Immigration & Equality

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  Andy B

  

  15 hours ago

  Texas awards $307 million in contracts for 14 miles of new border wall

  texastribune.org - by Uriel J. García

  The two companies awarded contracts on Thursday will erect border barriers in Del Rio and the Rio Grande Valley. State officials awarded two contracts …

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  Andy B

  

  3 days ago

  While DeSantis was flying legal asylum seekers to Martha’s Vineyard, business owners in his state were struggling for workers

  CNN - Vanessa Yurkevich

  CNN Business — For the past two years Jan Gautam has been filling in sporadically as a housekeeper at hotels in Orlando, Florida, run by Interessant Hotels & Resort Management, or IHRMC. When he’s not making beds, he’s busy running the company. He’s the President and CEO of IHRMC — which is based in …

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  Andy B

  

  3 days ago

  Cuba approves same-sex marriage in unusual referendum

  NBC News - Associated Press

  Cubans have approved a sweeping “family law” code that would allow same-sex couples to marry and adopt as well as redefining rights for children and grandparents, officials said Monday, though opposition in the national referendum was unusually strong on the Communist Party-governed island. The …

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  Andy B

  

  5 days ago

  Editorial: Why both parties in Congress must join forces to solve the immigration problem

  stltoday.com - By the Editorial Board

  The United States is caught in a vicious cycle of border immigration crises followed by abusive and outlandish responses like the stunts recently …

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  Andy B

  

  6 days ago

  Why Republican governors are relocating migrants across US

  Al Jazeera - Jihan Abdalla

  GOP defends push that rights groups denounce as political stunt ahead of midterm elections. What exactly is going on? Washington, DC, – For months, the Republican governor of Texas has been sending asylum seekers on buses to Democratic-run states – without prior warning or coordination – to draw …

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  Andy B

  

  Sep 22

  Migrants Promised a Flight to Delaware Were Instead Abandoned at a Motel

  Rolling Stone - Nikki McCann Ramirez

  A second group of Texas migrants have been left scrambling to find resources after allegedly being offered transportation by the Florida government. …