immigration
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Undocumented Black Immigrants May Fare Worse Without DACA Protections
Tobore Oweh knows the next six months of her life will be stressful after Donald Trump’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program Tuesday. She is one of 800,000 people covered under the Obama-era policy who fears the worst if Congress doesn’t come together to resolve the crisis Trump created. She and…
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Finally, a White House Press Conference Went Completely Off the Rails, and It Should’ve Happened Long Ago
The press does not work for the White House. While they are invited to be members of the White House press corps, their job is to challenge the White House when things sound batshit crazy. While news outlets have been ambitious in working behind the scenes to debunk many of the asinine comments coming from…
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8 Dead, 30 More Hospitalized in Texas ‘Hot Truck’ Smuggling Operation
Emergency responders found eight people dead in the back of a semitrailer at a Walmart in San Antonio early Sunday morning, the victims of what authorities say looks to be a human trafficking operation gone horribly wrong. CNN reports that a man from the truck went into the Walmart to ask for water and that…
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Father Pleads With Trump to Let Him Enter the US to Attend Slain 11-Year-Old Daughter’s Funeral
Eleven-year-old AbbieGail Smith was killed in New Jersey last week in a tragedy that has shocked her entire family. Now the little girl’s grieving father and older sister, both of whom reside in Jamaica, are pleading with President Donald Trump to allow them into the U.S. to attend the little girl’s funeral this coming Monday.…
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Federal Court Rules Undocumented Minors Cannot Be ‘Contained’ Without a Hearing
A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously Wednesday that undocumented minors who enter the country without permission must be given a hearing to determine whether they can be released. The judges ruled that immigration authorities are bound by a 1997 settlement in the case Flores v. Janet Reno, which said…
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ICE Picks Up Teen Hours Before His Senior Prom, Days Before His High School Graduation
Hours before his senior prom was set to begin, Diego Ismael Puma Macancela hid in a bedroom closet at his cousin’s home as immigration officers who had come looking for him stood outside the apartment banging on the door and threatening to break it down if Puma Macancela did not come out. Worried that agents…
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Accident Victim Questioned About Immigration Status Before Getting Help, Later Detained by Border Patrol
A man in Key West, Fla., was hit by a car as he was riding his bicycle to work. The police officer who responded to the scene questioned the accident victim about his immigration status before offering medical assistance, and the entire exchange was captured on video by the officer’s body camera. Marcos Antonio Huete,…
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Woman Goes on Racist Rant in Manassas, Va., Store, Calls Latino Man a ‘Spic’
Updated Tuesday, May 23, 2017, 12 p.m. EDT: The woman who went on a racist rant in a Manassas, Va., Sprint store has been identified as Tiffany Cormier, The Root has confirmed from a source reached through Fusion. Cormier is married to a Latino man and works for American Airlines in its payroll department and…
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Conservative Outlets, White House Pushed Hispanic-Teen Rape Allegations—Which Were Then Discredited
‘Dozens and Dozens of Segments on FOX News’ Sinclair Buys Tribune Media in Epic Merger Grambling J-Program Denied Re-Accreditation Medill Not Applying for Re-Accreditation Comedian Goes Where Many of Us Fear to Tread Chinese Exclusion Act Commemorated ‘America’s Growing News Deserts’ South Sudan Suspends Al Jazeera Bureau Short Takes The White House was questioned sharply…
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Trump Can’t Find Money for the Wall. How About for Some Schools?
One of President Donald Trump’s most egregious lies during campaign 2016 was that he would build a wall protecting America from “illegal immigration,” then would get the Mexican government to pay for it. It’s not clear if Trump was watching Fox News, Pacific Rim or Attack on Titan when he came up with the wall…