Focus Immigration

In collaboration with Freedom for Immigrants, the Immigrants Rights Clinic at NYU School of Law and the Migrant Justice Initiative at Yale University, WMSC brings you the story of a Chinese immigrant who as a US Lawful Permanent Resident spent 7 months in an ICE Detention Center on Bergen County. The show features interviews and […]

Morning Buzz senior producer Frankie Perez is a third generation Cuban-American. His grandparents traveled to the US from Cuba in 1969 with five children. Frankie’s mother was born in the United States. and grew up in a Cuban dominated area in West New York, New Jersey.

Program Director, Amanda Siess, is a second generation immigrant. Her mother and father immigrated to the United States from Poland escaping communism. Here is her family’s immigration story.

WMSC FM’s General Manager hails all the way from Buenos Aires, Argentina. A first generation Immigrant, Poland was the recipient of the Diversity Visa Lottery also known as the green card lottery. The DV Lottery is a United States government lottery program for receiving a United States Permanent Resident Card established in the Immigration Act […]

By: Sarah Adewolu TEXAS – After being held in custody at a rural Texas detention center by ICE officers, 12 infants have been released. They were let go after allegedly dealing with unsanitary water, as well as lack of baby food and immediate medical attention. The South Texas Residential Center, in Dilley, was a confinement […]

By Louis Biondolillo and AJ Melillo WASHINGTON- President Donald J. Trump has declared a National Emergency and signed an Immigration bill to prevent a government shutdown on Friday morning. Congress passed a bill regarding immigration on Thursday that would prevent the government from going into the second partial shutdown in three weeks on Friday, February 15th. […]