News From A Colorful Perspective
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) proposed a fee increase to access immigration records from the first half of the 20th century. The Washington Post reported that the fees to access citizenship and alien registration files, visa applications and other records about immigrants from the early 1900s will nearly…
The right-wing group “We Build the Wall” has been ordered by a judge to temporarily stop building a border wall in Texas on private land because it could endanger the National Butterfly Center in Mission. We Build the Wall is a crowdfunding campaign set up about a year ago to…
A massive contract for $400 million was awarded to Fisher Sand and Gravel, a contractor that President Donald Trump reportedly pushed the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers to hire, to build a span of new border wall through the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in Yuma County, Ariz. The Defense…
Scott Warren, a well-known and longtime aid worker who helps migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border, was found not guilty Wednesday of “harboring illegal immigrants.” Warren was facing a maximum of 10 years in prison for his humanitarian aid work. Warren had been charged with two harboring charges by the federal…
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of five freelance journalists against the Department of Homeland Security for allegedly following and interrogating them. All five are U.S. citizens and were working on a story about a group of migrants making their way to the border…
More foreigners are being held each day under the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) than ever before in history, but far fewer are being deported overall. The Washington Post reported that about 50,000 immigrants have been detained on any given day this year and, according to ICE data, nearly…
A report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) analyzed more than 900 emails leaked from Stephen Miller that he sent to the far-right website Breitbart. The emails reveal that Miller, a White House senior adviser for President Donald Trump, used white supremacist propaganda and literature to shape Breitbart’s articles….
Senior officials in the Trump administration want to put in webcams to livestream building parts of the border wall. The Washington Post reported that Jared Kushner and other senior White House officials are going against objections from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and senior U.S. Customs and Border Protection…
Despite President Donald Trump’s rhetoric that smugglers are dangerous cartel members, the majority of people convicted in federal court in 2018 were American men, according to data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Nearly 63% of smugglers were Americans, 75% were men and 58% had no prior criminal history. The use…
The Trump administration separated 1,556 more immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border than previously disclosed to the public, the American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday. Most of the children are very young, 12 years old and under, according to The Washington Post, including more than 200 considered…
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