News From A Colorful Perspective
Attorney General William Barris trying to increase his power and authority over deciding whether or not to deport immigrants with criminal convictions. On Friday, the people fought back. More than 40 elected state and local prosecutors on Fridaychallenged Barr’s changes to his amount of power and influence. Barr wants to…
In Florida, the Homestead migrant child detention camp that has housed about 14,300 undocumented children in total since March 2018,is emptying out. Health and Human Services (HHS) told AP News that all children who had been at the facility are now with family members or at smaller state-licensed centers. The…
After the El Paso, Tx. shooting that claimed the lives of 20 people and injured dozens of others in a Wal-Mart in the border city, some of those injured have been driving themselves home instead of going to the hospital out of fear of ICE agents. “This is a concern,”…
Migrants continue to die while in U.S. custody. A 32-year-old man from El Salvador died Thursday morning just hours after being apprehended by Border Patrol agents, CNN reports. The unnamed migrant “fell into medical distress” while being processed at the Lordsburg Border Patrol Station, more than two hours away from…
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden from Oregon was visiting a migrant shelter on Saturday at the U.S.-Mexico border when he noticed a pregnant Mexican woman and her family. The woman was 38 weeks pregnant and suffering from preeclampsia and other complications. Wyden and his staff escorted the woman and her family…
On Wednesday, Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost testified in front of the House Appropriations subcommittee and claimed that she didn’t realize the racist Facebook group that she was in was so racist. She was involved in the group to evaluate “how I am representing my workforce,” she told lawmakers at a hearing about…
On Friday night, the Supreme Court was split on whether or not to allow the Trump administration to use $2.5 billion in Pentagon funds to build part of the president’s wall along the southern border. The Supreme Court’s conservatives won out and set aside a lower-court ruling for the Sierra…
In another attempt to stop only the immigrants that he doesn’t like from entering the country, the president and his minions in the administration instated a new policy on July 16 blocking Central Americans and other migrants from requesting asylum at the southern border unless they had applied for asylum…
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…
The Carrizo Springs detention center in Texas that was opened in response to the squalid conditions in which children were being detained by the Border Patrol is closing as early as this week after less than a month being open. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) opened the…
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