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ICE Contracts with Metropolitan Knoxville Generate Fear with Rural Immigrants
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agreements with a single county can affect an entire region, immigration advocates say. In…
December 1, 2020
An Immigration Ban Would Have Doubled Rural Population Loss
New residents from foreign countries were the bright spot in rural America’s population picture from 2010 to 2019.…
April 24, 2020
W.Va. Faces A Direct Care Workforce Shortage — One Possible Solution? Immigration.
In 1965, Charleston, West Virginia, was home to about 85,000 residents — now, that number has almost halved.…
February 10, 2020
A National Survey On Immigration Led Me To A Rural Iowa Town Changed By Immigrants
This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. On a Monday night, a week before the Iowa…
February 3, 2020
Losing It All: Natural Disasters and America’s Immigrant Worker
We’re in the midst of the 2019 hurricane season, and people in the Bahamas are still recovering from…
October 11, 2019
LISTEN: A Discussion on Immigration and Poultry in Moorefield, W.Va.
For more than a decade, more than 100 migrant and refugee families from countries like Myanmar (formerly Burma),…
August 26, 2019