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Wednesday, 25 November 2020

Latest News for: Immigrant communities

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Ethiopian-Israeli activists denounce PM for failure to fulfill aliyah vow

The Jerusalem Post 25 Nov 2020

... be eligible for immigration to Israel under the criteria established by previous government decisions ... While many of the first immigrants from the community who came in the 1980s and 90s were of maternal Jewish descent, almost all of those remaining are of paternal Jewish descent....

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Immigrant advocates to Biden: Be better than Obama.

Politico 25 Nov 2020

Transition 2020 Immigrant advocates to Biden ... But immigrant advocacy groups aren’t planning to hold back on their demands ... Biden and his transition team know the president-elect will have to rebuild trust with immigrant communities and do more than just end the harm caused by the Trump administration, one person close to the transition said....

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‘We The Immigrants’ photo exhibit on Payne Avenue latest in project to elevate immigrant voices

Pioneer Press 25 Nov 2020

Below the bright blue Café Lilla sign and on top of the building’s boarded up windows are dozens of immigrant faces ... Larson hopes the project will not only raise awareness but help create a dialogue and recognize the contribution of immigrants to the community ... To view Brooklyn Rail’s “We the Immigrants” visit brooklynrail.org....

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Noah Smith: Biden's Homeland Security pick is no border softie

The Mercury 25 Nov 2020

President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to end many of Trump’s harsh new immigration policies ... ICE intrusions into communities will be curbed, families will be reunited and conditions in immigrant detention camps will improve dramatically....

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George B. Reed Jr.: Coming up short

Walker & Catoosa County News 25 Nov 2020

He also rekindled the anti-immigrant fears in Midwestern blue-collar areas. He convinced them their jobs, their communities and their families were endangered by alien immigrant hordes hell-bent on taking over....

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How language barriers can add anguish and complicate care for COVID-19 patients who don't speak English

Standard-Speaker 25 Nov 2020

Through the pandemic, children of immigrants who do not speak English continue to be the ones responsible for ... “If our government doesn’t change the system that continues to abandon low-income, Spanish-speaking immigrant communities, we will always be left behind,” Ortega added....

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'Miami Noir' knits together a collection of South Florida classics

Finger Lakes Times 25 Nov 2020

"Miami Noir ... ___ ... Each story in "Miami Noir. The Classics" stories illuminates South Florida's landscape of immigration, ecology, grifters, betrayal and fresh starts ... The excerpt from Douglas Fairbairn's 1977 novel "Street Eight," and a personal favorite is considered to be the first novel to showcase South Florida's Cuban immigrant community ... ....

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Reward offered in fire that killed 5, including 2 children

Scottsbluff StarHerald 25 Nov 2020

"Because the family members who perished in this tragedy are members of minority and immigrant communities, it would only be prudent to investigate the possibility of a bias motive,” Cole said the day after the fire....

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Groups work to share produce

Rocky Mount Telegram 25 Nov 2020

Katie-Rose Crater, interim co-director of Farmer Foodshare, works with farmers of color, and women and veterans who are farmers in the Durham area, to buy their produce and sell it to communities and schools ... She said the program has benefited Latinx and other immigrant communities in need, as well as local farmers....

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Quiroga is wrong to have played the race card

The Galveston Daily News 25 Nov 2020

I became a clinical social worker and my best friend became a banking officer ... Z for categorizing me and my community (“Quiroga accuses critic of racism,” The Daily News, Nov. 24) ... I’ve spoken of my pride in being the child of immigrants from Mexico who raised five children to become good U.S. citizens who contributed to their community and family ... .......

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Gianaris Joins Stewart-Cousins Announcing New Senate Supermajority

The National Herald 25 Nov 2020

Among the historic changes our majority already achieved are election reforms, combating climate change, tenant protections, fixing the unfairness in our criminal laws, and protecting the civil rights of women, immigrants and our LGBTQ neighbors....

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6 art shows to see in Dubai and Abu Dhabi before the end of the year

The National 25 Nov 2020

Spanning photography, printmaking, painting and film, the works reflect on the precarious state of the environment, specifically its effects on indigenous communities ... reflecting on ideas of Arab immigrant identity, as well as the everyday realities of living in a foreign land....

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