Immigration

The DC Council unanimously passed emergency legislation earlier this month to patch up weak spots in the District’s "sanctuary city" policies. The new bill forbids officials at the DC Department of Corrections from cooperating with federal…

Hundreds of community leaders, activists and immigrants joined together in Columbia Heights last Saturday to rally against raids in DC a week earlier by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The event was organized primarily by Sanctuary…

After two decades, Karla still recalls traveling through the desert with her brother and aunt in 1998 on their way from El Salvador, reliant on a “coyote” to get the three of them where they needed to go. Her mother was already in…