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Idaho GOP legislator brings bill to grant driving privileges to undocumented immigrants Nicole Foy, The Idaho Statesman © Katherine Jones/Idaho Statesman/TNS Estefania Mondragon, executive director of Poder of Idaho, is one of the young Idaho activists organizing a campaign that would allow undocumented Idahoans the ability to obtain a drivers license. BOISE, Idaho —An Idaho Republicans bill that would issue driving privileges to undocumented immigrants — and any Idahoan ...

In this handbook, scholars from around the world explore how social class, race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality shape the process of migration.

President Nana, Lumumba, Ocansey to lead African migration summit Feb 25-26 On By Festus Ahon, ASABA PRESIDENT of the Journalists International Forum For Migration, JIFORM, Mr Ajibola Abayomi, Tuesday said the African migration summit would hold in Ghana February 25-26  with President Nana Akufo-Addoof Ghana who doubles as the Chairman for the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS; multiple international award winner and member African Union Labour Migration Advisory Committee, D...

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Editorial: Rebuilding the refugee resettlement system after Trump poses a challenge for Biden The Times Editorial Board © Provided by The LA Times President Biden, shown signing executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, laid out his foreign policy views Thursday at the State Department. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) Until immigration hard-liners began running amok in the White House four years ago. the United States stood as the global leader in accepting refugees f...

Until immigration hard-liners began running amok in the White House four years ago, the United States stood as the global leader in accepting refugees for permanent resettlement — more than 3.4 million people since the end of the Vietnam War. Among President Biden’s many challenges, as he acknowledged in a speech at the State Department on Thursday, will be to not only regain that status but also to resurrect the collapsed system of nonprofit agencies that do the actual work of resettling t...

WASHINGTON D.C: U.S. bishops on Monday praised the Biden administration for its “actions to promote racial equity” in housing and criminal justice reform. “The federal government has a critical role to play in overcoming and redressing our nation’s history of discrimination, and we hope the administration follows through on the important work of promoting fair housing and human dignity,” Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City and Bishop Shelton Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux said in a joi...

Sarah Gualtieri received the 2020 Alixa Naff Book Prize in Migration Studies for her book, “Arab Routes.”  (Photo courtesy of Sarah Gualtieri) Catching up with her friend in a coffee shop in As-Suwayda, Syria during an early 1990s summer, then-graduate student Sarah Gualtieri overheard a language she was surprised to hear in the region: Spanish. Thinking that the Spanish speakers were tourists and voicing her thoughts to her friend, Gualtieri was corrected that the “tourists” were in f...

How Trump is building a border wall that no one can see How Trump is building a border wall that no one can seeby wpjljron Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017.How Trump is building a border wall that no one can seePresident Trump’s vision of a “big, beautiful” wall along the Mexican border may never be realized, and almost certainly not as a 2,000-mile physical structure spanning sea to sea. But in a systematic and less visible way, his administration is following a blueprint to reduce the num...

By Sandra G. Leon  In his acceptance speech Thursday night, Republican nominee Donald J. Trump painted a dark picture of America, and doubled down on his anti-immigration rhetoric that has dominated his campaign. Speaking for more than 76 minutes – beating Bill Clinton’s record for the longest acceptance speech in modern history – Trump shouted his way through a speech that portrayed the country as crime ridden, in economic despair, and threatened by illegal immigrantion that he vowed to...