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State Assistance: $4.6M available for Ukraine immigrants, refugees

The News Guard 25 Mar 2023

Lincoln City, Newport, and other Oregon communities now have a funding source to help Ukraine immigrants and refugees ... The Refugee Program provides cash, medical, employment and acculturation services to refugees who are within 60 months of gaining their eligible immigration status.

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Trinidadian among 17 nabbed in ICE operation

Jamaica Observer 25 Mar 2023

On Friday, ICE said those arrested also included several Mexican and Guatemalan nationals, who were released from incarceration on parole or placed on probation into communities under supervision during a nationwide enforcement effort between March 4 and March 13. The immigration ...

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US-Canada migration deal aims to end walk-around crossings

Chatanooga Times Free Press 25 Mar 2023

JOHNSBURY, Vermont (AP) — The immigration deal announced Friday by U.S ... Johnsbury, Vermont, population 6,000, alerted state officials that the Border Patrol had dropped off a vanload of immigrants with just a few minutes notice at the community's welcome center.

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AGCO Agriculture Foundation Awards $50,000 Grant to Providence Farm Collective

Algeria Times 25 Mar 2023

PFC has now grown to encompass refugees and immigrants from ... In addition, the project will facilitate capacity building and support efforts on postharvest and food safety practices for the farmers.Refugees and immigrant communities can often lack socioeconomic opportunities.

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US, Canada end loophole that let asylum-seekers cross border

The Grio 25 Mar 2023

Johnsbury, Vermont, population 6,000, alerted state officials that the Border Patrol had dropped off a vanload of immigrants with just a few minutes notice at the community’s welcome center ... A Haitian immigrant looks through clothes at the Northeast Kingdom Community Action in St.

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With Congress stuck, some immigrant advocates go local

The Virginian-Pilot 25 Mar 2023

With Congress at an impasse on major federal immigration legislation, some advocates have turned to local legislatures to promote and push through bills that would give undocumented immigrants access to driver’s licenses, in-state college tuition and other services ... immigrants.

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US, Canada close immigration border loophole

East Bay Times 25 Mar 2023

Johnsbury, Vermont, population 6,000, alerted state officials that the Border Patrol had dropped off a vanload of immigrants with just a few minutes notice at the community’s welcome center ... without authorization, and were given a notice to appear for later immigration proceedings.

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US, Canada ends loophole that let asylum-seekers cross border

New York Post 25 Mar 2023

... some migrants into Vermont with a future date to appear before immigration authorities ... Johnsbury, Vermont, population 6,000, alerted state officials that the Border Patrol had dropped off a vanload of immigrants with just a few minutes notice at the community’s welcome center.

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Op-Ed | More childcare options for families with a living wage for educators

Bronx Times 25 Mar 2023

Moreover, the governor, the state Senate and the Assembly budget proposals exclude children due to their immigration status ... And children benefit from access to those programs — regardless of their immigration status — setting them on a better path for success as they approach kindergarten.

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Applications open for small business grants

Victoria Advocate 25 Mar 2023

The business must be at least 51% owned, operated, and controlled by small business owners who identify as Asian American and/or Pacific Islander; black and/or African American; Hispanic; immigrants, refugees, and/or forcibly displaced; members of the LGBTQ community; Middle ...

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Letter to the editor: Hochul's budget spends too much

The Post-Star 25 Mar 2023

... force local governments to accept socialist-style central planning edicts for housing in our local communities.$1.7 billion in health care funding for illegal immigrants.Hochul proposes annual increases in minimum wage of either 3% or the rate of inflation — whichever is lower.

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Vice President Harris embarks on history-making Africa trip amid US-China competition

CNN 25 Mar 2023

Though Harris is the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, ... Senior administration officials say Harris will use the trip to highlight the African diaspora, a group of communities across the globe that includes millions of African immigrants and descendants of Black slaves.

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Some roadblocks to lifesaving addiction treatment are gone. Now what?

The Keene Sentinel 25 Mar 2023

Kim’s recent visit to the Greater New Bedford Community Health Center in southern Massachusetts began in an exam room with Jamie Simmons, a registered nurse who runs the center’s addiction treatment program but doesn’t have prescribing powers ... with low incomes and immigrants.

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Runoffs in 10th, 30th wards offer new faces with a couple of familiar names

Chicago Sun-Times 25 Mar 2023

Residents in both wards want stronger public safety and more community investment ... ‘The community can organize, can make noise’ After 20 years, Ald ... “The community wants to see something new ... She founded Centro de Trabajadores Unidos to serve the Southeast Side’s immigrant and low-income worker communities.

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At this school, computer science class now includes critiquing chatbots

Denver Post 25 Mar 2023

“We are evaluating ChatGPT ... Related Articles. Technology . ... It is one of several computer science courses at the school that ask students to consider how popular computer algorithms — often developed by tech company teams of mostly white and Asian men — may have disparate impacts on groups such as immigrants and low-income communities ... Tags ... ....