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Parsonage recommends no one open their doors for ICE if they're visited at their home. ERIN HOOLEY/AP

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Winston-Salem immigration attorney says clients are on high alert as Trump presidency begins

7:00am January 24, 2025

Helen Parsonage, a Winston-Salem immigration attorney, discusses how she and her clients are feeling after President Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday.

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A boy looks through a border wall separating Mexico from the United States

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Republican-led states are rolling out plans that could aid Trump's mass deportation effort

7:34am December 10, 2024

by David A. Lieb, Associated Press

As President-elect Donald Trump assembles his administration, Republican governors and lawmakers in some states are already rolling out proposals that could help him carry out his pledge to deport millions of people living in the U.S. illegally.

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JD Vance courts Gen Z voters at High Point University town hall

4:43pm October 31, 2024

by April Laissle

The event was hosted by Turning Point Action, a right-wing activist group known in part for spreading false claims about the 2020 election and COVID-19 vaccines.

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All politics are national: Piedmont and High Country voters sound off

3:50pm October 23, 2024

by David Ford

WFDD gathers input from North Carolina voters in the Piedmont and High Country on a wide variety of national political issues including public education, abortion and immigration.

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Serving Hope -- Shereen Gomaa

4:10pm July 31, 2024

by Rohan Dayal

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Former President Donald Trump speaks at rally

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Donald Trump campaigns in Greensboro with a focus on the border

4:45pm March 02, 2024

by David Ford

Presidential candidate Donald Trump campaigned in Greensboro on Saturday, just days before North Carolina's primary. Border security was on the minds of many in attendance.

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Demonstrators hold up signs outside the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals building in New Orleans on Wednesday as a panel of judges heard arguments on the Obama-era program that prevents the deportation of thousands of immigrants brought into the U.S. as

Appeals court hears arguments over GOP-leaning states' suit to end DACA

5:55pm July 06, 2022

by The Associated Press

A federal judge in Texas last year declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program dead but left it intact while his order is appealed by the Justice Department and advocacy groups.

A migrant family stands waiting to be processed on Thursday in Roma, Texas.

Texas governor says the state may contest a Supreme Court ruling on migrant education

5:19pm May 06, 2022

by Bill Chappell

Gov. Greg Abbott says the court's ruling in 1982 has imposed an unfair burden on Texas.

Ukrainian refugees wait in a bus stop near the Mexico border in early April. The arrival of hundreds of Ukrainians at the border since the war began has added more pressure on the Biden administration to lift Title 42.

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What to know about Title 42, the Trump-era policy now central to the border debate

5:00am April 24, 2022

by Deepa Shivaram

A decades-old public health order is back in the spotlight as it's set to expire next month — a move that is long-overdue for immigration advocates. Here are some Title 42 basics, and some history.

Customs and Border Protection agents apprehend a group of Brazilian migrants in Otay Mesa, Calif., in August 2021.

The U.S. is ending its pandemic border rules. It could mean a surge in migration

12:54pm April 01, 2022

by Laurel Wamsley

The Biden administration is moving to end sweeping pandemic border restrictions known as Title 42 on May 23. The controversial public health order was used to quickly expel migrants at the border.