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Alejandro Mayorkas was announced as President Joe Biden's DHS Secretary on Nov. 23, 2020. Photo: Getty Images.

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Mayorkas' Mountain to Climb

Born in Havana, Cuba, Mayorkas’ family fled the Cuban Revolution to settle in the U.S. in the 1960s.

February 2nd, 2021

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Ana Guajardo posing with her bike in front of a colorful mural that reads "San Antonio"

Biking for worker's power

July 27th, 2022

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Immigration advocates listen to a press conference commemorating 10 years of DACA. Photo: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

DACA's 10-year Fight

June 15th, 2022

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Photo from an end immigrant detention rally from April 2021. Photo: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images.

Action Against Detention

March 3rd, 2022

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Photo: Mayor Eric Garcetti Twitter

Naturalize 2 million by 2022

February 23rd, 2022

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Photo: ICE agent badge on September 25, 2019 in Revere, Massachusetts. Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images

Victim-Centered Approach

August 12th, 2021

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Demonstrators march through downtown Chicago on August 16, 2018, to call for the abolition of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the defunding of local police. Scott Olson/Getty Images

Targeted, not silenced

August 5th, 2021

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Rep. Jesus Garcia (D-IL) speaks at the “Impeachment Now!” rally in support of an immediate inquiry towards articles of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for MoveOn Political Action

Chuy García’s red line

August 3rd, 2021

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Carlos José Pérez Sámano has been appointed as the Penn Museum's first Resident Artist and he's launching a series of free poetry workshops for the Latinx community. Photo: Penn Museum

Heritage and History

‘One Shared Root’

July 27th, 2021

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Immigration rights activists rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019. A federal judge has dealt a fresh blow to an immigration program protecting undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children, ruling it unlawful and blocking the enrollment of new applicants. Saul Loeb/AFP / Getty Images 2019

DACA Worries… Again

July 20th, 2021

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Ed Gonzalez is sworn in before his testimony at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on his nomination to be Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in Washington, DC, on July 15, 2021. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Ed’s mixed signals

July 16th, 2021

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A cell is seen inside the Caroline Detention Facility in Bowling Green, Virginia, on August 13, 2018. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images.

There is no humane detention

July 12th, 2021

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Rep. Chuy García (D-IL) speaks at a “We Cant Wait Rally,” on the National Mall on June 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. The activists gathered to call upon the Biden administration and Congress to act on citizenship for all, climate justice, care and good jobs. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Chuy's red line

July 7th, 2021

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In this Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, file photo, Dawn Wooten, left, a nurse at Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, speaks at a news conference in Atlanta protesting conditions at the immigration jail. AP Photo/Jeff Amy

June 28th, 2021

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Vice President Kamala Harris at her meeting with Mexican President AMLO in early June 2020. Photo: Getty Images

June 24th, 2021

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Asylum seekers walk to the U.S.-Mexico border as a group of at least 25 immigrants were allowed to travel from a migrant camp in Mexico into the United States on February 25, 2021 in Matamoros, Mexico. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

#WelcomeWithDignity

June 23rd, 2021

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A wall in the Aquinas Center details the journey of immigrants to the U.S. Photo: Nigel Thompson/AL DÍA News.

June 22nd, 2021

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ADELANTO, CA - NOVEMBER 15: An immigrant detainee holds his daughter during a family visitation visit at the Adelanto Detention Facility on November 15, 2013 in Adelanto, California. The facility, the largest and newest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), detention center in California, houses an average of 1,100 immigrants in custody pending a decision in their immigration cases or awaiting deportation. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

People not profit

June 14th, 2021

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No tech for ICE

June 9th, 2021

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The Department of Homeland Security flag flies outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Washington. (Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images)

An Important first step

May 20th, 2021

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Torres is the only Central American serving in Congress. She is co-Chair of the Central Americans Caucus. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

Bukele in Focus

May 19th, 2021

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AOC plus 35 lawmakers are urging the Biden administration to“End the carceral approach to immigration.” Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI | Credit: AFP via Getty Images

Ending Carceral Immigration

May 18th, 2021

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AOC plus 35 lawmakers are urging the Biden administration to“End the carceral approach to immigration.” Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI | Credit: AFP via Getty Images

Ending ‘Carceral Immigration

May 18th, 2021

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AOC plus 35 lawmakers are urging the Biden administration to“End the carceral approach to immigration.” Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI | Credit: AFP via Getty Images

Ending ‘Carceral Immigration

May 18th, 2021

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Immigrant mothers demand pathway to citizenship on day Citizenship for Essential Workers Bill is heard in Senate Judiciary CommitteePhoto Courtesy: CASA

March for citizenship

May 12th, 2021

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A shackled migrant woman in federal custody arrives for an immigration hearing at the US federal courthouse on June 12, 2019, in McAllen, Texas. Photo: Loren Elliott/AFP via Getty Images

Fixing Immigration Court

May 10th, 2021

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On the day Julián announced his candidacy for President of the United States, he talked about health care and education, economic prosperity and immigration. And he also talked about the frightening rate at which unarmed black and brown folks have been killed by law enforcement officers all over America. Gettyimages

Julián Castro vs. The System

May 4th, 2021

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It’s no help that the Trump administration withheld data that would have helped to reunite families. There are countless documents that the incoming administration is only just beginning to sort through.

Four out of hundreds

May 3rd, 2021

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Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Freedom for Families Act on April 29. Photo: Berks County Family Detention Center. By John Moore/Getty Images

Freedom for Families

April 29th, 2021

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Biden’s actions over the last three months are without any “sweeping” reform. Photo: DREW ANGERER/GETTY

100 Days in Review

April 28th, 2021

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Ed Gonzalez Photo: Harris County Sheriffs Office

A Latino Leading ICE?

April 27th, 2021

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Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Refugee Cap Blunder

April 19th, 2021

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From corruption, climate change, violence, and the U.S.'s own botched foreign policy, the causes for Central American migration to beyond the southern border. Photo: Getty Images

Beyond the border

April 9th, 2021

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Torres’ administration announced she requested a report on corrupt officials in Central American to be delivered to Congress, expected to be delivered this week. Photo: Photo: Jacquelyn Martin-Pool/Getty Images

April 6th, 2021

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Rep. Joaquin Castro led a Congressional delegation to the Carrizo Springs Office of Refugee Resettlement facility for unaccompanied children in Texas. Photo: Twitter

Castro Goes to the Border

March 26th, 2021

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Image after Hurricane Iota left the Planeta municipality in La Lima, Honduras, submerged in water. Photograph: Yoseph Amaya/Getty Images

Climate Drives Border Crisis

March 25th, 2021