UPDATE: This story has been updated to include new comments from the White House. After backlash following an announcement about refugee policy, the White House released a statement saying that by May 15, President Biden will raise the number of refugees allowed in the country this year. That number, which …
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Immigration officials on Wednesday raided a series of food-processing plants in Mississippi, arresting 680 suspected undocumented immigrants. It could be the biggest workplace immigration enforcement action in a single state, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s acting director Matthew Albence told the Associated Press.Children of the immigrants were left behind without …
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The murder of Mollie Tibbetts — the Brooklyn, Iowa, college student who went missing July 18th — is an undeniable tragedy, which is now being used by the Right Wing as anti-immigrant propaganda. Police say they recovered Tibbetts’s body from a cornfield on Tuesday, August 21st, after being led there …
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Donald Trump sent his attorney general out Tuesday to announce that the president will rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, in a transparent attempt to evade responsibility for his decision to end the popular and successful effort. DACA has allowed some 800,000 people who came to …
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