Jasmine Garsd
Jasmine Garsd is an Argentine-American journalist living in New York. She is currently NPR's Criminal Justice correspondent and the host of The Last Cup. She started her career as the co-host of Alt.Latino, an NPR show about Latin music. Throughout her reporting career she's focused extensively on women's issues and immigrant communities in America. She's currently writing a book of stories about women she's met throughout her travels.
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Residents of the Southern California border community of Jacumba say hundreds of migrants are dropped off every day at ad hoc sites where conditions are often dire. They call it a humanitarian crisis. -
The migrant surge at the southern border hit a record of over 2.4 million. Republicans say it's a failure of Biden's policies. The U.N. says, globally, there's never been so many displaced people.
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Jewish Americans critical of how Israel and the U.S. are responding to Hamas' attack say they're ostracized by the mainstream U.S. Jewish community. They worry there's no room for dissenting voices.
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Residents of the Paterson, N.J., community say nearly everyone there knows someone killed in the Israel-Hamas war.
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The deal, which a federal judge must approve, bars immigration officials from imposing a blanket policy of family separation for the next eight years. It does not provide any monetary compensation.
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Over 100,000 migrants have sought shelter in New York City in the last year or so. Some are pregnant women fleeing violence and poverty. NPR followed the daily lives of three women.
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Around 20,000 migrant kids are starting school in New York this week. Some parents are concerned the systems can't handle the influx. Other parents say, it's an opportunity for schools to evolve.
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The wait time for an asylum-seeker in the U.S. to get a work permit is at least half a year. City governments across the country are pressing the federal government to change that.
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Local non-profits say they are stretched too thin to take on extra cases and some community leaders have said more migrants are not welcome.
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The humanitarian aid group Border Kindness leaves water and other aid in areas along the U.S.-Mexico border. They say people are ill-prepared for conditions on uncharted trails.
