Immigration
Jun 20 2009, Chad

At night, Aysar Jaber listens to her 11-year-old son scream in his sleep in the family’s Phoenix, Ariz., apartment, plagued by nightmares about violence in his native Iraq. Jaber has nighmares of her own. Job applications have gone unanswered....

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Christoper Estrada wears a mask with the Mexican flag as he is surrounded by American flags during an immigration rally in San Jose, Calif., Friday, May 1, 2009.