immigration

June 3, 2019

A week in ‘Baby Jail’

As a former undocumented immigrant, I felt it was my duty to help.


March 1, 2016

When compassion was policy

With five children and a sixth on the way, the Nguyen family fled Vietnam. Washington Governor Dan Evans opened the door to a life the family never would have imagined.


March 1, 2010

Garbage tells a story

Lecturer Jason De Leon collects discarded items to better understand what's happening at the southern border of the United States.


December 1, 2008

Escape from Shanghai

Going off to college can be difficult, even traumatic—leaving home for the first time, moving to an unfamiliar town, living with strangers. For Julia Lin, ’65, though, it required assuming a false identity, dodging bombs and surviving a pirate attack.