Tag: Immigration

People stand on a sidewalk beneath a pale gray sky. The street behind them is between two tan stone buildings with floor-to-ceiling glass windows on their ground levels, and the multicolored glass exterior of a parking garage shines further down the street, next to some taller red brick buildings. Glass windows are visible behind the people on the sidewalk. Some of them wear raincoats or windbreakers, and some of them hold umbrellas of various colors. Two men in the right half of the image, one southeast Asian and one white, wear clerical collars. They are all waving wooden rods with thick red ribbons tied to the ends of them in the air. Most of the people present appear to be white and/or over the age of 50. One bearded, middle-aged man in a gray and black windbreaker and black pants points a camera towards the bottom right corner of the image, where a blue banner reads “GOD STANDS WITH THE OPPRESSED.” To the banner’s left, a canvas with a monarch butterfly painted on it is draped over a concrete sidewalk barrier. A blue bicycle is parked behind the man with the camera, and a black car in the street drives past the group of people.

‘These are our people’: Weekly vigils unite faiths on ICE’s doorstep

July 7, 2026Frances Claire Kenney

For months, an interfaith group has prayed outside of Philadelphia’s ICE field office every Wednesday afternoon. They are approaching their 40-week goal.

Philadelphia Residents Organize Against the Threat of National Guard Deployment

October 15, 2025Robert Yu-Tian Hsu

As the Trump administration send National Guard troops to cities across the U.S., District Attorney Larry Krasner held town hall meetings to organize Philadelphia residents In a crowded church, on an unseasonably warm evening for

South Philadelphia: Juntos Greets Latinx Immigrants with Community and Resources

May 25, 2022Nikhil Stride

Juntos is a community based organization that works to help Latinx immigrants with any issues they might run into here in Philadelphia.

Immigration: Office of Immigrant Affairs Works With Refugee and Immigrant Population

April 25, 2022Nikhil Stride

Amy Eusebio holds a background in social work and has utilized that experience to go into helping immigrants that need assistance with getting immersed/adjusted to the United States, and more specifically Philadelphia.

Wharton: Authentic Mexican Restaurant an Immigrant Family Affair

March 25, 2022Nikhil Stride

The Cortez family opened up a Mexican restaurant that sells authentic Birria Tacos after immigrating from Guatemala back in 2013. They worked hard to sustain the business amidst a global pandemic, while providing the public with high quality Mexican food.

Chinatown: Protestors Demonstrate Outside ICE Office, Inside Bus Station

October 4, 2019Lawrence McGlynn

Members of the Philadelphia Workers Solidarity Network protested outside the Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency office at 114 N. Eighth St on Saturday, Sept. 14, . The target of the protest was not just the

Mayfair: Dance Moves Between Cultures

January 29, 2019David Mattera

What started as a two-person weekly exercise routine at a local park blossomed into an almost 200-person expression of cross-cultural understanding in the Mayfair section of Philadelphia. “Exercise in the Park,” as locals refer to

Mayfair: Store Owner Builds Bridges Between Cultures

January 28, 2019David Mattera

Keith Xiao is the owner of F & L Minimart on Frankford Avenue in Mayfair. He is also one of seven founders and, now, executive director of the Northeast Philadelphia Development Corporation, an organization that

Immigration: Alphabet Book Announced At Philadelphia’s Welcoming Week

September 21, 2018Christopher Malo

A new alphabet book designed to promote insight into immigration was announced Friday, Sept. 14, at the kick-off of Philadelphia’s Welcoming Week, a weeklong event meant to forge dialogue between immigrants, non-immigrants, refugees and native

Immigration Law: Glancing At History

September 19, 2018Means George

President Donald Trump’s dedication to enacting a travel ban was finally approved by the Supreme Court on June 26 after the administration’s third revision of the policy finally passed in a 5-4 vote. It may