By Pam G. Dempsey/CU-CitizenAccess - For journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, a driver’s license meant working for the Washington Post - a job he really wa
Read MoreBy Pam G. Dempsey/CU-CitizenAccess -- Over the past decade there has been a deep demographic shift in Central Illinois as the population of Hispa
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By Azra Halilovic /CU-CitizenAccess.org / Hoy -- Last December, the CU-Immigration Forum held a public meeting at the Champaign Public Library to disc
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By Sean Powers /Illinois Public Media -- Angelina Lopez, 47, is a single mother in central Illinois who came into the U.S. illegally 10 years ago.
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This project was hatched over Thai food at the YMCA in Champaign between the journalists from Hoy-Chicago and CU-CitizenAccess.org. Hoy had been th
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By Jeff Kelly Lowenstein/Hoy -- Rantoul is a town with a proud military heritage. You see it on the name “Veterans Parkway” and the series of red,
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By Jeff Kelly Lowenstein/Hoy --- Latinos in Urbana and Champaign make up 5 and 6 percent of the population, respectively, and, from 2007 to 2011, abou
Read MoreThis is a look overall at closed federal deportation cases that have resulted in either voluntary or removal departure orders since Fiscal Year 2008.
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By Azra Halilovic / CU-CitizenAccess.org / Hoy -- Out in the middle of farm country in Central Illinois, Arturo Zendeja and his wife run the town’s fi
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By Azra Halilovic / CU-CitizenAccess.org / Hoy-- It was 40 years ago that 7-year-old Herlinda Kauffman squeezed into a brown Chevy Impala in Mexico wi
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