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Trump administration’s immigration fees would hurt immigrants in Philly and nationwide | Opinion

Philadelphia Daily News 15 Dec 2019

Vulnerable immigrant communities are under attack in the United States. The Trump administration has proposed policies that will slap a series of fees on Philadelphia’s immigrants, and then use the revenue generated to fund the detainment and deportation system striking fear in communities of immigrants across the country....

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Immigrants in Butte County affected by new public charge rule

Chico Enterprise Record 15 Dec 2019

CHICO — Meeting the needs of the immigrant community has been a struggle for Butte County for years ... Effects on immigrants ... Participants “expressed the need for more providers” who offer services to vulnerable communities like recent immigrants and refugees ... Immigrants without ......

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9 years after Guatemalan man's shooting, LAPD officers get help to identify indigenous languages

Finger Lakes Times 15 Dec 2019

K'iche', spoken by Guatemalan Mayas, is one of many indigenous languages common in Los Angeles' immigrant communities ... The fact that Jaminez spoke K'iche' underscored that there are those in L.A.'s Mexican and Central American immigrant communities who may not be fluent in Spanish....

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9 years after Guatemalan man’s shooting, LAPD officers get help to identify indigenous languages

Dothan Eagle 15 Dec 2019

K’iche’, spoken by Guatemalan Mayas, is one of many indigenous languages common in Los Angeles’ immigrant communities ... The fact that Jaminez spoke K’iche’ underscored that there are those in L.A.’s Mexican and Central American immigrant communities who may not be fluent in Spanish....

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Ogden man, 20 years out of Mexico, seeks 'more of a voice' now as U.S. citizen

Ogden Standard-Examiner 15 Dec 2019

Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Salt Lake City ... Citizenship and Immigration Services field office in Salt Lake City on Dec ... Though the immigration debate has pushed many in the immigrant community and their advocates to protest and clamor for reform, Altamirano, while sympathetic, isn’t among them....

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Immigration policy of BJP has unwanted side-effects

Deccan Chronicle 15 Dec 2019

An old and proud country votes to choose a policy that is against immigration. The majority of the country in the heartland is firmly behind the party that is campaigning against immigrants and using strong language against them ... anti-immigration stance, swept England and Wales....

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Police investigate vandalism of synagogue in California

San Francisco Chronicle 15 Dec 2019

A place of worship for the Persian Jewish community in Southern California, the synagogue was founded by David Shofet, who immigrated to the United States in 1980 from Tehran in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution ... “It is not just an attack on the Jewish Community ......

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India’s Modi ‘legally’ alienates Muslims: Counsels Sri Lanka on ethnicity

Asian Tribune 15 Dec 2019

It will grant citizenship to persecuted people from these communities, provided they have resided in India for six years ... The bill envisages the exclusion of Muslims as an effort by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party to marginalize India’s broader Muslim community, which makes up about 14% of the nation’s population....

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Beverly Hills police investigate vandalism at Nessah Synagogue as a hate crime

Finger Lakes Times 15 Dec 2019

A place of worship for the Persian Jewish community in Southern California, the Nessah Synagogue occupies a respected place in Los Angeles' Iranian community. It was founded by David Shofet, who immigrated to the United States in 1980 from Tehran in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution ... "Our community can't stay silent about this."....

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Researchers call for harnessing, regulation of AI

Inquirer 15 Dec 2019

... algorithmic determinations of benefits and social services, to surveillance and tracking of immigrants and underrepresented communities."....

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The next election will be decided by the suburbs: Joel Kotkin

San Gabriel Valley Tribune 15 Dec 2019

highly educated communities and those dominated by minority groups and immigrants. This anti-Trump suburban pushback was most evident in large metro areas such as Southern California, where many immigrants have settled ... In recent years the anti-suburban mentality has crystalized around efforts to eliminate the single-family zoned community....

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Philly’s first urban agriculture director kicks off plan to save endangered edible gardens

The Philadelphia Tribune 15 Dec 2019

Most of the farms and gardens are in areas where the majority of residents are immigrants, Black or Latinxs. Why these community gardens are closing is the question Richards’ team wants to clarify during the planning process ... Philly has thousands more vacant lots that could become community gardens....

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Palestinians in Bethlehem look beyond religious tourism

Statesville Record & Landmark 15 Dec 2019

Israeli cuisine owes much to Jewish immigrants from ancient communities across the Middle East and North Africa ... The guesthouse is part of a wider initiative by the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land and a local association to support the Christian community....