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ICE to End the Use of Georgia Facility at Center of Hysterectomy Allegations
Originally Published in Time Jasmine Aguilera - May 20, 2021 Protesters gather at a news conference in Atlanta, decrying conditions at Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga., Sept. 15, 2020. Jeff Amy—AP The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Thursday morning that it will end its use of two facilities, including the Irwin County Detention ...
Shelters From Reynosa to Tijuana Are at Capacity and Scrambling for Resources as the U.S. Continues to Expel Migrants
Originally Published in Time Jasmine Aguilera - May 20, 2021 A migrant boy walks amid tents at the Juventud 2000 migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, on December 17, 2020. Guillermo Arias—AFP/Getty Images It’s bustling and noisy inside Iglesia Embajadores de Jesus (Ambassadors of Jesus Church) on a Saturday in late April. Nestled in the remote hills ...
ICE DETENTION CENTER SHUTTERED FOLLOWING REPEATED ALLEGATIONS OF MEDICAL MISCONDUCT
Originally Published in The Intercept José Olivares and John Washington - May 20, 2021 Immigrant women held at the private prison alleged a pattern of medical procedures, including hysterectomies, without proper consent. THE DEPARTMENT OF Homeland Security announced on Thursday the agency will be shutting down the controversial immigration prison in Georgia where dozens of ...
The World Might Be Running Low on Americans
Originally Published in The New York Times Opinion by Farhad Manjoo - May 20, 2021 Credit...Timothy A. Clary/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The world has been stricken by scarcity. Our post-pandemic pantry has run bare of gasoline, lumber, microchips, chicken wings, ketchup packets, cat food, used cars and Chick-fil-A sauce. Like the Great Toilet Paper ...
California City Apologizes for Treatment of Early Chinese Immigrants
Originally Published in The New York Times Johnny Diaz - May 20, 2021 The mayor of Antioch, Calif., said the city was going to designate the site of its former Chinatown as a historic district. Mayor Lamar Thorpe, right, and Andrew Li, president of the Contra Costa community college board, holding a proclamation apologizing for ...
ICE to stop detaining immigrants at two county jails under federal investigation
Originally Published in The Washington Post Maria Sacchetti - May 20, 2021 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents question and detain suspected undocumented immigrants in Charlotte on Jan. 8, 2020. (Eamon Queeney for The Washington Post) The Biden administration has decided to stop detaining immigrants in a pair of county jails facing federal probes in Georgia ...
Mazie Hirono’s journey from poor immigrant to U.S. senator
Originally Published in The Washington Post Linda Killian - May 21, 2021 From left, Democratic Sens. Tammy Duckworth (Ill.), Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Mazie Hirono (Hawaii) head to a news conference on Capitol Hill after the Senate passed the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act on April 22. (Reuters/Erin Scott) Linda Killian, a ...
Parents of 391 migrant children separated at border under Trump still have not been found, court filing says
Originally Published in CNN Priscilla Alvarez - May 19, 2021 (CNN) Attorneys are still trying to reach the parents of 391 migrant children who had been separated at the US-Mexico border under the Trump administration, down from 445 last month, according to a federal court filing Wednesday. The filing from the Justice Department and the American ...
Why America Needs Skilled Immigrants
Originally Published in The National Review David H. McCormick and James M. Cunningham - May 13, 2021 By lighting a beacon for talent, we will advance our economic and geostrategic interests Only in America would portraits of legendary diplomats appear alongside those of émigrés from Afghanistan, Russia, and Egypt, all painted by a former president. ...
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