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Legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants at risk after court talks collapse
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 years ago
Negotiations between the Biden administration and attorneys representing hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in the U.S. under a temporary humanitarian program collapsed this week, paving the way for Trump-era decisions to revoke their legal status to take effect absent court...
CBP records highest EVER annual number of migrants crossing southern border illegally - 2.37m - and that doesn't include the ones that got away!
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 13 Comments • 3 Likes • 4 years ago
America has broken its record for the highest number of illegal immigrants intercepted at the border in a single month and a single year. Customs and Border Patrol figures released late Friday night revealed there were 227,547 'migrant encounters' last month alone. And for the fiscal year...
Do You Remember S&H Green Stamps?
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 4 Likes • 4 years ago
We are all familiar with customer loyalty programs. Reasor’s Foods, Walgreens Drug Stores, Ace Hardware, and other retailers offer Rewards cards or apps that offer discounted prices, on their products, or in the case of Reasor’s Foods, a discount on QuikTrip gasoline. For many years, Warehouse...
After 187 years, the Cherokee Nation wants its seat in Congress
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 23 Comments • 4 years ago
“The 1835 treaty that led to the devastating Trail of Tears included a provision that the Cherokee should get a delegate seat in the House.”
A few years ago, Kimberly Teehee had her family genealogy done, wanting to learn about her Native American roots “pre-removal.” Using a memorial in North Carolina, with names of the Cherokee people who were forcibly moved west, her family discovered at least eight Teehee ancestors who...
Democrat mayor sends more illegal migrants to New York than Texas’s Republican governor
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 12 Comments • 3 Likes • 4 years ago
A Democrat city in Texas on the Mexico border has bussed more people to migrant sanctuary cities – in a bid to highlight illegal immigration – than the state’s own Republican governor. El Paso, which sits across the border from Juarez, Mexico, sent 7,000 migrants to New York City by bus over...
Wounded Knee land comes home at last
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 41 Comments • 6 Likes • 4 years ago
It was the last resolution of the day but it was a stunner. The Oglala Sioux tribal council voted in an historic decision Sept. 7 to purchase 40 acres of Wounded Knee land from Jeanette Czywczynski for $500,000 – a move that now puts the entire Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark site under...
Bois Forte Band Gets 28,000 Acres of Land Back in Northern Minnesota
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 years ago
“In the largest land-back agreement in Minnesota and one of the largest-ever in Indian Country, the Bois Forte Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe...”
The purchase of the 28,089 acres in northern Minnesota from The Conservation Fund will restore lands that were sold by the federal government to non-Natives as “surplus” under the Allotment Act, which attempted to break up tribal reservations. “So when we hear about reservations today, a lot...
EXCLUSIVE: Family of Bill Clinton advisor was found hanging from a tree with a shotgun blast at a ranch 30 miles from his home
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 11 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 years ago
Top Clinton advisor Mark Middleton died by suicide at the age of 59 on May 7, the Perry County Sheriff's Office in Arkansas confirmed Middleton was President Bill Clinton's special advisor who admitted Jeffrey Epstein to the White House seven of the at least 17 times the pedophile visited The...
U.S. counts Indian boarding school deaths for first time, but leaves key questions unanswered
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 13 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 years ago
“The Interior Department documented more than 500 deaths of Indigenous children, but it's far from a complete count. "We have a long way to go," one...”
The U.S. Department of Interior released its investigative report Wednesday on the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative. It’s being called the first volume of the report and comes nearly a year after the department announced a “comprehensive” review. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Bryan...