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Biden admin reroutes billions in emergency stockpile, Covid funds to border crunch
Originally Published in Politico Adam Cancryn - May 15, 2021 The reshuffling illustrates the extraordinary financial toll that sheltering more than 20,000 unaccompanied children has taken on the department so far this year. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra speaks at the Long Beach Convention Center, Thursday, May 13, 2021, in Long Beach, Calif. ...
They Live in the U.S., but They’re Not Allowed to Come Home
Originally Published in The New York Times Aishvarya Kavi - May 17, 2021 Thousands of immigrants who live in the United States on temporary visas and traveled to India in recent weeks have been stranded there under the Biden administration’s travel ban. Yogesh Kumar and his daughter, Saanvi Kumar, outside their home in Hendersonville, Tenn. ...
Prison group sues to keep immigrant detention center open
Originally Published in The Washington Post Associated Press - May 17, 2021 SEATTLE — Private prison corporation GEO Group has sued Washington state, saying a new law mandating the closure of the immigrant detention center it operates in Tacoma would unconstitutionally subvert federal authority. The law enacted by the Legislature in March interferes with a ...
Arizona sheriff’s immigration patrols to cost public $200M
Originally Published in The Washington Post Jacques Billeaud - May 17, 2021 FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2019, file photo, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio poses for a portrait at his private office in Fountain Hills, Arizona. The taxpayer costs for the racial profiling lawsuit stemming from the immigration patrols launched a decade ...
U.S. Commits To Admitting About 250 Asylum-Seekers Per Day, Attorney Says
Originally Published in HuffPost Elliot Spagat - May 18, 2021 President Joe Biden has come under criticism from progressives for keeping asylum off-limits to many. SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration has agreed to let about 250 people a day through border crossings with Mexico to seek refuge in the United States, part of ...
Documents Show Trump Officials Used Secret Terrorism Unit to Question Lawyers at the Border
Originally Published in Mother Jones Dara Lind - May 17, 2021 In newly disclosed records, Trump officials cited conspiracies about Antifa to justify interrogating immigration lawyers with a special terrorism unit. A Customs and Border Protection Agent talks to a US activist.Herika Martinez/AFP/Getty This story was published originally by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses ...
President Biden, Thousands of Refugees Are Waiting On You
Originally Published in The New York Times Opinion by Melanie Nezer and Leon Rodriguez - May 17, 2021 Tigrayan refugees who fled the conflict in Ethiopia.Credit...Nariman El-Mofty/Associated Press Ms. Nezer is the senior vice president for public affairs at HIAS, a Jewish humanitarian organization that provides services to refugees and asylum seekers around the world. ...
Tucker Carlson’s cries about immigrants have a disturbing 19th-century parallel
Originally Published in The Washington Post Opinion by Zachary M. Shrag - May 17, 2021 The ‘great replacement theory’ is nothing new Fox host Tucker Carlson defended a racist theory that says White people are being replaced by people of color. (Richard Drew/AP) Zachary M. Schrag is a professor of history at George Mason University ...
Families separated by Trump receive therapy, but funds could dry up soon
Originally Published in the Los Angeles Times Brittny Mejia - May 14, 2021 Sandra Ortiz was separated from son Bryan Chavez over three years ago. She hugs him, and Yeritzel Chavez, right, during a reunion May 4 at the San Ysidro port of entry in San Diego. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune) ...
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