At least 53 people believed to be migrants died after being found in an overheated, abandoned tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas, on Monday, June 27. They were thought to be migrants crossing the border into the US; Mexican Foreign Minister…
Theresa Hernandez still remembers the journey like it just happened. In 1980, a scared 16-year-old girl decided to follow her then 17-year-old-boyfriend on a perilous journey away from El Salvador’s brutal civil war. “They tried to kill him over there,”…
The number of migrant children crossing the southern border without their parents reached a record high last year — and the backlash is still growing. Republicans accuse the Biden administration of organizing secret flights, carrying migrants from the border to…
The history of immigration and its social impact in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is the topic of Art & Education at the Hoyt’s newest exhibition. “Immigration and Caricature: Ethnic Images from the Appel Collection” will be on…
In 2012, the Obama administration introduced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, protecting all eligible immigrants who came to the U.S. as children from deportation. “DACA gave me hope,” program recipient Eddie Ramirez told ABC News. “And the…
Several thousand migrants have set out from southern Mexico in a caravan bound for the United States, which is hoping to address regional migration during talks at the Summit of the Americas this week in Los Angeles. Migration activists said…
Two days after a gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, killing 19 third- and fourth-graders and two of their teachers, I had the first nosebleed of my 42-year-old life. Like everyone else caught…
The announcement early in May 2022 that Catholic News Service would cease operations in the United States at the end of the year took many by surprise. I was flabbergasted and saddened. I still am. For many years, I have…
On a recent Saturday, Immaculee Ndayisaba was busy transplanting eggplants into rows on cultivated land in Orchard Park. Ndayisaba, from Burundi, was also planting tomatoes, hot peppers and corn – native plantings she farmed in Africa before fleeing to the…
A few days before the Summit of the Americas was set to open in Los Angeles, Martha Peinado grabbed some poster sheets and fistfuls of marking pens to send an enthusiastically unwelcoming message to the president of El Salvador, Nayib…
