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A diabetic immigrant in Ice custody sued for her release. Instead, she got Covid-19
Marisol Mendoza has Covid-19. She’s scared she will die, alone, in an isolation cell of the immigration detention center where she’s been held for the past four years. Read more at The Guardian
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Traumatized migrant kids were being shot. One school district came up with a plan to save them
Anibal Ramirez left Guatemala as a child and had only lived in Oakland for less than two years when he became the city’s youngest gun homicide victim in 2017 at just 13 years old. Read more at The Guardian
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La Palma cases increase after ICE assured judge of no suspected cases
Three days after ICE claimed in court filings that there were no longer any active or suspected COVID-19 cases in an Arizona immigration detention facility, four more detainees tested positive. Read more at Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
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Tensions skyrocket as COVID-19 fears grip Arizona detention center
Rodrigo Martínez was certain he had a fever. Gasping for air, he said, felt like breathing pepper. It burned. Read more at Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
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Deported amid coronavirus: US sends Guatemalan family home to face new threat
As the plane descended into Guatemala City, María tried to calm her six-year-old niece. “Mami, I feel like I’m falling,” the girl told her from the window seat next to her. María, 26, was scared too, and not just because this deportation flight was her first time in the air. They were returning to Guatemala – the…
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‘It’s like a sick experiment’: Arizona lags behind as states order residents to stay home
For the last three weeks, 57-year-old Ann O’Connor has avoided leaving her home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As a cancer survivor with asthma, she is considered high risk for severe illness, and she wants to do her part to stop the virus’s rapid spread. But others here are not taking…
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‘It is beyond cruel’: Ice refuses to reunite girl with the only family she has left
For more than nine months, María, 23, has been waiting in an immigration detention center in Arizona hoping to reunite with the six-year-old niece she raised as a daughter. When the two asked for asylum at the border last March because they feared for their lives in Guatemala, border officials detained María in the Eloy…
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She raised her niece like a daughter. Then the US government separated them at the border
The six-year-old girl on the other end of the line tells Alexa she fears they will never be together again. In another 15-minute phone call, she questions if Alexa still loves her. She asks Alexa to pick her up from the family she’s staying with in New York. Alexa hears the girl say the words…
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As DACA fix remains elusive, Arizona ‘Dreamers’ focus on in-state tuition
Yael Balbuena is one of more than 200 immigrant high schoolers, college students and their allies, who visited Arizona’s state Capitol this week to tell lawmakers about the obstacles facing immigrant students trying to access higher education.
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The job Americans won’t take- Arizona looks to Philippines to fill teacher shortage
College-educated Americans are increasingly uninterested in teaching jobs – so Arizona has begun to recruit from abroad.
