Thousands of veterans with “less-than-honorable” discharges missing out on government benefits; facing unnecessary challenges in employment. Being dishonorably discharged from the military can wreak havoc on a veteran’s career. Whether it was the result of alcohol or drug abuse, insubordination, fighting or being LGBTQ+ or disabled (areas that were not…
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News Roundup: Gender Equality, a Lawsuit Against ICE, and More TV Diversity
Check out our news roundup of diversity and inclusion updates and insights from across the U.S.: Research: Most Americans Believe There’s Still Work to be Done for Gender Equality One hundred years after women fought for and won the right to vote, about 50% of Americans say the victory has…
Citizenship and Immigration Services Proposes Fee Increase to Access Genealogy Records
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…
‘We Build the Wall’ Group Ordered by Judge to Stop Building in Texas
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…
$400 Million Border Wall Contract Awarded to Contractor Favored by Trump
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…
Aid Worker Scott Warren Found Not Guilty of Harboring Migrants in Arizona
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…
ACLU Files Lawsuit Against DHS on Behalf of Journalists for Tracking, Interrogating Them
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…
Trump Administration Detaining More Immigrants, Deporting Fewer than Obama
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…
Stephen Miller, the Man Behind Trump’s Immigration Agenda, Promoted White Nationalism and Racism: Report
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….
Trump Administration Plans to Livestream Building of Border Wall
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…