By Maryclaire Dale PHILADELPHIA — Civil rights lawyers have sued a third U.S. school district over what they call a practice of denying older refugee and immigrant students a meaningful education by steering them to alternative high schools. The plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Pennsylvania are refugees […]
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By Rick Armon and Katie Byard The foreign-born population in Akron — everyone from refugees to international students — is an economic powerhouse, a new study says. That group held nearly $137 million in spending power in 2013 and helped boost the total housing value in Summit County by $207 […]
WINDHAM, Conn. — Ivonne Barcenas grew up in the hometown of the University of Georgia and had hopes of studying there — until she found out that immigrants without permanent legal status are prohibited from attending the state’s top public universities. Instead Barcenas, whose family immigrated to the United States […]
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN – Associated Press – Thursday, May 26, 2016 BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – A Louisiana man has pleaded guilty to a charge that he preyed on dozens of illegal immigrants in federal detention facilities by promising them legal assistance but taking their money without providing any help. […]