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Deporting soldiers? Why immigrant veterans fear removal from the US | Donald Trump News

Deporting soldiers? Why immigrant veterans fear removal from the US | Donald Trump News

Published by Sam Flores

Seeking citizenship from a warzone Hernandez has spent most of his life in the US. He was brought across the border by his mother as a baby. He now has three children, all US citizens. As of 2022, nearly 731,000 military veterans like Hernandez were immigrants. They comprise roughly 4.5 percent of the US’s veteran population. For decades, faced with declining enlistment numbers, the US military has depended on immigrants to serve alongside its US-born citizens. Most have citizenship, too — but an estimated 118,000 immigrant veterans do not. Hernandez is one of them. Like many other veterans struggling to reintegrate into society after their military service, Hernandez struggled to find his place in the civilian world. He was jailed on illegal gun charges shortly after returning from his deployment. When he was released a few weeks later, he found he had been evicted from his apartment, and all his possessions, including military memorabilia, had been confiscated. “I came out with nothing,” he told Al Jazeera. With few options left, he became involved in selling …

Christianity in the UK is flourishing in immigrant communities – but a US-style Christian nationalism is lurking elsewhere

Christianity in the UK is flourishing in immigrant communities – but a US-style Christian nationalism is lurking elsewhere

Published by Sam Flores

Polling company YouGov has thrown into question claims of a recent upsurge in church attendance among young adults. This has not surprised some experts, who cite evidence for the more conventional story of steep religious decline. If Christianity was once central to British society, that claim remains difficult to sustain in the 21st century. Church membership and attendance have both fallen sharply in recent decades. In England, 11.7% of the population attended church on a typical Sunday in 1979. By 2005, that figure had dropped to 6.3%. The number of people identifying as Christian remained much higher for longer, still above 70% in England and Wales in 2001. Read more: There may not be a Christian revival, but Britain’s traditional churches aren’t doomed Perhaps this was because Christianity continued to function as a marker of national identity or moral inheritance, rather than active belief or practice. Research has shown how, especially for older generations, Christianity retained associations of moral propriety, ethnic identity and national belonging. For some, to be British was to be Christian. But …

Immigrant seniors lose Medicare coverage despite paying into it : NPR

Immigrant seniors lose Medicare coverage despite paying into it : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Rosa María Carranza attends a protest supporting the temporary protected status program outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco on Nov. 18, 2025. Carranza, a resident of neighboring Oakland, worries she could lose her legal status and risk indefinite detention or deportation. Hiram Alejandro Durán/El Tímpano hide caption toggle caption Hiram Alejandro Durán/El Tímpano OAKLAND, Calif. — Rosa María Carranza leaned forward to hold a 3-year-old’s back as the girl climbed a rock in the forested hills of northeast Oakland. Dressed in hiking gear and beaded necklaces, Carranza, 67, maneuvered between trees and children on a sunny morning in December. “Hold onto that branch,” she said in Spanish. “You can do it, my love!” Carranza, a child development professional who grew up swinging through trees and swimming in rivers in El Salvador, said she feels at home in the forest at the outdoor preschool she co-founded. She has worked with children and teens as a caregiver and educator for more than three decades, long enough to know when to lean …

Venezuelan immigrant seeks lawsuit against government over CECOT detention

Venezuelan immigrant seeks lawsuit against government over CECOT detention

Published by Sam Flores

A Utah law firm has filed a personal injury notice of claim against the U.S government on behalf of a Venezuelan national who was allegedly tortured at the Salvadoran maximum security prison CECOT. Attorneys from Parker & McConkie wrote in a legal filing that their client — using the alias Johnny Hernandez — entered the U.S. legally and had no criminal record, but was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in San Diego and sent to CECOT “without due process.” With the notice of claim, the legal team is gearing up toward a $56-million lawsuit against the government. Hernandez and his family first left Venezuela for Colombia when he was 11 years old due to political turmoil. Years later, they traveled to Central America and Mexico and awaited asylum status in the U.S. The family was eventually granted humanitarian parole and allowed to legally enter the U.S. in August 2024. “Our client is a young Venezuelan man who came into the U.S. legally to escape threats of violence by the Venezuelan government against his …

Detained Immigrant Children Still Face Concerning Conditions at Texas Facility, Lawyers Say

Detained Immigrant Children Still Face Concerning Conditions at Texas Facility, Lawyers Say

Published by Sam Flores

Nearly 600 immigrant children were held in a Texas family detention center in recent months without enough food, medical care or mental health services, as their time inside stretched beyond court-mandated limits, according to court documents filed Friday. Children and families held in the Dilley detention facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father were sent earlier this year also faced virus outbreaks and lasting lockdowns in December and January, although the total number of children held at Dilley has fallen in recent weeks, according to the attorney’s reports and site visits. The case of Ramos, a preschooler who was wearing a blue bunny hat when he was picked up in Minnesota by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, stirred protest over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, including among detainees who gathered and held up signs in the yard inside Dilley’s chain-link fences. Last week about 85 children remained detained at Dilley, but concerning conditions continued, said Mishan Wroe, directing attorney at the National Center for Youth Law, who visited in mid-March. In early February, …

200,000 Immigrant Truck Drivers Begin Losing Licenses Under New Trump Admin Rule

200,000 Immigrant Truck Drivers Begin Losing Licenses Under New Trump Admin Rule

Published by Jenni Sidey

About 200,000 immigrant truck drivers in the United States could lose their commercial driver’s licenses once they expire under a new rule backed by the administration of Donald Trump, according to VNY. Which leads us…and everybody else to ask: we had 200,000 immigrant truck drivers in the United States? We had 200K immigrant truck drivers??? https://t.co/3XOBiCqdzE pic.twitter.com/lJuKDOubZj — Logan Hall (@loganclarkhall) March 16, 2026 But we digress. The policy bars asylum seekers, refugees, and participants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program from obtaining commercial driver’s licenses. It is part of a wider crackdown on foreign truck drivers following several high-profile crashes last summer. Experts warn the change could further strain the trucking industry, which already faces labor shortages while handling the majority of freight in the United States. Trucks transport more than 70% of the country’s cargo, but the sector struggles with long hours, relatively low pay, dangerous road conditions, and extended time away from home. As many American workers leave the field, immigrants have increasingly filled those roles. In recent months, enforcement actions …

Whom Does Your God Love? A Jewish Case for the Stranger. With Shai Held

Whom Does Your God Love? A Jewish Case for the Stranger. With Shai Held

Published by Sam Flores

 Like many children, I grew up being told not to talk to strangers, and especially don’t accept candy or car rides from them. If they offer, run to the nearest responsible adult. I was told kidnappers lurk in shopping malls. At the same time, every 1950s science-fiction film about creatures from outer space were really about other, earthly aliens, serving as allegories about the Soviet threat.  But by the late 1970s, the tune changed. Films like “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” (1982) and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977) conveyed a different message: The aliens were not all that bad, and actually could be quite lovable. Others, like “Alien” (1979) and the remake of “War of the Worlds” (2005), brought us right back into the paranoia that could be seen allegorically as xenophobia. As is true with many things, Judaism offers a different point of view. Yes, some strangers and foreigners are hostile, and in Jewish history, this was true more often than not. But not every stranger is an object of fear and scorn. …

Librarians Supporting Immigrant Students, and More Library News

Librarians Supporting Immigrant Students, and More Library News

Published by Jenni Sidey

Katie’s parents never told her “no” when she asked for a book, which was the start of most of her problems. She has an MLIS from the University of Illinois and works full time as a Circulation & Reference Manager in Illinois. She has a deep-rooted love of all things disturbing, twisted, and terrifying and takes enormous pleasure in creeping out her coworkers. When she’s not at work, she’s at home watching the Cubs with her cats and her cardigan collection. Other hobbies include scrapbooking, introducing more readers to the Church of Tana French, and convincing her husband that she can, in fact, fit more books onto her shelves. Twitter: @kt_librarylady View All posts by Katie McLain Horner Source link