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Opinion

Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Is Triggering Immigrants Who Were Separated From a Parent During Childhood

Author: “I met my mother only nine times in my adult life. I’m still triggered by abandonment and rejection and must constantly remind myself that I’m worthy.”

By

Tatsha Robertson

Published

February 25, 2025
Politics

Democrats Introduce Sweeping Immigration Legislation, Offering 3 to 8 Year Path to Citizenship for Undocumented Immigrants

Congressional Democrats are moving forward with the campaign promise of overhauling America’s problematic and oft-maligned immigration system. On Thursday, Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.) and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-Pa.) introduced the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, a measure that would provide the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship. At least 619,000 undocumented Black…

By

Ishena Robinson

Published

February 18, 2021
News

9-Year-Old From Haiti Detained by Immigration in Trump’s Final Days in Office Is Released Home to Family

Vladimir Fardin, a 9-year-old boy who was separated from his family and held in a shelter for unaccompanied immigrant children in the final days of the Trump administration has been released and is now back home in Haiti. Vladimir had flown into the U.S. last Sunday with his older brother, Christian Laporte, a 19-year-old who…

By

Ishena Robinson

Published

January 28, 2021