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Unpacking Trump’s revival of the Alien Enemies Act | Identity Unveiled

Rebecca Peng March 27, 2025
When fundamental civil rights are violated, can America still claim to be the land of “justice for all?”
The Boston University International Students and Scholars Office. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Jan. 20 to revoke birthright citizenship, prompting lawsuits by Boston-based legal organizations and concerns about Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids. SIENA GLEASON/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Trump’s attempt to rescind birthright citizenship sparks worry, lawsuits, ICE raids

Truman Dickerson January 30, 2025
Three days after President Donald Trump was sworn into office, Kimberley Gilbert, an English immigrant who lives in Weymouth, began sending her eight-year-old daughter to school with her birth certificate.
Sophia Flissler/DFP STAFF

Gaming the System: Don’t let video games become the next military recruiting tactic

Nick Speranza April 22, 2021
The money and playerbase of esports are now being used to power the U.S. war machine.
Yvonne Tang/DFP STAFF

Let’s Talk About: Normalizing travelers overstepping their visas

Mayela Machribie Lumban Gaol April 21, 2021
It’s important to be respectful and adhere to your legal obligations to the country you’re visiting.
The Congressional Medal of Honor Society announced last Friday it plans to host its Patriot Award Dinner and convention in Boston this September. COURTESY OF LAURA BUCHTA VIA FLICKR

Boston to host Congressional Medal of Honor Convention

Samuele Petruccelli January 28, 2021
Slated for Sept. 7-11, the event will bring Medal of Honor recipients into the city, where they will visit with public school students, participate in events and then attend the dinner.
The importance of the Census remains despite the 2020 Census having closed already. ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH YOSHINAGA | DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Once in a decade: purpose and impacts of the US census

Rachel Do November 4, 2020

The 2020 census has closed, and the demographic data collected this year will shape the landscape of political representation in the country for another decade. The census, conducted by the U.S....

“Re-Birth” photographer Sheila Pree Bright’s multi-photograph installation hangs on a wall of Boston University’s Mugar Memorial Library. NICOLE BARTUCH / DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Photographer captures BU student voices in campus installation

Nicole Bartuch October 26, 2020

Four black-and-white portraits hang side by side on the wall of Mugar Memorial Library at Boston University, overlaid by a transparent projection of a slideshow of similar photos. The themes of freedom,...

Bearing Witness: We need to revise our history textbooks

Bearing Witness: We need to revise our history textbooks

Ariel Stein March 1, 2018
Are we instilling the idea in children that America is the greatest country in the world? Because that is absolutely not the case.

Maura Healey, William Galvin oppose citizenship question in census

Leonora Telford February 16, 2018

A letter sent Monday to the United States Department of Justice asking them not to inquire about citizenship status on the 2020 census was co-authored by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. The...

EDITORIAL: Virginia governor extends voting rights to felons, validates their humanity

EDITORIAL: Virginia governor extends voting rights to felons, validates their humanity

Editors April 26, 2016

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe issued an executive order that grants voting rights to all 200,000 convicted felons in the state, The New York Times reported. The state’s constitution previously barred...

EDITORIAL: Finland's migrant courses need to be broadened

EDITORIAL: Finland’s migrant courses need to be broadened

Editors January 25, 2016

Keeping migrants out of jail is so important that Finland is now offering them optional classes on Finnish law, BBC reported. The police- and ministry-backed courses are a way for new migrants to become informed...

Proposed immigration bill emphasizes academics, degrees

Daily Free Press Admin April 23, 2013

A new immigration reform bill proposed in Congress Tuesday may allow undocumented immigrant students to attain citizenship in an easier manner, officials said. However, some Boston University experts...

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