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Immigrants Launch Hunger Strike in Texas Detention Center
By Priscila Mosqueda, Texas Observer Immigrants in a for-profit detention center in Conroe are refusing to eat to protest conditions at the facility. The protests in Texas follow a similar hunger […]
Focusing U.S. Immigration Detention Costs
By Ali Noorani, Reuters There was much controversy last week about federal officials releasing hundreds of immigrants from detention centers ahead of the looming budget cuts. But the real issue […]
Feds Free Hundreds From Immigration Detention
By Alan Gomez, USA Today Republicans on Tuesday denounced the release of hundreds of illegal immigrants from federal detention centers as an attempt to frighten Americans into supporting President Obama’s […]
Today’s Latino News Headlines – July, 18, 2018
U.S. Latino news headlines, curated daily by NewsTaco. ‘It’s hypocritical’: Chicago Latino Caucus to return donation from private immigrant detention company – Chicago Tribune The Chicago City Council Latino Caucus […]
‘How crazy is it that undocumented people are paying for their own deportation?’
April 12, 2017 PRI’s The World Displayed with permission from GlobalPost Many immigrants without legal status pay taxes. Lots of taxes.[tweet_dis] Last year, undocumented workers handed over $26.3 billion in […]
Lives in Limbo
*From the article: “How activism, art and architecture are bringing the shadowy immigrant detention system into clearer view.” VL By Michael Agresta, New America Media (16 minute read) They hide in […]
There’s one main difference between Chinese and Mexican immigrants who come to the US illegally
*First, an explanation. We don’t use the term illegal on our site, but the headline is native to the Quartz publication, so in this instance we kept it. Second, this […]
U.S. authorities begin raids, taking 121 illegal immigrants into custody over the weekend
*This was big news over the weekend when the 121 were rounded-up, now it’s become a back page story. What’s missing in the number is how many of the deported […]
U.S. plans raids to deport families who surged across border
*The Obama administration has been discussing this for several months, and there’s a lot of controversy over it within the administration. The pressure on DHS is to respond to a […]
Five Syrian asylum seekers surrender at Texas border crossing
*This is to set the record straight, because among the things that most hurt us is our own easy belief in lies, misinformation and conjecture that thrives on social media. […]