Tag: black & white
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The Freedom to Go to Work
//Witness“Because here, people can go to work.” For most Americans, those words would hardly seem worth mentioning. But for Bernardo, a Cuban immigrant who has built his life in Austin, Minnesota, they reveal a troubling reality: a town that depends on immigrant workers, even as those workers live with the fear of immigration enforcement.
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So That Is Also Who We Are
//WitnessFor more than three decades, immigration attorney Elizabeth Streefland has sought out the stories of strangers—only to discover they were never strangers at all. Through her experiences with immigrants, families, and an increasingly unforgiving legal system, she reveals the human lives behind immigration policy and reminds us of another America: one that still opens its…
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When Fear Closed Doors, They Opened Theirs
//WitnessWhen fear drove immigrant families in Austin behind closed doors, Flor and Maria kept showing up—bringing food, answering calls, guiding neighbors through uncertainty, and reminding us what it means to help when others are afraid.
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The Fear Doesn’t Leave When the Agents Do
//WitnessThe immigration raids may have eased in Austin, Minnesota, but the fear they created has not. Children still wonder whether their parents will be home after school, whether they need to carry passports—and whether they can make it safely from the car to the front door.
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The Miracle We Refuse to See
//WitnessJane Graupman has spent nearly four decades helping immigrants and refugees rebuild their lives—and watching Minnesota become stronger because they did. Her story reveals the people behind the politics: health-care workers, separated families, newly arrived refugees, and communities connected from St. Paul to Kakuma.
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Taken
//WitnessInside the families apartment, a father explains why his wife did not come home from work. A baby no longer sleeps through the night. A fourteen-year-old weighs whether it is safe to attend school. This is not a headline. It is a family adjusting to life after their wife and mother was taken.
