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Harris once opposed the border closure. As vice president, she supports it.
Originally Published in Politico Anita Kumar - May 12, 2021 Democrats, immigration advocates accuse Biden, Harris of keeping the border closed to limit immigration, not protect the country against the pandemic. A child glances back towards Mexico after crossing the border into the United States on April 14 in La Joya, Texas. | John Moore/Getty ...
White House Says Undocumented Students Can Receive Pandemic Aid
Originally Published in The New York Times Katie Rogers - May 11, 2021 A commencement ceremony at the University of Missouri this month.Credit...Jacob Moscovitch for The New York Times WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said on Tuesday that undocumented students could receive some of the $36 billion in emergency stimulus aid flowing to colleges, reversing ...
Detentions at southwestern border rose in April to highest level in at least 20 years.
Originally Published in The New York Times Zach Montague - May 11, 2021 Migrants from Venezuela waiting for transportation to a U.S. Border Patrol facility on Tuesday in Del Rio, Texas, after crossing the Rio Grande.Credit...James Breeden/Reuters U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained 178,622 people along the border with Mexico in April, the highest number ...
5 migrant children found alone along US-Mexico border, including an 11-month old
Originally Published in CNN Priscilla Alvarez and Ana Melgar Zuniga - May 11, 2021 Go Nakamura/Reuters Migrant families wait to be escorted by a local church group to the location where they turn themselves in to the U.S. Border Patrol after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States from Mexico, in Roma, Texas, U.S., ...
Op-Ed: Want to expand the economy and add jobs? Increase immigration
Originally Published in the Los Angeles Times Linda Chavez - May 11, 2021 Fifty people from more than 20 countries took the oath of citizenship in Oxford, Miss. in June 2018. (Bruce Newman / Oxford Eagle via Associated Press) April’s disappointing job numbers suggest the economy is not yet on a path to full recovery. ...
Why Support For Refugees Is Higher Than You Might Think In Parts Of ‘Trump Country’
Originally Published in NPR Kirk Siegler - May 11, 2021 Even amid the coronavirus pandemic, Idaho's unemployment rate has been hovering around 3%. In the capital city, Boise, for-hire signs are posted at grocery stores and restaurants — and at Pete Amador's home health care agency. His latest ad even offers a thousand-dollar signing bonus. ...
“Is Stephen Miller still in charge?”: Biden’s first immigration court appointees are all Trump picks
Originally Published in Salon Igor Derysh - May 11, 2021 “This is a list I would have expected out of Bill Barr or Jeff Sessions,” says former longtime immigration judge U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy in the East Room of the White House on May 10, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden ...
ICE Allowed COVID-19 Breakouts and Concealed Hospitalizations, a New Report Shows
Originally Published in Mother Jones Noah Lanard - May 11, 2021 Nearly 2,000 people in ICE detention are being monitored for active infections right now. A still from surveillance footage included in a Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General report from March about pandemic-era violations of detention standards at the La Palma immigration ...
Biden ends Trump ban on pandemic aid for undocumented college students
Originally Published in Politico Michael Stratford - May 11, 2021 Colleges must pass along roughly half of their Covid relief dollars directly to students in the form of emergency financial aid cash grants. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona finalized a regulation that allows colleges to distribute federal pandemic relief grants to all students, regardless of their ...
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