Immigration

Meet Katia Maklouf from Algeria. She talks about how her Dayton roommate has made her transition to life in America so much easier.

We begin a new season of a series about immigrants in the Miami Valley – it’s called The Bind that Ties. In this iteration we meet Ales Ficko – from Slovenia.

An Ohio House committee recently proposed a bill banning gender transition medications and procedures for minors. Dion Green, a survivor of the mass shooting that happened in Dayton, Ohio visits Buffalo.

If lawmakers approve the amendment, it could go before voters this fall — and would likely boost Republican turnout.

A quilt showing the history of the discriminatory practice of redlining in the city of Dayton is on display at the Montgomery County Auditor’s Office.

On Sunday, members of the Old North Dayton Neighborhood Association and the surrounding community got together to celebrate the grand opening of a market on Stanley Avenue.

In 2019, immigrant entrepreneurs in Montgomery County brought in close to $39 million in business income, according to the report.

Immigrants make up an estimated 40 percent of the U.S. meat processing workforce. Last year’s wave of COVID outbreaks at meatpacking plants exposed many vulnerabilities among the industry’s diverse workforce.

Most Americans can look at their lineage and find that families and ancestors came here from somewhere else. Americans, for the most part, are immigrants or descendants of immigrants. But getting here, and saying goodbye to home, isn’t easy. For some, the immigration system itself adds to their hardship. They yearn for more empathy.

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.