English El Semanario (CO, NM) To Republicans Like Abbott or Desantis, Migrants Seem to Be Sub-Human By Maribel Hastings and David Torres July 27, 2023 The New York Times Labor Department Decries Surge in Exploited Migrant Children By Hannah Dreier July 27, 2023 NBC News Labor Department says number...
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93-year-old labor legend and United Farm Workers (UFW) cofounder Dolores Huerta was among “thirst strikers” at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, withholding from water all day to highlight the urgent need to enact federal heat protections for outdoor workers like essential farmworkers. Texas Rep. Greg Casar led the strike,...
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English San Francisco Chronicle Federal judge rejects Biden administration restrictions on asylum seekers entering U.S. from Mexico By Bob Egelko July 25, 2023 Common Dreams In Victory for Migrant Rights, US Court Blocks ‘Cruel’ Biden Asylum Restrictions By Julia Conley July 25, 2023 CNN Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas...
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The Biden administration has made good on its threat to sue Texas over the dangerous and likely unlawful barrier installed in the Rio Grande as part of Republican Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star scheme. The Justice Department on Monday filed a complaint stating that officials placed the floating buoys...
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During an interview with Margaret Brennan on CBS’s Face the Nation this past weekend, Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales (TX-23) surprisingly gave the Biden administration credit for the plummeting number of migrants that have been trying to cross between ports of entry since the end of Title 42 on May...
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English Common Dreams The Dehumanizing Cruelty at the Texas Border Is Part of a Larger GOP Pattern By Vanessa Cárdenas July 25, 2023 Law360 Top Immigration Policy Developments In 2023: Midyear Review By https://www.law360.com/immigration/articles/1703120?nl_pk=dea74252-ba1e-4d32-9491-909d4942ab27&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=immigration&utm_content=2023-07-25&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0# July 24, 2023 Truthout Abbott Says He’ll Defy Fed Order to Remove Barbed Wire Barriers...
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Farmworkers and advocates in Florida are mourning the loss of Efrain López García, a Homestead farmworker who died while laboring in extreme heat earlier this month. López García was harvesting a tropical fruit called longan when he told his coworkers that he wasn’t feeling well. “The workers weren’t sure...
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English The Atlantic The GOP’s Lurch Toward Extremism Comes for the Border By Ronald Brownstein July 22, 2023 Associated Press Texas is using disaster declarations to install buoys and razor wire on the US-Mexico border By Valerie Gonzalez and Acacia Coronado July 24, 2023 The Wall Street Journal Texas...
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S.B.1718, Passed By State Republicans To Aid Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ 2024 Presidential Aspirations, Targets Families And Workers Integral To Florida’s Economy A coalition of immigrant and civil rights organizations have launched a federal lawsuit against Florida’s anti-immigrant S.B. 1718 law, suing Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and other...
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English NBC News DOJ ‘to assess’ treatment of migrants at the border described as ‘inhumane’ by Texas trooper By Nicole Acevedo July 20, 2023 CBS News Official concedes 8-year-old who died in U.S. custody could have been saved as devastated family recalls final days By Camilo Montoya-Galvez July 20,...
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