Miriam Jordan
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National Immigration Correspondent, The New York Times. [email protected] Send tips & thoughts!
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A five-year-old boy separated from his dad at the border: First nights after, he cried himself to sleep. Then it was “just moaning and moaning,” said his foster mom. Read my labor of love about the fallout of the Trump policy.
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NEW: Undocumented workers get the job done at President Trump's golf club. My story about who makes his bed, waters the greens and more. Right here:
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NEW! A DACA student mobilizes against his mom’s deportation. “I grew up in this country. My mother is the single biggest reason I am at a school like Yale,” he said of the campaign he started to win his mother’s freedom. via @NYTimes.
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EXCLUSIVE: Undocumented workers at yet another Trump golf club lose their jobs as his company scrambles to contain the fallout of NYT revelations.
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A 13-year-old girl hung herself because her dad couldn’t make it across the border. It was his 3rd try; she had lost all hope. w @cegoldbaum via @NYTimes.
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BREAKING: ICE must release migrant kids in family detention centers. Citing coronavirus pandemic, federal judge says, "facilities are on fire and there is no more time for half measures.”
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NEW! Trump is likely to suspend work visas, such as H-1Bs, for foreign professionals and work authorization for foreign graduates of U.S. universities. Already, many laid off immigrants who built lives here are being forced to leave. My latest:
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NEW! Employers across the country panic over the potential loss of immigrant workers after the Trump administration sends out 577,000 Social Security no-match letters
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NEW: 2 more immigrant women say they worked for Trump when they were undocumented. “We said the papers are not good. She said it didn’t matter, but don’t talk about it,” recalled Ms. Dominguez.
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Scott Warren gave water, food and shelter to migrants in the Arizona desert. A jury can’t decide if he intended to commit a crime. via @nytimes.
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NEW: A court has ruled that the government must provide mental health services to mIgrant families traumatized by separation at the border. Read here:
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A federal judge has ordered the government to provide mental-health services for migrants traumatized by family separation. via @NYTimes.
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HIAS, the Jewish resettlement agency attacked on social media by the synagogue shooter has helped millions of displaced people. “They did everything they can to help us and make it easy to adjust to a new life here,” said the Iraqi refugee in Pittsburgh.
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NEW!!!! Once a chauffeur to Trump's children and campaign staffers, the Romanian immigrant is now stuck in a detention center and facing deportation, a victim of his former employer's immigration crackdown. He hasn't seen his family in 8 months. Read here:
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NEW! Venezuelan migrants were tricked into flying to Martha’s Vineyard by a former combat medic & counterintelligence agent, discharged last month after two decades in the US Army. w @edjsandoval @PatriciaMazzei @jdavidgoodman
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NEW! Trump administration reverses decision to force people with medical crises to leave the country or face deportation, after our reporting spotlighted Isabel Bueno, who would die if returned to Guatemala. Read about it here:
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NEW: President Trump's golf course benefits from the labor of undocumented immigrants. I spent time with two of them and wrote this story:
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The agony of separation: A five year old Honduran boy separated from his dad at border. This is the picture he holds onto. Please read my story.
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1/NEW: A mother-daughter reunion 7 years after mom immigrated to the U.S. to support her family back in Guatemala. Read about Melissa, 11, among the unaccompanied minors crossing the border to be with their parents again. Evocative pics by Mark Abramson.
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These young adults in Arizona just voted against the establishment that threatened their immigrant parents and lifted Biden in a GOP stronghold. W @viaSimonRomero @miwine
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Parents w children are being kidnapped for ransom thanks to a Trump policy forcing migrants to wait in Mexico for U.S. court hearings. Among others, I met Jose,' tortured in front of his son, 3, until his wife in NJ sent $2,000 to free them. Story & audio:
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She was deported without her son and has no idea when they will reunite. Read about this separation in my article here:
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Trump finally admits his clubs hired undocumented workers tho he says he didn’t know. via @NYTimes.
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NEW! Immigrants in huge numbers seek, and get, U.S. citizenship.
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A federal judge issued a nationwide injunction to stop border wall construction with $3.6 billion of Pentagon money, ruling that Trump's justification -- an emergency proclamation at the border - was illegal. Read about it here:
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No immigrant detention centers in our backyard, voted a town that is home to many undocumented farmworkers.
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THE AGONY OF SEPARATION: When he landed in Michigan, all the little Honduran boy carried was a trash bag stuffed with dirty clothes from his dayslong trek across Mexico, and two small pieces of paper, pictures of his family.
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ICE resumes national operations touting criminal arrests but it is sweeping up undocumented immigrants without criminal records and with American kids.
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A federal judge has ruled that President Trump exceeded his authority by restricting foreign-worker visas, allowing major U.S. business to resume bringing in hires from abroad. Tech workers, seasonal workers, au pairs benefit.
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The Biden administration is denying entry to more than 90 percent of Afghans applying for emergency permission to reach the U.S.
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NEW! A Cuban asylum seeker stuck on the Mexican side of the border under a U.S. "Remain in Mexico" policy is the only full-time doctor at a migrant encampment. "It's what I do best," he told me about the work. Story w @MitchellFerman Photo @IlanaPI
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School districts are trying to absorb large numbers of migrant children who have crossed the border. Here is Dayvin singing his ABCs in my piece with great pics by @eve_edelheit
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NEW: Immigrants receiving life-saving medical care could be deported under Trump policy shift. Meet Maria Isabel Bueso, 24, whose participation in a medical trial has extended the life of many Americans with her rare disease. She was just told to leave.
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Black farmworkers in Mississippi lost their jobs to white South Africans brought to work in the cotton fields. In interviews and in a lawsuit, the workers said they had trained their replacements, who were paid more. Pics by the great @sbmaney_.
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A few months ago, an undocumented immigrant named Victorina Morales decided that she wanted to share her story about working for Donald Trump.
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On July 3, she took a phone-charging cable, fashioned it into a noose and tried to end her life. Her aunts found a lawyer to help release Manuel. He arrived in N.Y., in time to say goodbye. Brain dead, Heydi never knew he was by her side. Read the story.
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Venezuelans coaxed onto buses to NY, DC are filling a labor shortage and rebuilding their lives. “I feel fortunate the governor put me on a bus. It opened up doors.”
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NEW: FLORES UNDER THREAT: What will happen to the migrant children? Trump Administration is on the verge of issuing its own regulations to replace the landmark Flores Agreement, which has protected migrant kids for 22 years. Read all about the case here
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Workers who produce America's food in chicken and meat plants, mainly blacks & Latinos, are starting to get the coronavirus, and even die. "My mom said the guy at the plant said they had to work to feed America." She died Thursday alone. W @itscaitlinhd
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Even Trump couldn’t manage without them. Who are the undocumented immigrants in the US workforce? What would happen if they all disappeared? Read my story here:
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I met Victorina and another immigrant, who had worked at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminister when she was undocumented, named Sandra Diaz. Both women were hurt by the president's disparaging comments about unauthorized immigrants. Both said they understood the risks.
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So far, four housekeepers have said that supervisors or managers knew they were working illegally at the golf club. Other undocumented immigrants work in landscaping and maintenance at the exclusive resort.
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Trump new policy undermines foreign students. “I realized that I might be deported back to my home country,” a UCLA student. “It was so absurd, so insane. with @KannoYoungs @globaldan and NYT team
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Another day, another ruling against Trump's immigration policies: This time, appeals court found that an asylum policy change, "perhaps the most significant. in a generation," was made without justification. Judge who said that was appointed by Trump.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump Florida resorts hired undocumented immigrants through staffing agency to disguise their illegal status w @anniecorreal & @PatriciaMazzei.
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Trump says in response to a question that he is going to take care of DACA, refers to “negotiations.” Then, when confronted w the fact his administration is chipping away at the program, he said, “well, because of the pandemic.”.
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Heydi's dad had left her in Honduras to be raised by grandparents and come to work in the U.S. But when his father was gunned down by gangs, Manuel returned to Honduras. He then sent his daughter to N.Y. for safety. She won asylum. But when he tried at the border, he was denied.
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In a reversal, Biden administration decides gang and domestic violence are grounds for asylum, a huge win for Central American migrants. Claims can now be decided "fairly, applying the law to their facts," said the lawyer, Karen Musalo. With @ktbenner
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"He didn't recognize me," the mother said. After months apart, some migrant children don't remember their parents.They call for the social worker who cared for them in shelter. My latest - w @itscaitlinhd @ktbenner @nixonron @MannyNYT @KirkSemple
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NEW: Biden is using executive power to allow hundreds of thousands into the U.S. on humanitarian parole programs. It could become the largest expansion of legal immigration in decades, and many employers are ecstatic.
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Indian working women in the US unite against Trump plan to revoke their work permits. “We were happily working and settled.” Read my piece here.
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Latino workers reach landmark settlement over mistreatment and racial profiling by agents who rounded them up at a slaughterhouse.
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But they decided that now was the time to tell their stories about the contributions that immigrants make to the Trump business.
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The Trump administration revived a practice of informing employers when the Social Security Administration detects a mismatch between the name and Social Security number of a worker.
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Children taken from parents at border reach NYC. “How is it possible that none of us knew that there were 239 kids right here in our own city?” asked Mayor de Blasio. Real all about it here @nytlizrobbins
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The father was deported to Honduras in 2016. He tried to cross into the U.S. again in 2017, only to be detained and deported again. Heyd, living with aunts, learned English and adjusted to life in America. But she begged her dad to join her.
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Ms. Morales, a Guatemalan with little schooling, said she will never forget when he helped her wipe windows she couldn't reach because she is short. He gave her $50. Ms. Diaz got $100 after Mr. Trump checked the dust in a room and expressed satisfaction with her work.
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Venezuelans sent on buses from Texas to DC, NY are already employed and achieving some measure of stability. “There is so much opportunity here.”
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Afghan civilians who risked their lives to assist U.S. troops have been waiting years for visas to the United States. Now they are stranded -- and could face grave retribution from the Taliban.
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BREAKING! She revealed that Trump employed undocumented immigrants. She is now in removal proceedings.
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At the Staples Center, where Kobe played during his career with the LA Lakers, thousands surrounded a shrine. #RIPKOBE
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But Manuel was arrested by Border Patrol and sent to detention in Texas. Days, weeks and then more than a month passed. Heydi became increasingly hopeless. She saw on the news that migrant families were being released, not single adults like dad. How would they ever be together?.
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Heydi, whose mother had left her when she was 2 months old, felt orphaned without her dad, she said. Manuel promised the 6th grader he would be in the U.S. in time for her 15th bday, to celebrate her quinceanera. But her deepening sadness led him to try crossing again in June.
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Did George Santos, who is gay, marry a woman to get her a green card? Some are asking that question. Our latest on the NY congressman. w @grAshford & @migold
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A little girl, just 9, died attempting to cross the Rio Grande, just a couple days after another migrant drowned trying to swim from Tijuana to San Diego.
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NEW! NYT broke the story of Trump’s housekeeper who revealed POTUS employed undocumented immigrants. She now faces deportation. Here’s the original piece.
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So many children, thousands of them, were harmed by a policy that will be a stain on this country forever. These moms I met had trouble reconnecting with their kids.
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All her little friends have reunited w parents. ‘Why did you leave me?’ Her father was deported; there is no knowing when she will return home. My latest on the agony of family separation via @NYTimes
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NEW: GOP states seek to stop Title 42 from being rescinded next month after judge ruled that Trump-era pandemic border policy is illegal and must end. The ban has been used as a key immigration enforcement tool, and blocked migrants from seeking asylum.
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I visited both women in their homes in New Jersey, where they have lived for several years, and conducted interviews with them. They liked their work at the beautiful golf club, they said. They described Mr. Trump as a tough taskmaster who was kind and generous w tips.
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At least 4 migrant children in US have tested positive for Covid-19; even more shelter staff are infected
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Fearing a backlash, immigrants from the former Soviet Union are starting to reject the label, "Russians," in an effort to distance themselves from Putin's attack on Ukraine. ‘People are going to start hating Russians,' an anxious immigrant told me.
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NEW! ICE is dropping off migrant families at MOTELS because shelters and detention centers are overwhelmed. The tide of arrivals has swelled and has no signs of subsiding. Read here:
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“A job is a paycheck, an identity, a civic stabilizer, a future builder. During a pandemic, a job loss erases all that, when it is needed the most.” Read about the lives of those upended by unemployment. A project of the NYT and papers across the country.
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“I had no identity in this country. I got it, and now they want to take it away from me,” said one Indian woman who has been working thanks to the permit.
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On my reporting about immigrants: Objectivity and Compassion Don’t Have to Be Mutually Exclusive . My piece here via @NYTimes
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Hundreds of refugees have been pulled off U.S.-bound flights because Biden has not restored the program that Trump cut. "When they left the camp, they gave away all their small belongings and the house they had built." Forced back, "they have nothing."
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NEW! Trump golf club excluded undocumented worker from secret service vetting list.
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NEW: Climate change has given rise to a migratory workforce to clean up & rebuild after hurricanes. via @NYTimes.
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Elsa Ortiz was sobbing heavily as she climbe the steps to the plane that was taking her and other deportees to Guatemala. Without her son. “Please don’t put me on the plane,” she pleaded. “I can’t go without my son.”.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump golf club terminated some undocumented workers.
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Even toddlers are appearing in immigration court as more migrant children are taken into custody after crossing the border. Read about Fernanda, 2, in immigration court here. With @VivianHYee
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The story of immigration: A Haitian family called from the border. A church took them in. Then another and another. “We came to work, not to create problems.”
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They call themselves “Documented Dreamers.” Children of Indian immigrants could be forced to self deport if they turn 21 and their family has not received green cards.
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Trump’s order to freeze green cards for 60 days confused immigrants & biz community; its impact may be limited w @itscaitlinhd
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As the Times reports on the evacuation of vulnerable Afghans, I am often being asked by readers how they can help. Here’s a NYT list. @NYTimes
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The green card backlog is the root of the problem. About 300,000 Indians approved for permanent residency in the US are waiting to get theirs.
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NEW! DACA recipients are being rejected for jobs despite having work authorization. Procter & Gamble, the consumer giant, is one of the firms being sued.
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The hardest-hit industries are agriculture, construction and hospitality, which employ many workers without legal status in the United States. One grower in California said, "This could shut us down.".
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Over the loud protest of businesses & universities, Trump suspends visas for hundreds of thousands of potential foreign workers, including skilled workers, executives, even au pairs and camp counselors. w @shearm
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Trump's messages are discouraging Latino immigrants from participating in the 2020 Census, and time is running out to convince them to respond. A California town reveals the challenges:
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These Indian women work to pay the mortgage, daycare and for personal satisfaction. Trump plans to scrap their work permits.
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NEW: Biden's task force on family separation will face demands to hold accountable those behind the policy that tore families apart. “We never thought there would be thousands separated, much less that we'd still be looking for hundreds three years later.”
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Immigration lawyers report being swamped with calls from concerned businesses, which could be penalized down the road for employing undocumented workers. Many employers say what they need is immigration reform, not immigration enforcement.
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NEW: A significant number of U.S. citizen children were also removed from their parents by Trump’s family separation policy at the southern border, and many were placed in foster care.
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It had been at least a decade since employers had received Social Security Administration letters notifying them of discrepancies and instructing them to rectify them. That means informing their workers, who are likely to quit immediately if they are undocumented.
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Thousand of Russians have been showing up at the southern border and requesting asylum after buying “holiday” packages to Mexico. Ukrainians are coming in larger numbers too.
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A ray of hope this week for young undocumented immigrants jolted by the ups and downs of DACA. Read all about their rollercoaster ride here:
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Once they become adults, they cannot qualify as dependents to get a green card. “We don’t want to split our family,” said an Indian teacher in a poor district of South Carolina. He has two kids who could reach 21 before the green cards come.
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