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WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Isabelle Taft, immigration reporter with New York Focus, about her reporting on the amount of money NY jails received to detain immigrants.

Historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez has spent much of her career examining the connections between race, immigration, and the power of the state. In her new book 'Racist by Design: Two Centuries of US Immigration Control,' she traces the history of American immigration policy back more than two centuries, arguing that race has been central to the ways the nation has regulated who can enter, remain, and belong.

Orange County Sheriff Paul Arteta joined 14 other county sheriffs in New York in support of a lawsuit challenging the Local Cops Local Crimes Act, which would ban the county jail from housing ICE detainees.

On Monday, the Newburgh Town Board unanimously approved a resolution opposing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's use of a warehouse at 800 Corporate Drive Boulevard.

The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more people to potential deportation.

Naturalization ceremonies resumed last week after the ceremonies were cancelled in Ulster, Putnam, and Dutchess counties last winter by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Megha Majumdar’s follow-up to her first bestseller is the new novel, 'A Guardian and a Thief.' It unfolds over one taut week in a near-future Kolkata reeling from climate disaster and food shortages. Two families—strangers to each other—are pushed into collision.

For six days in mid-March, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says over 300 people were arrested across Massachusetts, following a series of raids targeting what they deemed “egregious criminal alien offenders.” Within days, the Trump administration noted some of that figure included “collateral” arrests. An immigration attorney and local advocates say several men in Springfield were among them.

The Council of Albany Neighborhood Associations held a meeting Thursday night discussing the city's response to immigration enforcement.

“A Lien,” written and directed by brothers David and Sam Cutler-Kreutz, drops viewers into the tense and complicated experience that a noncitizen can go through in the U.S. legalization process.The short film, which is nominated for an Academy Award, follows a young couple navigating their Green Card interview at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office when Immigration and Customs Enforcement - or ICE - makes an unexpected appearance and the afternoon takes a turn for the worse, putting the couple and their young daughter in unexpected danger.