by yasmeen | Jun 3, 2021 | Good Question
By Yasmeen Altaji, Medill, Immigrant Connect Third country removals have been the default method for potentially dangerous deportations. Experts say that under the Biden administration, this may need to change. When Jimmy Aldaoud was deported from the U.S. to Iraq, it...
by yasmeen | Jun 2, 2021 | Identity, Work, Jobs and Money
By Yasmeen Altaji, Medill, Immigrant Connect June 2021 A smiley young man is working behind the register, tending to miscellaneous knick-knacks and a mid-afternoon influx of customers, his pandemic-precautionary mask almost covering...
by yasmeen | May 12, 2021 | About, Our Staff
By Yasmeen Altaji, Medill, immigrant Connect May 2021 My mother, my grandmother and I mindlessly walk a winding path toward my grandfather’s headstone. I watch as my mother lays down a...
