Mexican drug wars force police to claim asylum in US

"That made him part of an unprecedented new trend: Mexican police officers claiming safe haven across the border in America, because they claim their own colleagues cannot protect them - or might even be trying to kill them."Britain's Telegraph reports on the newest trend...

NPR: Is Immigration Overhaul Vital To U.S. Recovery?

"During the campaign, Barack Obama promised to push for an immigration overhaul during his first year in office. But White House officials have said repeatedly that the economic crisis is a bigger priority. Some advocates have a new argument — they say addressing illegal...

AP: Immigration legal system does not protect rights

"The American judicial system deems everyone innocent until proven guilty and guarantees a fair hearing with a lawyer — but not when it comes to immigration. Then there are far fewer rights. And as the system comes under pressure from a flood of new cases, the strain is...

Lost in translation: children interpret for immigrant parents

BY KIRA LERNER [this story was written originally for a course, Enterprise Reporting in Diverse Communities, at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism] Gustavo Montes, a 13-year-old Edgewater resident, plays a crucial role in his parents’ lives. Not only is...

A mission shared, a flock divided

"Detentions at McHenry County Correctional Facility"Over half of the inmates at the McHenry County Correctional Facility, in Woodstock, are immigrant detainees. Jail officials, activists and clergy are working together to meet their spiritual needs as they are locked away...

An Iraqi's odyssey into the French asylum system

BY ELISA MIGNOT [This story appeared originally on Immigration Here & There, a project of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, done in conjunction with the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)] "We were living in a truck when the...

Displaced: Colombia's internal inferno

BY LAUREN DAKE[This story appeared originally on Immigration Here & There, a project of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism] When the guerrillas barged into Sofia Uwea's house and took her husband into the mountains, she screamed. When the commander told...

Nuevo New Orleans: Latino Immigrants Remake the Crescent City

BY PETER HOLDERNESS[the story was originally published in March 2008 for Immigration Here & There, a Medill School of Journalism project - to the photo essay, "Portraits of Atletico, Louisiana"]Fernando Saucedo crossed the U.S.-Mexico border on July 4, 2005, headed for...