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Transgender woman on migrant caravan: 'I wouldn’t last a day if I returned to Honduras'
By Gustavo Solis ~ LA Times ~ May 7, 2018 Of the 225 asylum seekers escaping from places like Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, the dozen or so members of the transgender community who arrived in Tijuana feel they are targeted wherever they go. These women say they have survived ... -
Three-eyed fish and two-headed turtles? The stench of this river spanning U.S.-Mexico border is legendary
By Brittny Mejia ~ LA Times ~ May 2, 2018 The river is so foul that rumors swirl about two-headed turtles and three-eyed fish. If you fall in, locals joke, you might sprout a third arm. So go the stories about the New River, whose putrid green water runs like ... -
Donald Trump's Border Wall Is Already a Reality in This Texas Town
By Nash Jenkins ~ Time ~ May 1, 2018 For the residents of La Lomita, President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall is already here. At first glance, this lower-middle class neighborhood is a standard Texan suburban enclave: residents grill chicken on their front patios while their children shoot hoops in the driveways; ... -
Texas and six other states sue Trump administration to force an end to DACA
By Washington Post ~ May 2, 2018 Texas and six other states are suing the Trump administration over its failure to terminate an Obama-era program that provides work permits to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. The lawsuit signals growing GOP frustration with ... -
Trump administration ending temporary status for Hondurans, the latest immigrant group to have protections revoked
By Joseph Tanfani and Tracy Wilkinson ~ LA Times ~ May 4, 2018 The Trump administration says it will strip legal protections for 86,000 Hondurans who live in the U.S., the latest group of longtime undocumented residents who now face the prospect of deportation back to their troubled home countries. ... -
Cancela Washington protección a 57 mil migrantes hondureños
By AP y AFP ~ La Jornada ~ 5 de Mayo 2018 Se duplicó el ingreso de indocumentados en abril pasado. El gobierno del presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, anunció ayer la cancelación del Estatus de Protección Temporal (TPS, por sus siglas en inglés), al que están acogidos unos ... -
U.S. Citizen Who Was Held By ICE For 3 Years Denied Compensation By Appeals Court
By Camila Domonoske ~ NPR ~ August 1, 2017 Davino Watson told the immigration officers that he was a U.S. citizen. He told jail officials that he was a U.S. citizen. He told a judge. He repeated it again and again. There is no right to a court-appointed attorney in ... -
Border patrol violence: US paid $60m to cover claims against the agency
By Sarah Macaraeg ~ The Guardian ~ May 1, 2018 Exclusive: analysis of more than a decade of official data reveals government paid settlements after deaths, alleged assaults and wrongful detention. The US government has paid out more than $60m in legal settlements where border agents were involved in deaths, driving ... -
López Obrador rompe otra vez su techo histórico y está en 48% de intención de ...
Por Sin Embargo ~ La Opinion ~ 4 de Mayo 2018 Ricardo Anaya sube y José Antonio Meade baja, de acuerdo al sondeo realizado por Bloomberg. MÉXICO – Andrés Manuel López Obrador ha alcanzado un nuevo máximo histórico en la carrera por la Presidencia. El candidato del Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional (Morena) ... -
Regulators sue Albertsons, saying it violated Latino workers' rights by banning Spanish
By Morgan Cook ~ LA Times ~ May 4, 2018 Albertsons grocery stores violated the rights of Latino employees with a policy forbidding workers to speak Spanish around non-Spanish speakers — even when conversing with one another during breaks or helping Spanish-speaking customers, according to a new lawsuit. The U.S. ...