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A medida que el conflicto de Tigray continúa en Etiopía, el chef de Chicago, Tigist Reda, se queda con más preguntas que respuestas.

As human rights abuses continue in Ethiopia, Chicago chef Tigist Reda is among the many Ethiopians in the U.S. who are left with more questions than answers.

From volunteer to a lawyer, Linda Rivas is fighting the uphill battle for immigration reform.

De voluntaria a abogada, Linda Rivas lucha en la batalla cuesta arriba de las reformas de inmigración.

After being detained by immigration authorities, a 27-year-old Mexican immigrant finds a chance for an education with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program.

Cuando Tomás Díaz, de 36 años, vivía en Estados Unidos trabajaba 17 horas al día y tenía gastos impensables.

Más de la mitad de los trabajadores de agricultura en los Estados Unidos no tienen seguro médico. Eso puede ser un riesgo con COVID.

Lupita vino a los Estados Unidos y empezó a estudiar periodismo, pero debido a la pandemia de COVID-19 ahora se encuentra sin hogar.

Lupita came to the U.S. and started studying journalism but she’s now homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Jesús “El Caracol” Tavizón Rodriguez has housed and fed thousands of immigrants in his shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico over the last 20 years.

Jesús “El Caracol” Tavizón Rodríguez le ha proporcionado comida y sustento a miles de inmigrantes en su albergue en Ciudad Juárez, México los últimos 20 años. 

La primera en una serie de postales de la frontera es de un joven de 24 años llamado Toño, el recuerda su trayectoria desde México hacia Estados Unidos.

The first in a series of Postcards from the Border is from 24-year-old Toño, who recounts his journey from Mexico to the United States.

For Mexican immigrant Selina Armenta, today’s Supreme Court decision on DACA means that her life can remain stable a little longer.

Two local organizers tell Borderless Magazine just what’s at stake with keeping migrant children shelters open in Chicago.

The true story of one man's asylum journey from Syria to Chicago.

In Malaysia and Myanmar, the census was a time of fear. But here in Chicago, Abdul Jabbar sees it as a chance for greater funding and visibility.

Therapists and social workers trained in trauma care are helping asylum seekers along their legal and healing journey.

Asylum seekers who undergo medical exams as part of their legal case are more than twice as likely to be granted asylum.

Kristel and Mario fled violence in Honduras only to be separated from each other and detained for 5 months. Now, they are starting over.

President Trump signed a 90-day asylum ban Friday that makes it harder for immigrants to claim asylum. But just who are asylum seekers?

Before he became the best-selling author author of “The Kite Runner,” Khaled Hosseini was an asylum seeker.

After someone tried to kill him in Ecuador because of his sexual orientation, Luis Mancheno found a new home and calling in the United States.

Natalie González is a Mexico-based artist and illustrator.

Earlier this year Jesús “Chuy” García scored a victory in the Democratic primary for Illinois’ lone Latinx-majority congressional seat.

The CPD keeps a database of suspected gang members that has been used to target undocumented immigrants in Chicago

Fanny Diego-Alvarez was born in the state of Guerrero in Mexico and moved with her family to Little Village when she was six years old.

From the traditional dances to the colorful murals, Little Village is all about art, says Omar Magana.

Faustina Montoya is from the Mexican state of Guerrero and has lived in Chicago for twenty-seven years.

After Trump’s inauguration in 2017, some businesses along 27th Street in Chicago’s Little Village lost fifty percent of their sales.

They came to destroy. ISIS forces flooded the Sinjar region of Iraq at dawn determined to wipe out Yazidism, an ancient faith with a rich oral tradition.

At least 8,372 Muslim Bosniaks were killed in the 1995 Srebrenica genocide when Bosnian Serb soldiers swept into a U.N.-designated “safe haven.” Šehović remembers the fear and horror that her family experienced at the time, emotions that she has channeled into her public monument to the genocide: ŠTO TE NEMA or “Why are you not here?”

Photographer Omar Imam speaks about what it means to be a Syrian refugee six years into a conflict that has scattered Syrians across the world.

In April, President Donald Trump pledged not to deport undocumented immigrants with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status — aka “Dreamers” — telling the more than 875,000 people brought to the U.S. illegally as children that they should “rest easy.”

After living in the United States for 25 years, Aram Han Sifuentes applied to be a citizen this week.

On March 27, Wilmer Catalan-Ramirez was dragged from his home by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents posing as police officers.

Maudlyne Ihejirika is an award-winning reporter and editor who has spent over 25 years at the Chicago Sun-Times.

More than 17,000 Syrians have been killed in government custody since March 2011, and an estimated 100,000 people are still missing and presumed detained or killed, according to Syrian human rights groups.

An ethnic Ukrainian, he began his life in a refugee camp in Munich, Germany in 1949.

Susan Adeeb came to the United States as a refugee from Iraq. During the Iraq War, she served as an interpreter for the U.S. Provincial Authority.

It’s been three months since Khaled Almilaji has seen his pregnant wife.

Diana Cruz was born and raised in Chicago and converted to Islam 17 years ago.

Tango dancer, log cabin builder, Syrian immigrant: Jafra Saif is anything but typical.

Seventeen-year-old Malak Afaneh was learning about Rosie the Riveter in a class at her high school in Chicago when an idea struck her: What if Rosie was Muslim?

I was welcomed, and I’m thankful.