Originally Published in Time Jasmine Aguilera - December 4, 2020 Volunteers from pro-immigration group Families Belong Together build and fill a chainlink cage with about 600 teddy bears 'representing t ...
Daily Archives: December 5, 2020
A Trump Immigration Policy Is Leaving Families Hungry
Originally Published in The New York Times Nolan Kanno-Youngs - December 4, 2020 The “public charge” rule was supposed to ensure that green cards go only to self-sufficient immigrants, but in the pandemic, it is dr ...
Judge Orders Government to Fully Reinstate DACA Program
Originally Published in The New York Times Caitlin Dickerson and Michael D. Shear Up to 300,000 additional undocumented immigrants could be allowed to apply for protection from deportation under a new court ruling. ...
More than 1,000 migrant children in US government custody have tested positive for Covid-19
Originally Published in CNN Priscilla Alvarez - December 4, 2020 (CNN) More than 1,000 migrant children in US government custody have tested positive for coronavirus since March, according to the federal agency cha ...
Justice Dept. Suit Says Facebook Discriminates Against U.S. Workers
Originally Published in The New York Times Cecilia Kang and Mike Isaac - December 3, 2020 The complaint, which targets the company’s hiring of immigrants on temporary visas, opens a new front in Washington’s battle ...
Biden urged to change immigration policy to send more health workers to Covid hot spots
Originally Published in Politico Tucker Doherty - December 3, 2020 Advocates think linking health-worker shortages with immigration policy will resonate with the incoming administration. ...
Biden’s Plan to Reunite Immigrant Families Is a Mystery for Now
Originally Published in the Daily Beast Scott Bixby - December 3, 2020 “We will ultimately find these families, but only the administration can allow the families to return to the United States, and provide them le ...
IMMIGRANTS DETAINED BY ICE SAY THEY WERE PUNISHED FOR REQUESTING COVID-19 TESTS
Originally Published in The Intercept Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven - December 3, 2020 When detainees at an Alabama jail got sick — or simply asked to be tested — they were put in solitary confinement. ...
Census delay could scuttle Trump’s plans to exclude immigrants
Originally Published in Politico Zach Montellaro and Daniel Lippman - December 2, 2020 Apportionment data from the 2020 census, which determines how many House seats each state will get for the next dec ...
The Trump Administration Just Made the Citizenship Test Harder. How Would You Do?
Originally Published in The New York Times Clinton Cargill - December 3, 2020 Matt Barnard/Tulsa World, via Associated Press The Trump administration adopted changes to the citizenship test that coul ...