The Krome North Processing Center, said to have deplorable conditions, is under review after a Haitian immigrant died while in ICE custody.
Bahamian residents seeking to evacuate the island devastated by Hurricane Dorian were denied entry into the United States.
After Trump's comments about immigrants being from sh*thole countries, Don Lemon went IN. Saying what most of us have known for a while, the President of the United States is racist.
She also explained why things are "all good" with Swizz's ex-wife, Mashonda.
(Washington Examiner) — An illegal immigrant injured while working can receive workers’ compensation, the District’s highest court has ruled. Palemon Gonzales was working at a D.C. bar as a busboy on June 30, 2005, when a customer threw a bottle that hit Gonzales in the right eye, blinding him. Gonzales, an illegal immigrant, had to […]
(AJC) — Metro Atlanta continues to draw new foreign born residents despite the economic downturn, which sets it apart from many other regions around the country. Atlanta’s immigrant population grew by 42,000 people, or 6 percent, from 2007 to 2009. That steady increase was felt in many ways, both good and bad: providing low-cost labor […]
(Washington Post) — Whenever Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez(D-Ill.) and other immigrant-rights advocates asked President Obama how a Democratic administration could preside over the greatest number of deportations in any two-year period in the nation’s history, Obama’s answer was always the same. Deporting almost 800,000 illegal immigrants might antagonize some Democrats and Latino voters, Obama’s skeptical supporters said the […]
(New York Times) — The Obama administration has been quietly moving to resume deportations of Haitians for the first time since the earthquake last January. But in New York’s Haitian diaspora, the reaction has been far from muted, including frustration and fear among immigrants and anger from their advocates, who say that an influx of […]
(AJC) — When Deng-Athoi Galuak walked into the refugee camp in Ethiopia, he was a thinned-out, raggedy kid who had survived the bombing of his village, three months of walking, two bouts of malaria, starvation and predation by wolves and lions. Days ago, thanks to some newly available records, Galuak saw, for the first time, […]
(AJC) — A federal fingerprint-sharing program aimed at deporting criminal illegal immigrants will be operating across all of metro Atlanta by the end of September, according to federal records obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Forsyth County’s jail is set to join the “Secure Communities” program Dec. 14. Forty-six other Georgia counties — including some of […]
(The New York Times) — “The rebels came in one night at 2 a.m.; they started shooting and killing people,” said Michael Kallon, 55, a survivor of rebel raids in Liberia in 1986. “There were hordes of them, and I fled to Guinea.” After a stint working for the Pan-African Writers’ Association in Guinea in […]
(New York Times) — Activists across the country rallied on Tuesday in a day of support for the Dream Act, the long-languishing bill that would open a path to legalization for young people and may finally come up for a vote in the next several days. And even though the votes of most of the […]