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Posts tagged with Immigration

Last Updated: Feb. 29, 2016 · 10:18 a.m.

Yazmin Auli, Manuela Guillen, and Fabiola Lara

Latino Life in Philly

Cómo tres latinas en Filadelfia están tratando de mantener un equilibrio saludable entre el trabajo y la vida personal

El impulso cultural de trabajar duro, ayudar a su familia y salir adelante a veces entra en conflicto con el cuidado de sí mismo.

Yazmin Auli, Manuela Guillen, and Fabiola Lara

Latino Life in Philly

How three Latinas in Philly are trying to maintain a healthy work-life balance

The cultural drive to work hard, help your family, and get ahead sometimes conflicts with taking care of yourself.

Children and adult from Afghanistan at PHL Airport

Nearly half the Afghan evacuees are children. Here are photos of kids coming through Philadelphia.

The operation has slowed down, but planes carrying hundreds evacuated from Afghanistan are still arriving at PHL.

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Scenes from the Philly airport welcoming center for Afghan evacuees

You can help by donating to local relief organizations.

Staffer Barbara Jackson has worked at Rosa’s on-and-off for the past 30 years

Secret Philly: The story of Rosa Photo, that FBI fingerprinting truck at 16th and Callowhill

Started by a lawyer from the Dominican Republic, the business became a staple in the Philly immigrant community.

Pennsylvania Second Lady Gisele Fetterman with husband Lt. Gov. John Fetterman

‘This is the first time it was to my face’: Gisele Fetterman talks about racist attack at Aldi

The supermarket chain says the woman who used the slur is banned from its stores.

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Philly’s coronavirus response

All the Philly coronavirus helplines, in one convenient directory

There’s lots of ways to get info about COVID-19.

A CPB officer helps a passenger navigate one of the new facial recognition kiosks that've already been rolled out in Houston

Face scanners are coming to PHL Airport next week

A pilot program at three international gates will test the new tech before it's rolled out everywhere.

A scene from the 'Lights for Liberty' vigil in Collingswood, N.J. on July 12, 2019

‘Lights for Liberty’ vigils, protests draw thousands rallying against ICE raids and border camps

Marchers in Philadelphia said they were trying to "catch the attention of those who can fix broken immigration laws.”

Paintings by Northeast High School students in the 'Immigrant Alphabet' art project hanging on MSB in 2017

Philly immigrant earnings — and taxes paid — are up 13%, per new report

The region has one of the most stable foreign-born populations in the country.

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Ballot question: Should Philly have a permanent office to help immigrants?

The Office of Immigrant Affairs is currently only temporary.

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What you need to know about Philly’s municipal ID

Philadelphia becomes the latest city to offer alternative photo identification.

Loroko pupusas come with traditional curtido and tomato salsa

Pupusas in South Philly! This mother-daughter pop-up is worth seeking out

Loroko serves Central American masa cakes hot off the griddle.

North Philly residents spoke out passionately against an immigrant youth shelter proposed for their neighborhood — following documented instances of staff hurting and demeaning children at another site

A glowing, glossy profile of Philadelphia as home to 50,000 immigrant entrepreneurs

Republican Sen. Pat Toomey on why he voted to end Trump’s national emergency declaration over border wall funding

President Trump declared an emergency. Neither of Pennsylvania’s senators are happy about it.

A federal appeals court just upheld the ruling that the DOJ can’t cut off grant funding based off sanctuary city status

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Carmela Apolonio Hernandez and her four children moved into a Germantown church for sanctuary from immigration officials. This is the family’s second sanctuary — they lived in North Philly’s Church of the Advocate for an entire year

Carmela Hernández and her four children have sought refuge from ICE in North Philly’s Church of the Advocate for over a year

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