(Im)migration Recap July 29-August 4 | Voice of America - English
Editor's note: We wanted a way to keep you updated with the top immigration, migration and refugee stories every week — the ones that will most affect you, our international readers, viewers and listeners. We want you to know what's happening, why and how it could impact your life, family or business, so we created a weekly digest of the top original immigration reporting from across VOA.
? endured abuse and indentured servitude at a California factory. Now, she's being recognized for her work to end labor trafficking in the U.S. Flor told VOA's Ramon Taylor about the moment her former boss hit her. After months of fretting about monsoon season, officials in Bangladesh are in Cox’s Bazar to protect them from flooding and the pelting waves of rain that threatened thousands of camp residents. “I feel I am in a kind of prison where life is very uncertain and does not point to any kind of light or hope,” one refugee said. from a camp show the dire situation, and the United Nations is warning of for the Rohingya community in exile. I he wants “merit-based” and “skilled” immigrants. So why is the administration making it harder for those same people to stay? And what do the changes to legal immigration mean for would-be new Americans? Sorry, but your browser cannot support embedded video of this type, you can             to view it offline. The of New York are angry, and they're headed to the U.S.-Mexico frontier to make it known. The six-day, multistate moving protest is border-bound to protest the Trump administration's family separation policy. Other communities around the country have for detained migrant parents and children as sentiment against the policy runs high. But their outrage does not seem to mean that attitudes toward immigration are changing. Amid political violence in Nicaragua, neighboring Costa Rica is becoming a  for the displaced — and so are the so-called “northern triangle” countries in Central America that are a source of much migration to the United States.