Federal Judge Blocks Diversion Of Military Construction Money For Border Wall A case brought by El Paso County, Texas, is similar to another won by the Sierra Club in California. The U.S. Supreme Court said wall construction can continue while the Trump administration appeals.
All Things Considered 'I Want To Be Sure My Son Is Safe': Asylum-Seekers Send Children Across Border Alone Some migrant parents who were told to wait in Mexico under President Trump's asylum policies are sending their children, unaccompanied, across the bridge to surrender to U.S. agents.
RadioActive Hungry for knowledge of my culture, I head to my lola’s kitchen We don't go to church for mass in my family. We go to my grandma's kitchen. Food is my tie to my Filipino culture. But I don't know if my connection to food is enough for me to call myself Filipino. I set out to use cooking as a way to dig deeper into my family's story and my own cultural identity.
KUOW Newsroom WA state Sen. Fortunato pushes back on sanctuary policies A Republican Washington state senator is urging Governor Jay Inslee and King County’s Dow Constantine to reconsider policies that protect undocumented immigrants.
KUOW Newsroom Being an immigrant could be pricier next month if federal rule goes through An asylum fee, higher costs for citizenship and DACA applications.
RadioActive The secret diaries my grandma snuck out of a Communist prison in Vietnam My grandfather was a South Vietnamese soldier during the Vietnam War. After the war ended, the Communist government imprisoned him in an re-education camp. As a way to connect with his family, he secretly wrote letters, poems and stories.
KUOW Newsroom Fate of DACA program could be decided Tuesday by Supreme Court In Washington state, there’s over 16,000 DACA recipients — or so called ‘Dreamers’ -- with temporary immigration status to live and work in the country. And they’re watching the U.S. Supreme Court case Tuesday very closely. The decision could decide the fate of the DACA program.
Unskilled Jobs Draw Migrants, Changing Face Of Small Towns Across America A meatpacking town in the Texas Panhandle is a magnet for immigrants who will do unpopular jobs. The once majority-white county has adjusted to its more diverse population.
Photographer Chronicles 2 Women On 8,000-Mile Journey Migrating From Cuba To U.S. In 2015, Cubans began leaving in droves when the fate of a decades-old U.S. immigration policy hung in the balance. Photographer Lisette Poole went with two of them to document their journey north.
KUOW Newsroom PHOTOS: An altar for Seattle's immigrant workers Dia de los Muertos brings single, mostly male workers together at Casa Latina. Together they build an altar to remember and celebrate their friends and co-workers who died alone in the U.S.
