When the Obama administration announced an expanded immigration initiative this week to address an escalating humanitarian crisis in Central America, it seemed almost paradoxical. On one hand, the government was broadening a program for children fleeing three violence-racked countries there, allowing for more applicants to enter the United States as […]
Daily Archives: July 29, 2016
PHILADELPHIA — When Belen Sisa was in high school and her friends were landing their first jobs, getting driver’s licenses and making plans for college, she was making excuses. Sisa, whose parents illegally immigrated from Argentina when she was 6, hid that fact from her friends in Florence. “People would ask me, ‘Why […]