News From A Colorful Perspective
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reached a settlement agreement with Arizona-based company Upper Crust Bakery over a suit involving immigration status discrimination. Upper Crust Bakery, which provides baked goods for companies like Starbucks, Cotsco and Kroger’s discriminated against certain employees by requiring them to provide specific immigration documents to…
In Kansas City, Mo., a livestreamed video caught a violent attack on Florencio Millan-Vazquez. In the video, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents smashed the driver’s side window of Millan-Vazquez’s car, dragged him out and arrested him. According to NBC News, ICE officers in Kansas City boxed in Millan-Vazquez while…
Amazon Prime Day has now come to an end, but conversations and protests regarding the company’s labor practices have not. Amazon said it sold more than 175 million items during 2019’s 48-hour sale. The company said it would not release specific figures, but analysts have estimated it earned over $4…
Juan Sanchez, former leader of Southwest Key Programs, resigned earlier this year after it was publicly disclosed that he earned nearly $1.5 million in 2016 in compensation for detaining migrant children and teens for the U.S. government. Southwest Key Programs is a Texas-based nonprofit. But the $1.5 million was not…
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot wrote a letter to President Donald Trump on Sunday telling him exactly why, in no uncertain terms, Chicago police would not be assisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with the promised raids. In the letter, Lightfoot explained that last Friday she ordered the city police department “not…
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said on Sunday that 350 migrant children are in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody — down from 2,500 last month. “On June 1 we have 2,500 children in our custody; 1,200 had been with us over three days. Now that we have…
Yimi Alexis Balderramos-Torres was only 30 years old when he was found unresponsive in his cell in ICE custody on Sunday. The Honduran migrant soon died at a hospital near Houston in Humble, Texas. Balderramos-Torres was at the Houston Contract Detention Facility when he couldn’t be revived and was taken…
Sweeping nationwide raids across the country’s 10 major cities to round up undocumented immigrants and deport them were delayed last week – but they’re now a looming threat once again. “Unless we do something pretty miraculous,” President Donald Trump said during a news conference after the G-20 summit in Japan, the raids…
Acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Mark Morgan will become acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) commissioner on July 5. The announcement was made just hours after the resignation of John Sanders on Tuesday. CBP apprehends and first detains migrant parents and children crossing the U.S.-Mexico…
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will be raiding cities all across the country on Sunday. The raids, called the “family op,” will target around 2,000 families in as many as 10 U.S. cities, including Houston, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, New…
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