Immigration

Ohio State University will begin a brand new immigration law clinic in the fall for immigrants in Ohio who are looking for legal counsel

In late May, the Butler County Jail canceled its contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hold immigration detainees. That started a 60–day period to release, deport or move detainees to other ICE detention centers.That period finishes at the end of July. An immigration attorney talks about how that's unfolded.

Despite a push to prioritize human trafficking in Ohio, labor trafficking continues to get less attention from media and law enforcement than sex trafficking.

Agencies across Ohio face increase challenges on a host of of issues due to the pandemic and policies of the former Trump administration.

Immigrant families struggle to support their kids and communities in an age of online learning.

What's it like for a teenager to navigate life in the Miami Valley as a refugee from Africa? Today, we take an intimate view of this journey from Joselyne Kamikazi, a high school senior.

As healthcare workers in the U.S. received COVID-19 vaccines, many were relieved and hopeful. But doctors who are foreign-born also describe a...

Choco Valdez was born in Mexico and came to the U.S. the most difficult way – on foot, at night, through the cold desert. His wife, Jennie Valdez, knows the story well.

Mohamed and Ali Al-Hamdani came to the U.S. as refugees with their parents from Iraq, and they have hair raising stories about their experiences during the Iraq war 30 years ago, when they were just little boys.

Martha Jeannette Rodriguez is from Columbia, where she had a restaurant that was targeted for extortion after years of persecution. As a result, she sent two of her children to the U.S. to live with relatives. Eventually the whole family came and was granted political asylum.

In the second installment of WYSO's series The Bind That Ties, we hear Mojgan Samardar, who we met briefly last week, and Mirza Mirza, a local businessman of Turkish ancestry.

A new series begins this week on WYSO called The Bind that Ties. In it, you will hear a dozen people in conversations, talking about living and working and raising a family as an immigrant in the Miami Valley.