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Biden Plans to Visit U.S.-Mexico Border
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 17 Comments • 2 Likes • 3 years ago
“The White House adds a long-debated border visit to the president’s planned Mexico City summit trip”
President Biden said Wednesday that he intends to visit the U.S.-Mexico border during his trip to Mexico City next week. “We’re working out the details now,” Mr. Biden said. The president’s comments came after The Wall Street Journal reported the White House was strongly considering adding a...
Border, what border? Huge hole is cut in El Paso barrier to let migrants pour through - with desperate crossers also digging holes and using SEWERS to sneak into Texas
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 194 Comments • 5 Likes • 3 years ago
A gaping hole cut into the border fence between Mexico and the US reveals the ease with which migrants can cross the border illegally - regardless of the strict Title 42 rules. On a stretch of the border fence just four miles from downtown El Paso, Texas, traffickers cut the large opening close...
Mayorkas receives icy welcome from 'lifeless' Border Patrol agents
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 3 Likes • 4 years ago
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was confronted by at least one Border Patrol agent during his visit to El Paso, Texas, this week about his response to the millions of illegal immigration attempts at the U.S.-Mexico border since President Joe Biden took office, according to three...
El Paso residents on edge over migrant surge
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 3 Likes • 4 years ago
There has been an overwhelming influx of migrants crossing over the border into El Paso, Texas, and just over 5,700 migrants remained in Border Patrol custody Wednesday morning, according to the city’s dashboard. However, El Paso residents told NewsNation that they aren’t too worried about...
Mass Migrant Crossing Floods Texas Border Facilities
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 46 Comments • 6 Likes • 4 years ago
Hundreds of migrants, part of a caravan of people mainly from Nicaragua, crossed en masse into the United States at El Paso on Sunday, among the largest single crossings along the West Texas border in recent years. The group of about 800 to 1,000 people was one of several in recent days that...
In Native American adoption case, Supreme Court explores race and tribal sovereignty
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 12 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
“One family's fight could upend decades of federal law.”
Dr. Jennifer and Chad Brackeen and their four kids are a blended family in a fight to stay together. But in the process, they could upend more than 40 years of federal law on the sovereignty of America's Native tribes and affect the fate of numerous Native children. Jennifer Brackeen, an...
'Our environment shapes us': Ojibwe architect Sam Olbekson designs from an Indigenous perspective
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 years ago
“Olbekson's work centers Indigenous values on culture and sustainability.”
Sam Olbekson was first exposed to architecture at age five, when his uncle was a construction worker on a project to build the Minneapolis American Indian Center. Decades later, Olbekson, 51, now runs his own architecture firm, Full Circle Indigenous Planning. He’s also MAIC's board president,...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEVIL DOGS
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 5 Likes • 4 years ago
https://www.facebook.com/marine.corps.birthday/photos/10159670750244322 UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS BIRTHDAY On November 10th, The United States Marine Corps Birthday commemorates the establishment of the Continental Marines. #MarineCorpsBirthday The United States Marine Corps, a branch of...
University returning 1,500 artifacts to Oneida Indian Nation
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 4 Likes • 4 years ago
“Colgate University is returning to the Oneida Indian Nation more than 1,500 items buried with ancestral remains”
Colgate University is returning to the Oneida Indian Nation more than 1,500 items once buried with ancestral remains — a collection of culturally significant items that includes pendants, pots, bells and turtle shell rattles, some dating back 400 years. The “funerary objects” were purchased in...
Native child welfare law faces major Supreme Court challenge
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 3 Likes • 4 years ago
“The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday on the most significant challenge to a law that gives preference to Native American...”
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday on the most significant challenge to a law that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children. The outcome could undercut the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act,...