The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom: For the past couple of weeks, a diverse group of teens and young adults has been on a bus trip around the country. Their goal: to foster a better understanding of others and to build support for immigrants’ rights and racial justice.

  Raymond and the Dream Riders in the Georgia state capital If there is a kid who has been in America since he was a child and didn’t even know he was an undocumented immigrant until he came of age…

Emaciated children and beggars, a street full of noise, the cacophony of humans and machines, a vendor hurriedly moving his cart full of produce across a busy road.

My relationship with the U.S. is like having a crush on a girl who does not like me back. I would like to stay here to explore, grow, work, and live, but this place wants me to do none of…

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Yamilex Rustrian, 7, crossed the dessert with her sister to get to this country; she was also kidnapped for 10 days. “I have lived always in fear of being picked up. When I received DACA, I was able to get a driver’s license, go to school and work to help my family. I no longer live in the shadows, but my parents remain in limbo because politics keeps playing with their lives.”