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In video footage that has gone viral, children waiting to cross into the U.S. from Mexico were seen having numbers written on their arms. The scene was reminiscent of Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Nazi Germany during World War II where Jews, Blacks, homosexuals, and other people were tattooed with…
A Mexican man being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody has died, seemingly by suicide, ICE announced Thursday. He is the eighth person to die in ICE’s custody this year. Efrain De La Rosa, 40, was pronounced dead at a Georgia hospital late on July 12, ICE said…
President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday saying migrant families will no longer be separated at the border. But the order continues spreading the lie that Trump was simply enforcing the law by separating families. Also absent from Trump’s order is what he plans to do about the 2,342…
Hilton(No. 30 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) has announced plans to welcome the luxury Waldorf Astoria Cancun and the all-inclusive Hilton Cancun resort to the global hospitality company’s growing portfolio in Mexico. Developed by Parks Hospitality and set to open in 2021, the neighboring properties will feature distinct…
Abbott (No. 10 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) and its foundation, the Abbott Fund, are providing $2 million in additional grants and products to support relief efforts and help families recover from Hurricane Maria in the Caribbean, and the earthquake in Central Mexico. This builds on earlier aid…
President Donald Trump’s lies and bombastic rhetoric have once again been brought to light this time, in the form of a phone call with Mexico’s president, Enrique Pea Nieto. The Washington Post obtained transcripts of two phone calls the president took: one between himself and Nieto, and another with Australian…
A popular Cinco de Mayo festival in Philadelphia has been cancelled due to increasing fears of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids. El Carnaval de Puebla has taken place in South Philadelphia in late April or early May for the past 10 years and is the city’s largest Cinco de…
A Massachusetts sheriff proposed that inmates from his county jail would be the perfect candidates to build President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed wall an idea that has been likened to “modern-day slave labor.” Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson, a Republican, said last week during his inaugural ceremony, “I can think of…
By Sheryl Estrada Photos of Jasmine Vidal and her boyfriend taken from the cellphone video of their encounter with Sgt. Roy Bordamonte. A cellphone video recording a police sergeant hurling racial insults at Latino teens has surfaced, causing protests and a petition to get him fired. In September, Jasmine Vidal…
