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Far Fewer Young Migrants Are In Border Patrol Custody, DHS Secretary Says
Originally Published in NPR Claudia Grisales - May 13, 2021 Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies Thursday at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on the department's actions to address unaccompanied migrant children. Graeme Jennings/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told senators on Thursday that in the midst of...
Immigration experts say GOP senators questioned DHS secretary with misleading chart
Originally Published in The Hill Rafael Bernal and Rebecca Beitsch - May 13, 2021 © Getty Images Immigration experts on Thursday said that a chart used by two Republican senators during a hearing on migrant interactions misrepresented the number of immigrants detained at the border between the spring of 2020 and early 2021. The experts...
‘Is this not a massive failure?’ The latest data from the border draws mixed reactions on the Hill.
Originally Published in The New York Times Eileen Sullivan - May 13, 2021 Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas testifying on Thursday as Democrats and Republicans sparred over who is to blame for the current problems on the southern border. Credit...Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times A decrease in migrant children who arrived alone...
Uncovering the History of America’s First Koreatown
Originally Published in The New York Times Jill Cowan - May 14, 2021 Friday: A Korean-American professor discusses the most gratifying research of his career, into Riverside’s Pachappa Camp. Credit...University of Southern California, Korean American Digital Archive Good morning. It was 1904 when Ahn Chang-Ho, the revered Korean independence activist and Korean immigrant leader, left...
Many Unvaccinated Latinos in the U.S. Want the Shot, New Survey Finds
Originally Published in The New York Times Jan Hoffman - May 13, 2021 Issues of access and fears of employment and immigration consequences have kept their Covid vaccination rates low, the findings suggest. Anna Aguilar, a member of the Guatemalan Maya community in Lake Worth, Fla., received a Covid vaccine last month.Credit...Saul Martinez for The...
Biden meets DACA recipients in immigration overhaul push
Originally Published in The Washington Post Aamer Madhani - May 14, 2021 President Joe Biden met Friday with six immigrants who benefited from an Obama-era policy that protected those brought to the U.S. illegally as children. The president is trying to turn attention toward overhauling the nation’s immigration laws, but it’s an issue he has...
The Technology 202: Google and other tech companies defend work visas for spouses of high-tech immigrants
Originally Published in The Washington Post Cat Zakrzewski - May 14, 2021 with Aaron Schaffer Major tech companies are defending a visa program that allows spouses of high skilled immigrants to work inside the United States. Google led more than two dozen companies and organizations in signing an amicus brief aimed at protecting a key work...
Dallas and San Antonio sites used to house migrant children set to close within weeks
Originally Published in CNN Priscilla Alvarez - May 13, 2021 The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center (CNN) Two large sites in Texas used to shelter unaccompanied migrant children amid the influx in arrivals earlier this year will close by early June, the Department of Health and Human Services Department confirmed, marking among the first closures as...
Man arrested for hurling slurs, assaulting Asian worker: “I don’t want coronavirus”
Originally Published in Newsweek Alexandra Hutzler - May 13, 2021 Authorities in Virginia have arrested a suspect who allegedly used anti-Asian racial slurs against two restaurant employees before pushing one of them to the ground, all while skipping out on his bill. Jordon Bevan, 28, has been taken into custody and charged with defrauding an...
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