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Opinion: Give me liberty or a Tinpot Dictator
Newton Daily News - Iowa
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By Steve Corbin, Professor Emeritus of Marketing, University of Northern Iowa Peggy Noonan has been a right-leaning columnist for The Wall Street Journal since leaving the Ronald Reagan administration as his primary speechwriter. Five of Noonan’s...
“Danger Is At The Door:” A Latina Therapist on Counseling a Community Threatened By ICE
MindSite News
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July 3, 2025
Mara Sammartino of First-Gen Therapy in Vacaville, California In more than 10 years as a therapist, Mara Sammartino, a bilingual licensed clinical social worker, has had a front-row seat to the impact of federal immigration policy – and the first...
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Everglades immigration detention center opposed
South Florida Times
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July 3, 2025
“ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ”: Pushback seeks to stymie efforts to establish facts on the ground, with first arrivals expected imminently following Tuesday’s visits by Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. PHOTO COURTESY OF...
U.N. Hosts Dress Rehearsal for COP30
Foreign Policy
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Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: Brazilian negotiators prepare for November’s United Nations climate conference, a Nicaraguan dissident is killed in Costa Rica, and a Peruvian Japanese restaurant in...
Legal Pluralism in Practice: Colombia’s New Framework for Indigenous Territorial Self-Government
EJIL: Talk!
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July 3, 2025
In May 2025, the Colombian government took a historic step toward realising a long-delayed constitutional promise: by means of a decree, it recognised the right of indigenous peoples to establish autonomous territorial entities with their own...
Deportations, firings and immigration: Legal clashes mount at US Supreme Court over Trump’s post-return executive orders
Malay Mail
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June 29, 2025
WASHINGTON, June 29 — The US Supreme Court has acted in a series of cases involving challenges to executive orders signed by President Donald Trump and actions by his administration since he returned to office in January. Cases at the court have...
Opinion – Argentina’s Javier Milei Shows his Teeth
E-International Relations
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July 4, 2025
Argentine President Javier Milei is riding high. His tough economic program has eliminated the government’s chronic deficits and dramatically cut inflation. The International Monetary Fund has given him its seal of approval with a huge new loan...
88 children at Louisa County camp taken into protective custody
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier - Iowa
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What hurricane season was like the year you were born What hurricane season was like the year you were born The fast winds, rapid rainfall, and huge storm surges of hurricanes make this natural disaster responsible for hundreds of deaths and...
Trump administration to end deportation relief for 500,000 Haitians: What it means and what comes next
The Economic Times
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June 27, 2025
The Trump administration has announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 500,000 Haitians living in the United States, marking a significant escalation in its efforts to restrict immigration and increase...
What hurricane season was like the year you were born
KONO 101.1 - Texas
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June 16, 2025
The fast winds, rapid rainfall, and huge storm surges of hurricanes make this natural disaster responsible for hundreds of deaths and billions of dollars in damages each year. Hurricanes have wreaked more havoc than any other type of natural...
‘Kiss of death’: South Florida reacts to end of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status
Yahoo News
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Nadine Mallebranche was only five years old when her family fled the political upheaval of Francois “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s Haiti in the late 1980s. In the United States, the Mallebranche family found safety. After her parents died when she was 13,...
Trump studiously follows an authoritarian playbook
Des Moines Register - Iowa
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Steve Corbin is a professor emeritus of marketing at the University of Northern Iowa. Peggy Noonan has been a conservative voice for the Wall Street Journal since leaving the Ronald Reagan administration as his primary speechwriter. Five of...
Trump ends temporary protected status for Haitians; more than a half-million people now face deportation
The Spokesman-Review - Washington State
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The Trump administration is putting an end to Haiti’s temporary protected status designation, dealing yet another devastating blow to roughly a half-million Haitian nationals, some of whom have lived in the United States for more than a decade....
Trump administration to end deportation relief for Haitians in the U.S.
NBC News
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June 27, 2025
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will end deportation protections for half a million Haitians, the latest move by the Trump administration to strip migrants of legal status as it ramps up deportations. Noem, who shortened the duration...
Miami clergy raise concerns as Trump tours Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
Catholic Review - Maryland
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July 3, 2025
MIAMI — Most Americans agree on the need for good U.S. border security, but to hear politicians and civil authorities hurl insults and jokes at the expense of migrants as Florida opened its new “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention center in the...
Trump administration to end deportation relief for Haitian migrants
The Denver Gazette - Colorado
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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will end deportation protections for half a million Haitians, the latest move by the Trump administration to strip migrants of legal status as it ramps up...
US sets deadline to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants
Yahoo News
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The United States government has announced it will terminate special protections for Haitian immigrants. In a statement issued Friday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that, starting on September 2, Haitians would no longer be able...
New ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ for migrants called a ‘sinful initiative’
OSV News
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July 2, 2025
MIAMI (OSV News) — Most Americans agree on the need for good U.S. border security, but to hear politicians and civil authorities hurl insults and jokes at the expense of migrants as Florida opened its new “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention...
The Catholic nun who brought faith and social justice to New York’s airwaves for over 50 years
America Magazine
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June 27, 2025
Three times a day on Sunday for the past 52 years, Camille D’Arienzo, R.S.M., told millions of New Yorkers exactly what was on her mind. In her mellifluous, Queens-accented voice, Sister D’Arienzo interrupted breaking news of crime, traffic and...
Mitigating risk in Latin America amid new US administration and recent sanctions trends
Global Investigations Review
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June 30, 2025
Introduction In recent years, sanctions targeting Russia, Iran and North Korea have received significant attention. Yet, some of the longest-standing and most comprehensive sanctions programmes of the United States target individuals and...