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☆ Attack on U.C.L.A. Encampment Stirs Fears of Clashes Elsewhere
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Miriam Jordan | More About Miriam Jordan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In an interview, Mr. Carr said the Israeli American Council, which describes itself as a nonpartisan group representing Israelis and Israeli Americans, did not condone the violence. But the nonprofit organization’s plans to stage more counter-protests on or near other college campuses has raised the prospect of further confrontations between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian factions. professor of Jewish history who, with colleagues, tried to act as a buffer between the two sides. The demonstrations have expanded to more campuses in recent days, with encampments popping up and students occupying buildings and central quads. Access to some colleges has been restricted to students and faculty out of safety concerns More than 2,000 people have been arrested or detained.

Persons: Carr, ”, David Myers Organizations: Israeli American Council, Israel, Columbia University Locations: New York, Gaza, Israel

☆ New Migrants Get Work Permits. Other Undocumented Immigrants Want Them, Too.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Miriam Jordan | Lydia Depillis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sam Sanchez, a Chicago restaurateur, was incensed when President Biden announced last September that his administration would extend work eligibility to nearly half a million Venezuelans, many of them migrants who had recently crossed the border illegally. What about his undocumented employees like Ruben, a Mexican father of two U.S.-born children who has been in the United States since 1987, and Juan, another Mexican worker, who has trained dozens of new hires at Moe’s Cantina? “It’s offensive that my employees and other immigrants are being leapfrogged by new arrivals,” said Mr. Sanchez, who is on the board of the National Restaurant Association. Having built lives and families since entering the country unlawfully many years ago, they have been waiting for Congress to give them a path to work legally. “For those of us here a long time trying to do everything right, it’s just not fair that we are forgotten,” said Juan, 53, whose last name was withheld out of concern about his immigration status.

Persons: Sam Sanchez, Biden, Ruben, Juan, “, ”, Sanchez, it’s Organizations: National Restaurant Association Locations: Chicago, Mexican, United States, Moe’s

On Wednesday, divers worked through dangerous conditions searching for the bodies of the six missing men. Two were recovered from a submerged vehicle, and the other four are presumed dead, officials said. Maynor Yasir Suazo Sandoval, in his 30s, of Honduras, immigrated to the United States more than 17 years ago, according to Mr. Torres, and is married with two children. All but one of the eight men worked for Brawner Builders, a contractor based in Baltimore County, the company said. The men who went missing after the collapse were all immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico, according to consular authorities and the nonprofit.

Persons: Francis Scott Key, Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera, Miguel Luna, Gustavo Torres, Luna, Maynor Yasir Suazo Sandoval, Torres, Suazo’s, Carlos, ” Carlos Suazo, Kirsten Noyes Organizations: CASA, The Times, Mr, Brawner Builders Locations: Baltimore, Dundalk, Md, El Salvador, Maryland, Honduras, United States, Baltimore County, Guatemala, Mexico

Jesus Campos said he worked at Brawner Builders alongside the men missing after a bridge collapse in Baltimore. “We’re low-income families,” said Jesus Campos, who has worked at the construction company, Brawner Builders, for about eight months. The executive, Jeffrey Pritzker, and the Coast Guard said that all of the missing workers were presumed dead, given how long it had been since the collapse. Embassies for the other two countries mentioned by Mr. Campos did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Officials said that in addition to the six missing workers, two people had been rescued from the water.

Persons: Jesus Campos, “, ”, Jeffrey Pritzker, Mr, Pritzker, “ It’s, Campos, Francis Scott Key, Miguel Luna, Luna, Gustavo Torres, Jacey Fortin, Miriam Jordan, Patricia Mazzei, Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, Kirsten Noyes Organizations: Brawner Builders, Brawner, Coast Guard, Baltimore Banner Locations: Baltimore, Baltimore County, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Maryland, Petén, Mexican, Washington, Brawner

☆ Chicago Begins Evicting Migrants From Shelters, Citing Strain on Resources
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Miriam Jordan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Chicago officials on Sunday began evicting some migrants from shelters, joining other cities that have made similar moves to ease pressure on overstretched resources. Out of the nearly 11,000 migrants living in 23 homeless shelters in Chicago, according to the Office of Emergency Management and Communications, a fraction — 34 single adults — were required to leave on Sunday. They will be determined on a case-by-case basis, city officials said, for pregnant women, people with certain medical issues and migrants who are already in the process of securing housing. Families with children can receive renewable 30-day extensions. And many families with children may be forced to exit the shelter network altogether by the summer.

Organizations: Sunday, Emergency Management, Communications Locations: Chicago

☆ Driving With Mr. Gil: A Retiree Teaches Afghan Women the Rules of the Road
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Miriam Jordan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

“Go, go, go” said her driving instructor, as she slowed down through an open intersection. Don’t stop.”Her teacher was Gil Howard, an 82-year-old retired professor who happened upon a second career as a driving instructor. In Modesto, Calif., he is the go-to teacher for women from Afghanistan, where driving is off limits for virtually all of them. In recent years, Mr. Howard has taught some 400 women in the 5,000-strong Afghan community in this part of California’s Central Valley. Gil,” as he is known in Modesto, more Afghan women likely drive in and around the city of about 220,000 than in all Afghanistan.

Persons: ”, Gil Howard, Howard, Mr, Gil Locations: Modesto, Calif, Afghanistan, Central Valley

☆ Judge Upholds Biden Program Giving Some Immigrants Short-Term Legal Status
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Miriam Jordan | More About Miriam Jordan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A federal judge on Friday allowed the Biden administration to keep in place a program that officials have used to give temporary legal status to some citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The decision is a notable victory for the White House, which has faced criticism on immigration policy and has used the temporary status program to discourage people from some of the region’s most troubled countries from illegally crossing the southern U.S. border. Texas and other Republican-led states had sued the Biden administration to block the program. But Judge Drew B. Tipton of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas sided with the administration, which considered the program vital to border management. The number of unlawful crossings by nationals from three of the countries in the program has declined, even as the overall number of migrant crossings has continued at historically high levels.

Persons: Biden, Drew B Organizations: White, Republican, Tipton, U.S, Southern, Southern District of Texas Locations: Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela, U.S, Texas, Southern District

☆ Illegal Border Crossings Plummeted in January
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Hamed Aleaziz | Miriam Jordan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The number of people crossing illegally into the United States from Mexico has dropped by 50 percent in the past month, authorities said on Tuesday, as President Biden comes under growing pressure from both parties over security at the border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it had encountered migrants between ports of entry 124,220 times in January, down from more than 249,000 the previous month. The figures do not change the fact that the number of people crossing into the United States has reached record levels during the Biden administration, and crossings typically dip in January. Immigration trends are affected by weather patterns and other issues, making it difficult to draw conclusions from monthly numbers. But the drop in crossings was a glimmer of good news for the Biden administration as House Republicans impeached Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, on Tuesday on charges of willfully refusing to enforce border laws.

Persons: Biden, Alejandro N Organizations: U.S . Customs, Protection Locations: United States, Mexico, U.S

☆ Big Burden of Migrant Influx Strains Denver
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-12 | by ( Miriam Jordan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In his first six months in office last summer, the mayor of Denver, Mike Johnston, managed to get more than 1,200 homeless people off the streets and into housing. That seemed like a fitting feat for a city that prides itself on its compassion. And the city has begun to feel the same sort of strains that have confronted New York and Chicago as they contended with their own migrant influxes. Denver, the state capital and the center of a sprawling metropolitan area of more than 3 million people, has spent more than $42 million on the migrants. If expenditures continue at the current pace of $3.5 million a week, the crisis could cost the city about $180 million in 2024, or 10 percent or more of its annual budget.

Persons: Mike Johnston, Greg Abbott of Organizations: Gov Locations: Denver, Greg Abbott of Texas, New York, Chicago, . Denver

☆ Opinion | Desperate Migrants Seeking a New Life
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An investigation by The El Paso Times found that migrant deaths surged at the El Paso border in fiscal year 2023 to the highest level on record. Despite this — because of the urgency of their needs — migrants still come. It deported 20 percent more parents and children than President Trump removed in fiscal year 2020. Ultimately, we need long-term and sustainable solutions, including more legal pathways to enter the U.S. in the face of a changing world. We know from our daily work that when people have orderly, legal options for entering the country, they take them.

Persons: Miriam Jordan, Jordan, Trump Organizations: El Paso Times, Biden Locations: El Paso, Mexico, Ciudad

☆ One Big Reason Migrants Are Coming in Droves: They Believe They Can Stay
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Miriam Jordan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Today, people from around the globe are streaming across the southern border, most of them just as eager to work. But rather than trying to elude U.S. authorities, the overwhelming majority of migrants seek out border agents, sometimes waiting hours or days in makeshift encampments, to surrender. In fact, it is a crucial step toward being able to apply for asylum — now the surest way for migrants to stay in the United States, even if few will ultimately win their cases. We are living in an era of mass migration — fueled by conflict, climate change, poverty and political repression and encouraged by the proliferation of TikTok and YouTube videos chronicling migrants’ journeys to the United States. Migrants from Africa, Asia and South America are mortgaging their family land, selling their cars or borrowing money from loan sharks to embark on long, often treacherous journeys to reach the United States.

Persons: — Organizations: Central, U.S . Border Patrol Locations: Mexico, Central America, U.S, Los Angeles, Atlanta, United States, Africa, Asia, South America

☆ Israeli Mothers Knew Their Sons Would Serve. But They Didn’t Expect War.
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Miriam Jordan | More About Miriam Jordan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The six mothers had gathered in a Jerusalem home on a recent Friday to prepare challah, the braided bread that Jews eat on the Sabbath. After they recited a blessing that is part of the ritual, each woman added a prayer of her own. “I just want everybody to come back alive and in one piece, mentally and physically,” said one, her voice breaking. No sooner had the women finished praying than a WhatsApp message appeared on Rebecca Haviv’s cellphone. “I’m gonna be without a phone soon,” wrote her son, Adam, a 29-year-old combat soldier on reserve duty.

Persons: “, ”, Ruthie Tick, Rebecca Haviv’s, Adam Organizations: Israeli Army Locations: Jerusalem, Gaza, Iran, Israel, Lebanon

☆ They Fled Climate Chaos. Asylum Law Made Decades Ago Might Not Help
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Miriam Jordan | More About Miriam Jordan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

First came the hurricanes — two storms, two weeks apart in 2020 — that devastated Honduras and left the country’s most vulnerable in dire need. In distant villages inhabited by Indigenous people known as the Miskito, homes were leveled and growing fields were ravaged. Then came the drug cartels, who stepped into the vacuum left by the Honduran government, ill-equipped to respond to the catastrophe. “Everything changed after the hurricanes, and we need protection,” Cosmi, a 36-year-old father of two, said, adding that his uncle was killed after being ordered to abandon the family plot. Hundreds of other Miskito were alongside him in tiny tents, all hoping to claim asylum.

Persons: ” Locations: Honduras, Honduran, Mexico, Texas

She immediately called Shira Chuna, a 16-year-old teammate, to express her outrage, although she didn’t tell her parents or anyone else. Then she texted Mustafa in an exchange that she later shared with The New York Times. “I didn’t say you were Musta,” Avishag wrote back. “Right now Hamas are in the wrong.”She told him to tell her if he wanted the videos. It seemed they had achieved an uneasy peace, although they couldn’t be sure until they swam together again.

Persons: ” Mustafa, you’re, Avishag, Shira Chuna, texted Mustafa, “, I’m, ” Avishag, “ It’s, ”, “ Israel, that’s, texted Organizations: The New York Times, Hamas Locations: Israel

☆ Hard Hit by Loss of Thai and Palestinian Workers, Israeli Farmers Call for Volunteers
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Miriam Jordan | More About Miriam Jordan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Israeli farms, core to the country’s national identity, for years employed Palestinian and Thai workers. “My workers are gone because of the war; I’m panicking,“ said Gabi Swissa, 61, from his farm outside Kadima in central Israel. For decades, he has counted on Palestinians and Thais to plant, harvest and pack strawberries. Volunteers he had expected to help on his farm one day last week had not shown up. Since the outset of the war, he said, farms are lacking at least 15,000 workers.

Persons: Thais, I’m, “, Gabi Swissa, Swissa, ”, Yuval Lipkin Organizations: Volunteers, Ministry of Agriculture Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ Border Wall Falls Leave Migrants With Devastating — and Costly — Injuries
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Miriam Jordan | More About Miriam Jordan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ambulances rush them daily to hospitals in El Paso, San Diego and Tucson, Ariz., writhing in pain — bones poking out of arms and legs; skulls cracked; spines shattered. The men and women arrive on stretchers flanked by an agent in the telltale green uniform of the U.S. Border Patrol. “One look, and I know it’s another wall fall,” said Brian Elmore, an emergency medicine physician at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso. The patients are all migrants who have crashed to the ground while trying to climb over the wall that separates Mexico and the United States for long stretches of the border. But many migrants have been undaunted by the barriers, and for hundreds of them, the result has been debilitating injuries that require multiple surgeries, according to physicians working in U.S. hospitals near the border.

Persons: ”, Brian Elmore, Biden Organizations: U.S . Border Patrol, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Locations: El Paso , San Diego, Tucson, Ariz, El Paso, Mexico, United States, U.S

The Biden administration also allowed nearly 500,000 Venezuelan migrants who are already in the country to seek work permits and protection from deportation. The administration yielded to pressure from leaders in New York, where the recent arrival of more than 100,000 migrants in New York City has overwhelmed shelters and strained resources. Migrants like Mr. Soto and his mother are arriving on a tailwind of stories of friends and relatives who reached New York or Chicago months earlier. Many also believe false claims from smugglers and social media that migrants would definitely be able to remain in the United States if they could make it in. “The smuggling organizations are spreading misinformation with a global reach that they couldn’t do before,” said John Modlin, the Border Patrol’s Tucson sector chief, who is coordinating the response to border crossings in Arizona and California.

Persons: Biden, Soto, ”, John Modlin, Mr, Modlin Organizations: “ Locations: New York, New York City, United States, Chicago, Tucson, Arizona, California

Instead, the city has quietly avoided the kind of emergency that has strained shelters and left officials pleading for federal help in New York, Chicago and Massachusetts. Los Angeles officials are relieved to have avoided major problems so far, especially considering that their city has faced so many other challenges lately, from a homelessness emergency to a prolonged Hollywood labor strike. “Luckily, we have the infrastructure.”Officials at homeless shelters in Los Angeles report that they have not seen a significant increase in recent migrants seeking temporary housing. A major reason California has avoided a crisis is that the state no longer attracts as many migrants as it did decades ago when it was a top destination for people moving to the United States. Although Los Angeles is home to the largest undocumented population in the United States, most have been living in the city for at least a decade.

Persons: ”, Hugo Soto, Martinez Organizations: Massachusetts ., ”, Sun Locations: New York, Chicago, Massachusetts, Massachusetts . Los Angeles, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Mexico, Texas, California, United States, Angeles

☆ Federal Judge Again Rules DACA Is Illegal
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Miriam Jordan | More About Miriam Jordan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A federal judge in Texas again ruled unlawful on Wednesday a program that has shielded hundreds of thousands of undocumented young adults from deportation and allowed them to legally work in the United States, rejecting a new rule that the Biden administration had introduced to address the court’s concerns. The judge, Andrew S. Hanen of the Federal District Court in Houston, maintained that President Barack Obama exceeded his authority when he created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, by executive action in 2012. The decision is the latest twist in a five-year-long court saga that has left the program and its beneficiaries, known as Dreamers, hanging in the balance. While the ruling is a blow to the immigrants, the judge did not mandate an immediate end to the program. “There are no material differences between the two programs,” the judge wrote in his 40-page opinion, adding that his decision did not compel the government to “take any immigration, deportation or criminal action against any DACA recipient.”

Persons: Biden, Andrew S, Barack Obama, ” Organizations: Federal, Court Locations: Texas, United States, Houston

☆ The Pennsylvania Fugitive: Why Wasn’t He Deported?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Miriam Jordan | More About Miriam Jordan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At an unknown time and at an unknown location, Danelo Souza Cavalcante, a 34-year-old citizen of Brazil, entered the United States unlawfully — without being inspected or admitted by a U.S. immigration official, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Sometime after that, in April 2021, prosecutors said he fatally stabbed his Brazilian girlfriend in front of her children in Pennsylvania, and he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. It was the second time he was accused of a horrific crime: He was fleeing a 2017 murder charge in Brazil when he entered the United States, the authorities said. His escape from the Chester County Prison in Pennsylvania on Aug. 31 touched off a colossal manhunt, now entering its second week, and a host of questions about why Mr. Cavalcante had not been deported after his arrest in the United States — and whether, once captured, he would remain in a U.S. prison at taxpayers’ expense. The case highlights an issue the criminal justice system has long confronted: the question of what happens when crimes are committed by undocumented immigrants, who studies show are much less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born citizens.

Persons: Danelo Souza Cavalcante, Cavalcante Organizations: Department of Homeland Security, Prison Locations: Brazil, United States, Pennsylvania, Chester, U.S

And it has been that way for years. Intent on highlighting the large number of people crossing the border in recent years, which he blames on the Biden administration’s immigration policies, Mr. Abbott devised a plan to approach migrants after they had been processed by the border authorities and offer them free rides on chartered buses. “I’m going to take the border to President Biden,” he said at a news conference after introducing his plan in April 2022. Greg Abbott of Texas. Credit... Christopher Lee for The New York TimesMany migrants have been grateful for the free transportation, because they often have little money left by the time they complete a monthslong trek to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Persons: Abbott, I’m, Biden, ”, Greg Abbott of, Christopher Lee Organizations: Biden, Greg Abbott of Texas ., The New York Times Locations: Texas, Greg Abbott of Texas, U.S, Mexico

In Louisville, Ky., an influx of Cuban immigrants is offsetting a local population decline and bringing new rhythms to the city. Aug. 26, 2023At the first beats of “La Vida es un Carnaval” on a recent morning, several octogenarians in a senior center abandoned their dominoes, coloring books and crossword puzzles, and showed off their salsa moves. “Uno, dos, tres,” said their instructor, Selen Wilson Guerra, as she warmed them up for class. This was not Havana, or even Little Havana in Miami. It was Louisville, a city best known for bourbon, the Kentucky Derby and Muhammad Ali.

Persons: “, clapped, “ Uno, ”, Selen Wilson Guerra, Muhammad Ali Organizations: Kentucky Derby Locations: Louisville, Ky, Cuban, Havana, Miami, United States

☆ New Florida Immigration Rules Start to Strain Some Businesses
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Miriam Jordan | More About Miriam Jordan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After signing into law a raft of new measures aimed at undocumented immigrants in Florida, Gov. Under the new law, which went into effect on July 1, hospitals are required to ask patients their immigration status and document the costs of caring for such patients. Many more employers are now required to use an electronic database to identify hires illegally in the country, or face fines. And undocumented immigrants can no longer be sure that drivers’ licenses from every other state will be considered valid in Florida. But its effects have begun to ripple through the state, stirring fear in some immigrant communities and frustration among some business owners.

Persons: Ron DeSantis Organizations: Gov Locations: Florida

A federal judge struck down on Tuesday a stringent new asylum policy that officials have called crucial to managing the southern border, dealing a blow to the Biden administration’s strategy after illegal crossings by migrants declined sharply in the last few months. The rule, which has been in effect since May 12, disqualifies most people from applying for asylum if they have crossed into the United States without either securing an appointment at an official port of entry or proving that they sought legal protection in another country along the way. Immigrant advocacy groups who sued the administration said that the policy violated U.S. law and heightened migrants’ vulnerability to extortion and violence during protracted waits in Mexican border towns. They also argued that it mimicked a Trump administration rule to restrict asylum that was blocked in 2019 by the same judge, Jon S. Tigar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Persons: Biden, Trump, Jon S Organizations: United States, Court, Northern, Northern District of Locations: United States, Northern District, Northern District of California

Migrant shelters with plenty of empty beds. Soldiers patrolling intersections where migrant families once begged for spare change. In Ciudad Juárez and in other Mexican cities along the border, the story is much the same: Instead of surging as elected officials and immigration advocates had warned, the number of migrants trying to enter the United States has plummeted following the expiration in May of a pandemic-era border restriction. The unusual scenes of relative calm flow from a flurry of actions the Biden administration has taken, such as imposing stiffer penalties for illegal border crossings, to try to reverse an enormous jump in migrants trying to reach the United States. But it is also the result of tough steps Mexico has taken to discourage migrants from massing along the border, including transporting them to places deep in the country’s interior.

Persons: Biden Organizations: Ciudad Juárez Locations: United States, Mexico

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