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The Mayas built the first water filtration system in the Americas
By Katherine Kornei, Science Magazine – Nov. 5, 2020 The Maya city of Tikal is famous for its soaring palaces and temples. But something far more humble kept Tikal functioning: ... -
400,000 Immigrants Can Be Forced to Leave the U.S., Court Rules
People from countries like El Salvador and Haiti who won temporary protected status after fleeing natural disaster and war can be forced to return home, a federal appeals court ruled. ... -
México disuelve a golpes la caravana migrante
Un muro de militares choca contra los centroamericanos y frena el paso de la mayoría, mientras otros 2.000 todavía aguardan en Guatemala Por: Aitor Sáez, El Periodico - Martes, 21/01/2020 - 21:00 ... -
Shunting asylum seekers to Mexico doesn’t absolve the U.S. of its duty to them
By Editorial Board, Washington Post – December 25 at 3:51 PM IN TESTIMONY to Congress on Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen spoke at length, and repeatedly, about the threats ... -
Mexico has a plan to reduce the migrant flow from Central America. Trump should embrace ...
By Editorial Board, Washington Post – December 16, 2018 ON FRIDAY, after a 7-year-old girl died in Border Patrol custody, a White House spokesman called on Congress to “disincentivize” Central American migrants from ... -
Separated by Trump, All a little girl remembers about America: 'They took my dad and ...
By Emily Green ~ Daily Beast ~ October 13, 2018 SAN JUAN IXCOY, GUATEMALA—With an impish smile, 5-year old Filomena draws up her right hand and fashions herself into a ... -
Offering lawyers to immigrants facing deportation is a worthwhile way to spend public money
By: The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times ~ April 25, 2017 Having a lawyer can make all the difference in the world to someone facing deportation in federal immigration court, ... -
The American Dream Meets a Central American Nightmare
By ANTHONY W. FONTES, New York Times ~ APRIL 5, 2017 It is an unprecedented time in a nation’s political history. A neophyte politician — a man famous for lowbrow TV ... -
Here’s the Reality About Illegal Immigrants in the United States
By VIVIAN YEE, KENAN DAVIS and JUGAL K. PATEL, New York Times ~ MARCH 6, 2017 There are 11 million of them, the best estimates say, laboring in American fields, ... -
Also barred by Trump's executive order: These heavily vetted kids from Central America
By: Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 2, 2017 http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-central-american-refugees-20170131-story.html President Trump’s executive order on immigration has halted a government program that allows Central American children to seek refugee status in ...