Immigrant Communities

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'We've been here before': Coronavirus adds discrimination to challenges for immigrant communities

Metrowest Daily News 26 May 2020

Paul Watanabe, director of the Institute for Asian ......

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Minorities hit hard by coronavirus

The Daily Democrat 26 May 2020

While immigration officials have issued statements saying undocumented individuals will not be penalized for getting coronavirus testing and treatment, immigration raids and fears of deportation have made the community extremely skeptical of the government, Gallegos said....

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City’s immigrant-friendly policy clouds $9.7M grant

Albuquerque Journal 26 May 2020

However, he sent a statement saying that “as the independently elected Sheriff of the largest county and of the only minority-majority state in the country,” he is proud of his relationship and ties to the immigrant community and to his law enforcement partners....

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KPISM calls for field clinic at immigration depots amid COVID-19 outbreak

Malaysian National News Agency 26 May 2020

PUTRAJAYA, May 26  -- The Peninsular Malaysia Immigration Services Union (KPISM) has called on the relevant authorities to set up field clinics at immigration depots affected by COVID-19 cases ... "The influx of illegal immigrants, if left unchecked, would affect the safety of the local communities....

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New Olim and communal responsibility - watch

The Jerusalem Post 26 May 2020

She says that moving to a new country gives immigrants an opportunity for change ... She says that new immigrants need to find a place to build their own part of a community ... I think community is everything.”. Steinberg cautions that it takes time for new immigrants to find their sense of community and place in Israel....

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47% of Israeli Anglos support West Bank annexation - I24 poll

The Jerusalem Post 26 May 2020

The poll also found that a vast majority of French-speaking Israelis (90%) support an annexation of parts of the West Bank, highlighting a difference of political attitudes towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict between the two communities of Olim (immigrants to Israel)....

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Chicago Community Trust grant to fund two Sun-Times newsroom positions

Chicago Sun-Times 26 May 2020

To do that, they need objective facts about what is happening in our communities,” said Helene Gayle, president and CEO of The Chicago Community Trust ... In nearly four years at the Tribune, Malagón became passionate about producing compelling stories about immigration, the 2020 Census, crime and other issues impacting marginalized communities....

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DeSantis sends Jamaican- and Cuban-American to Supreme Court

Montana Standard 26 May 2020

Ron DeSantis appointed two Floridians from minority communities to the state Supreme Court on Tuesday. a Palm Beach County circuit judge who immigrated from Jamaica and a former assistant U.S. attorney who is the son of Cuban immigrants ... who also immigrated from the Caribbean....

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Kent restaurant The Battleground embraces social justice on its plates, in its glasses

Cleveland 26 May 2020

... with door-to-door-based organizing, then gained the opportunity to start a "broad-based community organization." He built a coalition of groups, churches, schools, immigrant-aid groups and others, working on goals ranging from affordable housing to youth violence....

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May 26, 2020 - Herring Fights Trump Administration Attempts To Intimidate Immigrant Communities

Public Technologies 26 May 2020

'ICE's courthouse arrests are merely another attempt by the Trump Administration to target and intimidate immigrant communities,' said Attorney General Herring. 'These illegal arrests endanger our communities and our public safety, stop courts from operating properly, and have extremely negative effects on immigrant communities....

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Immigrants with COVID-19 may hesitate to go to hospitals

Chicago Sun-Times 26 May 2020

Francesca Garcia, a critical care nurse, heads the COVID unit at Holy Cross Hospital in the Chicago Lawn community ... Garcia grew up in Little Village, and said immigrant communities can be both fertile ground for the pandemic to spread, and a population reluctant to seek professional medical care once it does....

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Former Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy Receives Award

Daily Freeman 26 May 2020

This award shines a spotlight on immigrant leaders in U.S ... Murthy is receiving the 2020 Vilcek-Gold Award for Humanism in Healthcare for his multi-faceted approach to addressing the opioid crisis in the United States, and for his continued advocacy and support of human- and community-centered care....

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Swedish imam and rabbi issue joint peace statement to mark Eid, Shavuot

The Jerusalem Post 26 May 2020

aWhile much of the world is social distancing, an imam and a rabbi in Malmo, Sweden are looking to bring their two communities closer together through the sharing of their faiths ... Bakarat meanwhile explained that, from his perspective, the Jews have much to teach the Muslim community about integration....