Adryana Aldeen hovered outside a Dallas polling station Tuesday with a sign that read "Pete Sessions for Congress" and a T-shirt that said "Latinas for Abbott" – promoting both the incumbent Republican U.S. congressman f ...
Daily Archives: November 7, 2018
How a Honduran Immigrant Named Bill Clinton Spent Election Day
A very different Bill Clinton—not the former president, but an 18-year-old Honduran whose full legal name is Bill Clinton Granados-Benitez—was due to appear via video conferencing in immigration court on Tuesday. ...
Stories for Kids About Heroic Young Refugees
I wasn’t equal to imagining what that journey was like. Yet here was this rosy-cheeked boy in a British school uniform, clearly a survivor, sitting in on my author event along with 150 other interested students. I tried ...
Motel 6 agrees to pay up to $7.6 million to settle claim it helped ICE target Latino guests
After a nationwide class-action lawsuit against Motel 6, the chain agreed to pay as much as $7.6 million to guests who said their private information was given to U.S. immigration agents, according to court records. ...
Oregon ‘Sanctuary State’ Policy Survives As Voters Reject Fearmongering
A majority of midterm voters supported keeping the state’s decades-old policy preventing local police from making immigration arrests. ...
Democratic Control In House Means Oversight Of Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — Finally
Democrats can’t force Trump to abandon his anti-immigrant stances. But they can provide a check on his policies. ...