Topic: Immigrants and Refugees
Velshi Asks What is Trump Doing With Pregnant Teen Migrants in Texas?
The MS NOW host and Citizen board member talks with Jonathan White, former director of a federal unaccompanied child program, about a Texas facility reportedly flagged for inadequate medical care where pregnant teen migrants are being sent
By Ali Velshi
How to Help Immigrants
Immigrants in the United States — and Philadelphia — are in perilous times.
By Diemmy Dang, Bayleh Alexander and Lauren McCutcheon
Ali Velshi Explains The Surveillance Tools Ice is Using
The MS NOW host and Citizen board member talks with technology journalist Jacob Ward about how ICE is tracking us and the threat that represents to our free speech and due process
By Ali Velshi
Ali Velshi On Boycotting The Corporations Enabling ICE
The MS NOW host and Citizen board member covers how businesses support ICE and what Americans can do to hold them accountable with the power of economic withdrawal
By Ali Velshi
Even Your Kids Know What ICE Is Doing Is Wrong
Violence against immigrants and their supporters has come to our neighborhoods. Two young Welcoming Center workers have found hope in the next generation of Americans
By Louise Bittout and Sofian Zapf
Ali Velshi on Violence Between the State and its Citizenry
The MS NOW host and Citizen board member sits down with historian Jon Meacham for an analysis of activism and state violence in this moment in American history
By Ali Velshi
What’s Rochelle Bilal Smoking?
Progressives cheered, but the Sheriff’s viral press conference about Trump and ICE was a spectacle Philly can ill afford on the national stage right now
By Larry Platt
Ali Velshi and the King Family On Making The World One In Brotherhood
The MS NOW host and Citizen board member talks with Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King about Dr. King's legacy, and the soul of America
By Ali Velshi
Breaking Bread For Citizenship
The Welcoming Center’s 2026 dinner series will bring immigrants and native-born Philadelphians together to explore the themes of neighborliness and good citizenship while bonding over the most human of activities: eating
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Ali Velshi Talks Trump’s Attack on Legal Immigration
The MS NOW host and Citizen board member reports that naturalization ceremonies across the country are being canceled at the last minute.
By Ali Velshi