After a disquieting stint of more than two months in the clutches of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Allan Dabrio Marrero, a Brooklyn resident with origins traced back to the Cayman Islands, can at last prepare to tread the familiar floors of his home; a lawful reunion with his husband lies within reach. A Manhattan green card interview on November 24, one that would thrust Dabrio Marrero unexpectedly into ICE's unforgiving padlocked embrace,
What recourse are you left with when a government program simply stops doing the thing that is its primary purpose, and refuses to explain why? That's what hundreds of parents, family members and legal guardians have presumably been wondering about the United States Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in the last few months, given an explosive report published today by NPR affiliate KERA News, which alleges that ORR, the agency tasked with caring for "unaccompanied" minors and reuniting them with vetted sponsors,
My mother, Regina Treitler, had in fact violated the War Brides Act, but she justified her actions as the only way she could reunite her family after the Holocaust. My parents had fled Germany in 1938, right before Kristallnacht. They had saved themselves, but my mother had been tormented by the fact that her two brothers and her sister-in-law had not escape. They were trapped in Europe for the duration of the Holocaust, their fates unknown.
A Native American, Lozano describes growing up in a loving but dysfunctional family In Oakland and Antioch. She was sexually assaulted as a child and began running away at age 11, landing in a dangerous mire of gangs, juvenile crime, abusive boyfriends and sex work. After giving birth to the first of her four children at age 15, she became addicted to drugs, lived at times in her truck and lost custody of her children.
A man and his best friend are being reunited in Mexico on Friday, three months after being separated by immigration agents outside a Day Laborer Center about an hour east of Los Angeles. The Inspector General for California's massive prison system says a backlog of investigations into staff misconduct has ballooned to 10,000 cases. The governing body for high school sports in California is changing its bylaws in an effort to protect immigrant student athletes.
In "Rebuilding," a Colorado cowboy sifts through the ashes of the life that once sustained him, struggling to find a way forward after wildfires take his family farm. In U.S. theaters Nov. 7, via Bleecker Street, this elegiac story of one rancher's journey through an environmentally devastated American West is Max Walker-Silverman 's achingly tender second feature, following "A Love Song."
Charities and universities have criticised the UK government's "excessively harsh" rules preventing university students from Gaza bringing their families with them to Britain. Last week, 34 Gaza students with scholarships at British universities were evacuated ahead of starting their studies. But some students said they would have to give up their places rather than leave family in Gaza, after learning tighter immigration rules barred them from bringing dependents.
After planes with Guatemalan children were loaded in the U.S., then prevented from taking off by a federal judge's decision to temporarily halt the children's removal, the Guatemalan government said on Aug. 31 that it was responsible for recently proposing to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that the unaccompanied Guatemalan minors be returned to their home country. In a statement published to the social media platform X on the
Hardly a day goes by without a new insult being hurled in the faces of asylum seekers and refugees. We're scroungers, rapists, fighting-age men who shouldn't have left our home countries. Sometimes we're simply illegals, the most dehumanising term of all. When did it become a crime to run for your life? The people levelling these accusations are superb at making themselves heard. Mud sticks and most of us
"Using Google, social media and anything else they can think of, Miracle Messages helps unhoused clients find their mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, or anyone else they are looking for."
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