immigration
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A Trump Administration Cut Will Leave Some Immigrants Withou…
[ad_1] In April, the Trump administration cut funding for a program that provided legal aid to immigrants with serious mental health conditions who were detained and facing deportation. The move has left attorneys scrambling to keep serving clients for whom they say legal representation can be a matter of life or death. For one young…
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Trump Targeting International Students Over Pro-Palestinian …
[ad_1] This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters. In a significant escalation of its crackdown on campus activism, the Trump administration claims to have revoked more than 300 student visas, primarily targeting international students…
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Trump Shows Off the $5 Million Immigration ‘Gold Card’ with …
[ad_1] Donald Trump’s gold immigration cards are becoming a reality. On Thursday, April 3, the president posed with the first “Trump Card” — a $5 million green card alternative that would allow wealthy immigrants to be admitted to the United States — while speaking to reporters on Air Force One. He projected that such cards, decorated…
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Trump’s Targeting of Immigrants With Legal Status Departs Fr…
[ad_1] This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters. Late last month, Kevin Zaldaña Ramírez was detained by Immigration Customs and Enforcement officers at the construction site outside of Houston where he was working. Zaldaña,…
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Why Trump’s Crime, Immigration Crackdown Needs More Prisons …
[ad_1] This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters. During his first month in office, President Donald Trump has made moves to expand the United States’ already gargantuan carceral system. The Trump administration’s goals, from…
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How Trump’s Migrant Detention Offers ‘Perverse’ Incentives f…
[ad_1] This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters. Just before the 2024 presidential election, Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said that if former President Donald Trump won, he would get back into the “deportation…
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Einar and Jamex de la Torre’s Monumental Glass Assemblages H…
[ad_1] In 1972, when Einar and Jamex de la Torre were nine and 12 years old, respectively, their family moved to Southern California from their hometown, Guadalajara, Mexico. Building upon their immigrant experiences and the sometimes contradictory facets of bicultural identity, the artists began creating sculptures and installations exploring themes as varied as time, religion,…
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Election 2024: Voters to Decide on Abortion, Marijuana, Slav…
[ad_1] This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters. Election Day is Tuesday, and in localities and states across the country, criminal justice is on the ballot. This week, we’re bringing you a roundup of…
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Why Sheriffs’ Elections Matter | The Marshall Project
[ad_1] Four years ago, I drove to a small town in rural Missouri to meet the parents of Billy Ames, who were suing the St. Francois County Sheriff’s Department over his death. An autopsy said the cause of death was a meth overdose, and jailers admitted they had strapped Ames to a restraint chair. While…
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Trump slams Harris over data showing nearly 15K illegal immi…
[ad_1] Former President Donald Trump blamed Vice President Kamala Harris Friday for the shocking number of migrants living illegally in the US who have been convicted or accused of homicide. Trump, 78, called the federal data showing more than 15,000 illegal immigrants have been charged with or convicted of homicide the “worst numbers I think…
