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NYT Collects Powerful Stories of 100+ Dreamers and Calls for the Protection of DACA
By: Yara Simón, Remezcla ~ July 19, 2017 None of my friends from my hometown know. My parents raised me to be gritty, never to complain or take handouts. I didn’t want ... -
As Government Retrenches, Philanthropy Booms
By DAVID CALLAHAN, New York Times ~ JUNE 20, 2017 Last year, as Kalamazoo, Mich., struggled with a budget deficit and other economic woes, two local philanthropists stepped forward, pledging $70 ... -
'Dreamers’ to Stay in U.S. for Now, but Long-Term Fate Is Unclear
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR, New York Times ~ JUNE 16, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump will not immediately eliminate protections for the so-called Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who came to the United ... -
Eduardo García’s Path: Migrant Worker, Convict, Deportee, Star Chef
By GUY TREBAY, New York Times ~ FEB. 25, 2017 MEXICO CITY — As bad hombre tales go, Eduardo García’s is classic. A border-crossing Mexican immigrant, he moved around the United ... -
Jeff Sessions, Unleashed at the Border
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD, The New York Times ~ APRIL 13, 2017 Attorney General Jeff Sessions went to the border in Arizona on Tuesday and declared it a hellscape, a “ground ... -
Will Mexico Get Half of Its Territory Back?
By ENRIQUE KRAUZE, New York Times ~ APRIL 6, 2017 MEXICO CITY — The United States invasion of Mexico in 1846 inflicted a painful wound that, in the 170 years that ... -
The American Dream Meets a Central American Nightmare
By ANTHONY W. FONTES, New York Times ~ APRIL 5, 2017 It is an unprecedented time in a nation’s political history. A neophyte politician — a man famous for lowbrow TV ... -
When Martin Luther King Came Out Against Vietnam
By: DAVID J. GARROW, New York Times ~ April 4, 2017 Fifty years ago today — and one year to the day before his assassination — the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther ... -
U.S. Appetite for Mexico’s Drugs Fuels Illegal Immigration
By RON NIXON and FERNANDA SANTOS, New York Times ~ APRIL 4, 2017 LUKEVILLE, Ariz. — Each year, Mexican drug cartels rake in billions of dollars in profits from the sale of ... -
Here’s the Reality About Illegal Immigrants in the United States
By VIVIAN YEE, KENAN DAVIS and JUGAL K. PATEL, New York Times ~ MARCH 6, 2017 There are 11 million of them, the best estimates say, laboring in American fields, ...