of the Balkars by Stalin’s Soviet Union

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Balkars In Russia’s North Caucasus Mark 75th Anniversary Of Deportation

What happened to the migrant caravans?

Officials Announce Construction of New Facility in Texas to Handle Influx of Migrant Families

Migrant Families Arrive In Busloads As Border Crossings Hit 10-Year High

Nielsen says U.S. is working on migration crackdown agreement with Central America

Venezuela’s indigenous migrants struggle to preserve traditions

Pakistan’s Baloch community marks Cultural Day in the UAE

Arc of Prosperity and Phyl’s Blog independence supporters ‘fleeing’ Scotland due to Brexit

20th year of raising the Tibetan national flag in Northampton

Tibetan community to mark 60th anniversary of uprising with march, flag-raising

2019 Tibetan Youth Leadership Program in Washington, DC

Tibetans Restricted in Sichuan, Gansu Ahead of Uprising Anniversary

“The Future of Tibet, Heartland of Asia” exhibition and reception event in the Scottish Parliament

Tibetan PM in exile welcomed in Prague

Taiwan Will Welcome Dalai Lama’s Visit Says Ruling Party Secretary

Botswana’s Former President Set To Visit Dalai Lama in India

Dalai Lama On Time’s Cover Once Again at 60 Years in Exile

US Congress will continue to support Dalai Lama

Protesters Join Kurdish Lawmaker on Hunger Strike

Protest held outside Bristol City Hall to support Kurdish refugee on hunger strike

Belgian court: PKK not a terrorist organization

British officials join London Kurdish community to celebrate Newroz

Paris museum cancels concert by Western Sahara singer

Tradition or trafficking? Guinea-Bissau children suffer in Senegal’s Islamic schools

Yemeni refugees choose baboon-infested tent city over Saudi camp

Inside the El Salvador prisons where a ‘lost generation’ has been abandoned by mass migration to the US

It’s so dangerous to police MS-13 in El Salvador that officers are fleeing the country

Nauru defends treatment of refugee who self-immolated

Australia to send 57 refugees deemed a threat to island detention site for treatment

Panama slave descendants’ ‘congos’ recognized globally

In Albania, a unique Jewish history museum on the brink

Large share of diaspora paper vote goes to Conservative People’s Party of Estonia

Who were the “dipīši”? The beginning of a long Latvian post-WWII exile

Belgian carnival float depicting Jewish stereotypes condemned as anti-Semitic

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40 Miles From Auschwitz


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

1944 March 8: Mass deportation of the Balkars by Stalin’s Soviet Union

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Thousands of migrant children report they were sexually assaulted in U.S. custody

Net migration from EU to UK falls 70% since Brexit vote

South Sudan’s first migration policy takes another step forward

Complaints From Ethnic Minority Personnel ‘Disproportionate’

‘Worrying’ proportion of minority ethnic pharmacists suspended or struck off GPhC register

Heat-related illness affects ethnic groups disproportionately

Number of black and minority ethnic NHS staff being abused by patients rises to six-year high

Historical document reveals how British colonial government paid black soldiers less than white counterparts during Second World War

Celebrating Irish-American Heritage Month

A Mexican Hockey Player Looks for a Place to Lace Up His Skates

Gerber names 15-month-old Hmong American 2019 ‘spokesbaby’

Final refugee families to leave Nauru charged $16k for flights to US

Ahmed Ag Kaedy Was Exiled from Mali for Playing Music. So He Recorded His Album in Portland Instead.

Uyghur Community Starts #MeTooUyghur Movement To Find Missing Relatives in China

Colleges should punish int’l students who engage in threats, racial hatred and intelligence gathering for Beijing

Rally against Russia’s occupation of Crimea held outside UN headquarters

Becoming a Local Resident in Portugal – Some Practicalities

Trans asylum-seeker killed after U.S. deportation back to El Salvador

Vandals hurl smoke bomb at window of Oulu mosque

Live From America’s Capital, a TV Station Run by China’s Communist Party

Day of fasting in solidarity with Newport hunger-striker Imam Sis

‘Boycott Rugby World Cup’, former Samoa lock Daniel Leo urges Pacific nations

Bangladesh closes door to Rohingya refugees

Youth, indigenous peoples, migrants and refugees boost hope for human rights: Guterres

Tajikistan: Activist Forcibly Returned from Russia

Running From Bahrain’s Dark Side

Germany’s Brandenburg state to take in 60 Yezidi survivors of ISIS: MP

Toronto police probe online abuse of Tibetan-Canadian student leader accused of offending China

Month of Women came early … Dalai Lama urges women to take up leadership roles

Prague mayor to meet Tibetan PM in exile

Nepal Collecting Data on Tibetans to Curb Anti China Activism

40 Miles From Auschwitz, Poland’s Jewish Community Is Beginning to Thrive

Lombardy region in Italy discriminates against migrants on baby bonus, court

Karachi Bakery’s Sindhi owners forced to declare ‘We are Indians’

‘Half-Naked And Barefoot’: Chechens, Ingush Recall 1944 Deportations

Stalin’s Great Crime in the Caucasus

How can Ukraine’s Pension Fund collaborate with Russia against Crimeans forced to flee their homes?

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Rohingya Refugees at Risk From Looming Cyclones


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

February 21: International Mother Language Day

1944 February 23: Aardakh a.k.a. Operation Lentil: Soviet expulsion of Vainakh (Chechen and Ingush) to Central Asia

1944 March 8: Mass deportation of the Balkars by Stalin’s Soviet Union

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Almost 100 Jewish graves desecrated hours before French march against ‘unprecedented’ anti-Semitism surge

Mauritania: a 360° view from the Mbera refugee camp

United Nations says Mauritania urgently needs funds to deal with ongoing refugee crisis

Underpaid and abused, Guinea-Bissau’s domestic workers seek protection

‘Man returns to his native Xinjiang and disappears’ — a story too common for the headlines

Stranded Saudi sisters fear for their safety in Hong Kong, as clock ticks on hopes for asylum

Minorities quit Bank of England as it fails on diversity

Tajik Opposition Figure Arrested After Return From Self-Imposed Exile

In Poland, the homeless and Chechen refugees form unlikely bond

Plucky Jim Ratcliffe, the grammar school billionaire who went to Monaco

Hundreds of Thousands of Rohingya Refugees at Risk From Looming Cyclones

Rohingya: killings should remind all nations of their responsibility to protect victims of mass atrocity crimes

58,000 new expats entered the workforce in Kuwait

A Tibetan-Canadian student was attacked online after winning student council elections. She thinks Beijing is to blame.

Fifty Syrian Refugees to Settle in Northwest Iceland

Sweden fails to cut number of ‘vulnerable EU migrants’

Third migrant dies in US Border Patrol custody in as many months

New migrant caravan forms as Mexican cities that border US keep swelling with asylum seekers

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More Likely to Be Sentenced


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

February 21: International Mother Language Day

1944 February 23: Aardakh a.k.a. Operation Lentil: Soviet expulsion of Vainakh (Chechen and Ingush) to Central Asia

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No Porzingis, no Latvian Night for Knicks … what about Kurucs and Nets?

What’s it like growing up a Hmong immigrant in America?

Hmong: The Struggle of the Third Generation of Refugees over their Cultural Identity

Immigrants From Honduras and Nepal Are Suing the Trump Administration Over the End of Their Temporary Protected Status

Ethnic minority children in Birmingham more likely to be sentenced that white kids

Rohingya activists bemoan failure of Muslim countries to address Myanmar crisis

From Siberia To Freedom: The Odyssey Of The Czechoslovak Legion

Icelandic feast helps celebrate a piece of Spanish Fork history

Kathleen Hill: Basque celebrates its 25th anniversary and more

Refugee footballer Hakeem Al-Araibi arrives in Australia after Bahrain extradition case dropped

Three Syrians arrested in Germany and France for suspected crimes against humanity

Parents of 2-year-old Kurdish girl shot by police granted legal stay in Belgium

Kurdish hunger strike in Strasbourg on day 63

Denied Iraqi citizenship, graduates from Rojava miss out on jobs

Tibetan woman elected student president in Canada, Chinese students enraged

Tibetan-Canadian student politician, Uyghur rights activists come under attack by Chinese students in Canada

Protests at Canadian Universities Raise Concerns About Chinese Government Involvement

Miami Belarusians Held Rally To Commemorate Missing Politicians And To Support Charter-97

Russia orders arrest of Crimean Tatar Mejlis member for ‘violating its territory’ by seeking to #LiberateCrimea

ISIS marauders now endanger victims who fled to Canada

Two transgender women joined migrant caravan. Only one survived journey to San Francisco.

First stop for migrant kids: For-profit detention center

Inside The Largest And Most Controversial Shelter For Migrant Children In The U.S.

Behind The Border ‘Crisis’: More Migrant Families Risk Dangerous Remote Crossings

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