Call ‘migrants’ by their true name — Immigrants

“What’s in a name?” Shakespeare’s Juliet asks, making the point that what matters is a person’s essence, not what we call them. That’s true in love. In politics, not so...

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Amid Trump deportation threats, communities prepare

Nearly 100 people from across the United States joined an online meeting one recent Saturday, all wanting to know how they could help their immigrant neighbors amid President Donald Trump’s...

Trump weighs revoking legal status for 240,000 Ukrainians

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would soon decide whether to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, following a...

Issues over Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown

Alexa Alvarado, Tribune News ServicePresident Donald Trump said he wanted to deport criminals, but his policies seem directed at other targets: the Sunday schoolteacher at my church, the mom I...

Bodies of 4 Pakistanis who died on a migrant boat journey off West Africa return home for burial

The bodies of four Pakistanis who were among dozens who drowned in the capsizing of a migrant boat off West Africa last month have been repatriated.The four were among 13...

'Dreams shattered' as Trump deports Indians ahead of Modi trip

It took Daler Singh six months and $45,000 to reach the United States last month without paperwork. Within three weeks of his arrival, he was sent back to his native...

More than 100 illegal Indians deported by US arrive home

A US military plane carrying 104 deported Indian migrants arrived in a northern Indian city on Wednesday, the first such flight to the country as part of a crackdown ordered...

Undocumented immigrants are well documented

Kathryn Anne Edwards, Tribune News ServiceThe phrase “undocumented immigrant” is deeply misleading, if not outright inaccurate. It implies that there is a mass of people in the US that essentially...

'Status' of Liberty