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Vanessa Gutierrez doesn't remember Mexico.It's there in her baby pictures, in family albums. She's seen what it looks like, and she knows she was born…
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By now you've seen the images. Millions of refugees fleeing war zones in Syria and Iraq, trying desperately to reach a new life anywhere else. And the…
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They say it's 11 million people. Fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers. People who are living in the United States without a piece of paper to prove they…
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Three years ago this month, a new federal program got underway that’s since affected the lives of more than half a million young Americans – thousands of…
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It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.We’ve all heard the saying. But for young people who come to the United States as immigrants, getting to know…
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The federal government is still trying to find temporary shelter for the thousands of children who have fled from Central America, often by themselves.…
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This story has been updated to reflect new information. Our State of Opportunity project has been following the story of a little boy named Charlie. His…
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We all know the sequence of life stages: Infant. Toddler. Child. Adolescent. Young Adult. Adult… But historically we haven’t always marched through these…