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US citizen, Army veteran detained at California immigration raid

US citizen, Army veteran detained at California immigration raid

Facebook Tweet Email Link George Retes, a 25-year-old Army veteran and father of two, had been planning his three-year-old daughter’s Minnie Mouse birthday party at the park for weeks. He would get her an inflatable bounce house, invite the whole family and shower her with gifts and treats. She was excited for the fun party and he was excited to …

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Central District of California | Mexican National Charged in Federal Criminal Complaint with Staging Fake Immigration ‘Kidnapping’

Central District of California | Mexican National Charged in Federal Criminal Complaint with Staging Fake Immigration ‘Kidnapping’

LOS ANGELES – An illegal alien from Mexico has been charged in a federal criminal complaint with orchestrating a phony kidnapping – which she blamed on federal agents or people working with federal agents – to generate public sympathy and solicit donations, the Justice Department announced today. Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, 41, of South Los Angeles, is charged with conspiracy …

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Colleagues rally round California professor arrested during Ice raid on cannabis farm | US immigration

Colleagues rally round California professor arrested during Ice raid on cannabis farm | US immigration

Academics and colleagues are rallying around a California university professor who was arrested and charged with assaulting a federal officer during a chaotic immigration raid at a cannabis farm that resulted in a worker’s death. John Caravello, a math and philosophy professor at California State University Channel Islands, joined a crowd of protesters who confronted immigration agents when they arrived …

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Ice arrests Oregon chiropractor as he was dropping off child at preschool | US immigration

Ice arrests Oregon chiropractor as he was dropping off child at preschool | US immigration

An Oregon father was taken into US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) custody while dropping off his child on 15 July at a preschool in the Portland-area town of Beaverton, the agency confirmed. The man, identified by Ice as 38-year-old Iranian citizen Mahdi Khanbabazadeh, was arrested outside Guidepost Montessori school after being stopped by agents en route. An Ice spokesperson …

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Black home schoolers push back against racist, unregulated curricula: ‘They called slavery immigration’ | Race in education

Black home schoolers push back against racist, unregulated curricula: ‘They called slavery immigration’ | Race in education

In 2018, Dr Timberly Baker decided to home school her children after a local school in Arkansas failed to challenge her eldest child. Her daughter, Baker said, is gifted. But despite routinely testing off the charts during standardized exams, the school had no plan on how Baker’s daughter could take more advanced classes. Still new to home schooling, Baker decided …

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US citizen says he was jailed for three days after California immigration raid – Reuters

US citizen says he was jailed for three days after California immigration raid  Reuters Army veteran and US citizen arrested in California immigration raid warns it could happen to anyone  AP News Farm worker who died after California Ice raid was ‘hardworking and innocent’, family says  The Guardian ICE, CBP Arrest at Least 361 Illegal Aliens During Marijuana Grow Site Operation, Rescue at …

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Florida wrongly charges 2 people under halted immigration law

Florida wrongly charges 2 people under halted immigration law

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — At least two people have been wrongly charged under a Florida law that outlaws people living in the U.S. illegally from entering the state since a federal judge halted its enforcement, according to a report Florida’s attorney general is required to file as punishment for defying the judge’s ruling. Both men were arrested in late May …

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Lawsuit seeks to stop ICE agents from arresting migrants at immigration courts

Lawsuit seeks to stop ICE agents from arresting migrants at immigration courts

A group of immigrants and legal advocates filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday that seeks to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from arresting migrants who appear at immigration courts for previously scheduled hearings and placing them on a fast-track to deportation. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Department of Homeland Security, Justice …

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