immigration

Fraser Smith and John Fritze, of the Baltimore Sun's Washington Bureau, examine the politics of immigration and refugees.

The new, immigrant blood that has always made this country stronger flows with undiminished power at Maryland's citizenship center in southwest Baltimore.…

This summer, tens of thousands of undocumented immigrant children fled poverty and brutal gang violence in Central America to come to the U.S. Over three…

Last September, Williams Guevara left behind his family’s cramped two-bedroom home near San Salvador to travel hundreds of miles by foot, by car, and in…

WYPR's Fraser Smith and John Wagner of the Washington Post talk about Governor Martin O'Malley's (and local faith leaders') efforts to find a suitable…

WYPR's Fraser Smith and Josh Kurtz of Center Maryland talk about the crisis of more than 50,000 undocumented children at the border, and the role of…

WYPR's Nathan Sterner and Jeremy Bauer-Wolf of MarylandReporter.com talk about two proposed bills in the General Assembly that would each create a…

WYPR's Fraser Smith and John Fritze of the Baltimore Sun talk about the higher number of Maryland-based undocumented immigrants deported under the federal…

Much of the focus on the immigration overhaul bill has been on what to do about the millions of people working illegally in the U.S. But things might change for a smaller subset of immigrant workers. The bill proposes doubling the number of skilled worker visas available to companies that want to hire foreign workers.