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BOSTON – For Gladys Freeman, an African immigrant, her skill at braiding hair in traditional ways gave her the key to charting her own path in America. Freeman, who came to the area 18 years ago from Sierra Leone, owns and operates Dazzles Hair Salon on Washington Street in Roslindale, where
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. tried repeatedly to deport Jean Jacques, an immigrant living in the U.S. illegally, but his native Haiti wouldn't take him back after he served more than a decade in a state prison for attempted murder and committed multiple parole violations. Each time
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michelle wu
Although only in her first term as a Boston City Councilor At-Large, Councilwoman Michelle Wu is already breaking down barriers – both in government and in immigrant neighborhoods.
mexico
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The vast majority of immigrant children who arrive alone at the U.S. border are placed by the government with adults who are in the country illegally, federal data reviewed by The Associated Press show. The government has long said that it places the children with family
Maura Healey
BOSTON – As hundreds of immigrants and supporters gathered to lobby for legislation to benefit their communities, state Attorney General Maura Healey, a Democrat, took the opportunity to brand Republican Donald Trump as an unAmerican "extremist" who threatens them and their families. "When people like Donald Trump and
Immigration
By all accounts Suman Lal was headed for a career in medicine, but it was conversations with a fellow scientist Pradeep Paul Panengad about how women struggle with their hair that launched him into the development of a new product that could change hair salons all over the world. Current
Donald Trump
Clearly, lots of Americans are mad about immigration. But we libertarians believe that people trapped in horrible countries deserve a chance at a better life and that free trade in labor, not just products, is a good thing.
Immigration
It's been 50 years since Lyndon Johnson signed the Immigration Act of 1965 into law. In that time, the law has accomplished two things: First, it ended the offensive and discriminatory national origins quota system, as intended. Second, it has radically transformed America and will change the country
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