News From A Colorful Perspective
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…
In another attempt to crack down on legal immigration, President Donald Trump will try to begin reinforcing a 23-year-old law that requires sponsors of green card holders to reimburse the government for welfare benefits. Trump approved a memorandum on Thursday to make sure two provisions that were signed into law…
According to local officials in South Florida on Thursday, President Trump has decided to relocate thousands of displaced migrants from overcrowded detention centers and camps along the U.S. border to Broward and Palm Beach counties. The alarming number of immigrants expected to come to Southern Florida has caused concern for…
A pilot program DNA-testing immigrants at the Southern border will start next week and run for two to three days. Both ICE and Customs and Border Protection will be involved in the pilot. Allegedly, it is a new effort to crack down on fraud, Homeland Security officials said on Wednesday….
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday will order the removal of roughly 360 National Guard members from California’s southern boundary with Mexico. “This is our answer to the White House: No more division, xenophobia or nativism.” Newsom called the president’s border wishes a “manufactured crisis” and “political theater.” He’s redirecting troops…
A new Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data finds that the “post-Millennial” generation, which are those born after 1996, “is already the most racially and ethnically diverse generation, as a bare majority of 6-to 21-year-olds (52%) are non-Hispanic whites.” The only population of youth that has grown substantially…
For Halloween, several teachers at Middleton Elementary School in Canyon County, Idaho, wore red, white and blue, and stood behind a fake brick wall with “Make America Great Again” written on it. Meanwhile, another group wore sombreros, mustaches, and held maracas. Initially posted on the school’s Facebook page, outrage among…
After a report was released detailing racist incidents in the Haverford, Pa., school district and town, leadership in one of the most affluent regions in the country, with a predominantly white population, decided that diversity is not a priority. Maureen Reusche, the superintendent of the Haverford Township school district said…
Tarana Burke is reflecting on the movement she created more than 12 years ago, but it’s only been one year since its historic rise worldwide. It has led to women speaking out very publicly against assault. And now that it’s been endorsed by the upper echelons of white women, we…
Two women casually conversing in a supermarket in Rifle, Colo., get rudely interrupted by a woman growing increasingly irate and aggressive. Their offense: Living while Latina and speaking in Spanish in front of a white woman. Linda Dwire, a 64-year-old woman who thinks she’s an officer of the language police,…
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