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Greg Boyle — The Calling of Delight: Gangs, Service, and Kinship
A Jesuit priest famous for his gang intervention programs in Los Angeles, Fr. Greg Boyle makes winsome connections between service and delight, and compassion and awe. He heads Homeboy Industries,...
View ArticleAdvocates Warn of a School-to-Deportation Pipeline
The New York Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday said immigrant students in Long Island recently were suspended from school for alleged MS-13 gang affiliation based on what they called "weak allegations"...
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MS-13 Gang Crackdown Relies on 'Questionable' Evidence From Schools
A high school junior — WNYC is calling her Vanessa — arrived in Brentwood, Long Island, two years ago as an unaccompanied minor from Central America. Then she spent a month in the immigration wing of a...
View ArticleTrump Is Making MS-13 Stronger
If you were an administration hell-bent on stopping illegal immigration through the southern border and you wanted to stereotype Latinos as violent “bad hombres,” what a gift Mara Salvatrucha – or...
View ArticleICE Is Arresting Teens Based on Bogus Claims, Says ACLU Lawsuit
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the Trump administration is falsely accusing immigrant teens of gang affiliations in a concerted effort to deport them....
View ArticleAs The Statues Fall, Where Do We Stand?; How MS-13 is Affecting Immigrant...
Dr. Christina Greer fills in for Brian today. You'll hear:Jamil Smith, journalist and Daily Beast contributor, and Emily Ngo, White House reporter for Newsday, discuss how the political scene is being...
View ArticleHow MS-13 Is Affecting Immigrant Communities
In a 3-part series in partnership with NPR, Sarah Gonzalez, WNYC's youth and families reporter, reports on MS-13 on Long Island — how the gang targets people for violence, why the Trump administration...
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From Incarceration to Graduation: One Young Man's Dreams of College Finally...
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. Almost two years ago, The Takeaway brought listeners the story of Alex Diaz, a high school dropout, former gang member, and convicted felon who...
View ArticleHeld for Months, Teens Accused of MS-13 Affiliation Start Returning to Long...
Over the summer on Long Island, immigration agents started picking up teens, known as "unaccompanied minors," and accusing them of being members of the international gang, MS-13. Local police made many...
View ArticleHow the Gang MS-13 is Being Used to Justify Immigration Policy
New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer discusses his recent piece in the January 1 issue, “The Teens Trapped Between a Gang and The Law.” He reports on the violent Salvadoran gang MS-13, whose...
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