My friend Morgan Smith wrote this note about the Rio Grande in July 2024. Learn more about Morgan here , here and here .
J.A.M. v. USA "The Court holds that Oscar is entitled to a much lower, but still notable award of $175,000 because he was somewhat older at the time of the incident, was detained for about half...
Path2Papers, July 17, 2024 " What are the policy changes the Biden administration is implementing regarding temporary work visas? On June 18, 2024, the Biden administration announced a policy...
DOJ, July 18, 2024 "The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Southwest Key Programs Inc. (Southwest Key), a Texas-based nonprofit that provides housing to unaccompanied children who are...
Jeanne Kuang, CalMatters, July 18, 2024 "Even with all the industries where Californians went on strike during last year’s “hot labor summer,” some of the most active sites of...
"STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Let's meet some people left behind by changing rules of adoption. This story involves some of the thousands of people adopted from abroad into the United States.
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: When adoptive parents bring home kids from many countries, the children become U.S. citizens as soon as they arrive, but that doesn't apply to every child, and years ago, when the law was different, it didn't apply to any of them.
INSKEEP: That has meant that some adoptees who have spent almost their whole lives in the United States have not become citizens and have even been deported. Here's Alexandra Starr of NPR's Code Switch team. ..." - NPR, May 19, 2015.