Exclusive Interview on the Migrant Crisis: Woman Walks From Ecuador to Texas
• August 29, 2022

Recently, I asked the president of a large Democratic women’s organization in Washington, D.C., if they had been helping any of the more than 6,000 migrants who had been bussed […]

‘El Muro/The Wall’ Dance at National Portrait Gallery (photos)
• May 21, 2022

On three successive evenings in mid-May, the Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company (DTSBDC) premiered the latest in collaboration with the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. ‘El Muro’ […]

Celebrating Latino Culture in D.C. at the ‘Parade of Nations’ (photos)
• September 13, 2021

Fiesta DC, now in its 49th year, is the annual Latino Festival in Washington D.C. One of the festival’s highlights, the “Parade of Nations,” featuring traditional costumes and entertainment from […]

Hundreds Rally on May Day to Protest Immigration Policy (photos)
• May 2, 2021

The peaceful march started at Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House and culminated with a rally on the National Mall.

Pajamas Line the National Mall Asking “Where are the Children?” (photos)
• June 10, 2019

Asking “Where are the Children?”, activists placed over a thousand pairs of childrens’ pajamas on clotheslines along the National Mall in Washington D.C. on International Children’s Day, June 9, to […]

A Primer on Immigration
• January 18, 2018

Here is a primer on immigration as our writer has come to understand it over the past 10 years, as a credentialed, non-advocate congressional journalist covering immigration reform and politics.

Controversial Visa Lottery Back in the News
• November 2, 2017

Uzbekistan, the country of origin of the “truck terrorist,” received 2,378 diversity visas in 2016; in 2010, when Sayfullo Saipov entered, his country of origin received the most diversity visas of all countries: 3,596.