Supreme Court denies Biden administration efforts to end 'Remain in Mexico' policy

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“The program had previously left tens of thousands of Central American migrants waiting in tent cities where they were often subjected to violent...”

The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied the Biden administration’s request to pause the implementation of a Trump-era immigration policy. The Justice Department asked the court late last week to delay reinstatement of the policy, known as “Remain in Mexico,” arguing in its brief that the policy had...

The Proclamations Used To Incite The Sand Creek Massacre Have Been Officially Rescinded, 157 Years Later

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For over 150 years, official language used to start the Sand Creek Massacre was never officially revoked even after Colorado achieved statehood.  That ended Tuesday when the proclamations were officially rescinded at the Colorado state Capitol in an announcement that included Indigenous tribal...

July was busiest month for illegal border crossings in 21 years, CBP data shows

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The number of migrants detained along the Mexico border crossed a new threshold last month, exceeding 200,000 for the first time in 21 years, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection enforcement data released Thursday. Among the 212,672 migrants taken into U.S. custody in July were...

Push to Return 116,000 Native American Remains Is Long-Awaited

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“Changes to U.S. regulations would seek to eliminate red tape that has delayed the return of burial remains and sacred objects held by museums and...”

The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan held a reburial ceremony for the remains of ancestors that were returned to them in 2014 by the University of Michigan. In 1990, when Congress passed a law that set criteria under which federally recognized Native American tribes...

Senate Democrats propose requiring women to register for military draft

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“Senate Armed Services Chair Jack Reed has proposed changing draft registration requirements to include all Americans.”

Senate Democrats are proposing a sweeping rewrite of the military draft laws aimed at requiring women to register for the Selective Service System, according to a draft authored by Senate Armed Services Chair Jack Reed and obtained by POLITICO. The changes to Selective Service could...

A blaring siren’ for Democrats after ruling halts DACA

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Immigrants and advocates are urging Democrats and President Joe Biden to quickly act on legislation to protect young immigrants after a federal judge in Texas on Friday ruled illegal an Obama-era program that prevents the deportation of thousands of them brought into the U.S. as children....

Indian boarding school investigation faces hurdles in missing records, legal questions

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““The truth needs to be heard from the perspective of those who were harmed,” the leader of the National Native American Boarding School Healing...”

Over the four decades that the Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School operated in Michigan, thousands of Native American children from across the country were taken from their parents and sent there to be stripped of their languages and traditions. The U.S. documented five deaths of...

Supreme Court rules illegal immigrants who re-entered the US after being deported are NOT entitled to bond hearings and can be detained indefinitely

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The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the government can indefinitely detain certain immigrants who say they will face persecution or torture if they are deported to their native countries. Over the dissent of three liberal justices, the court held 6-3 that the immigrants are not entitled to a...

Native American women face an epidemic of violence. A legal loophole prevents prosecutions.

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“Limits on tribal prosecutions have worsened the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, experts say. Congress is weighing a fix.”

When Officer James Saylor of the Crow Tribe Police Department came across Joshua Cooley parked along a rural stretch of highway on the tribe’s reservation in Montana in 2016, he first noticed the man appeared not to be a Native American, according to court records. Then he spotted two...

SHOCK MOVE US Olympian & Black Lives Matter activist Gwen Berry TURNS AWAY from US flag and says she was ‘p***ed’ anthem was played

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OLYMPIAN Gwen Berry turned away from the US flag as she was "p***ed" the national anthem played while she stood on the podium during a trial event. The Black Lives Matters activist says she feels it was "a set-up" and that she was the anthem was put on "on purpose". The music has been played...