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Trump administration to release some migrants caught along southern border into South Florida
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 14 Comments • 6 years ago
MIAMI – The Trump administration is preparing to release hundreds of asylum-seeking migrants caught along the southern border into Florida's Broward and Palm Beach counties, with no apparent plan to house, feed or care for them, according to local officials who have been briefed on the plans....
ICE to hire contractor to transport 225,000 migrants to shelters across the US
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 81 Comments • 1 Like • 6 years ago
The Trump administration is looking to hire a private contractor that will be responsible for transporting approximately 225,000 migrant children and families to shelters across the country over the next five years as they wait for their asylum claims to be processed. ICE (the federal...
‘It’s a blessing’: 241 students graduate from Diné College
Via: 1stwarrior • Anishinaabe - The First People • 12 Comments • 6 years ago
Henrietta Kinsel’s story is not much different from other community college students – she’s a single mother of three and worked for a few years before deciding to go back to school. These facts are enough of an excuse to keep working adults from even thinking about pursuing higher education....
Native American student plans to wear cap adorned with sacred eagle feather despite district's threat to confiscate
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 37 Comments • 5 Likes • 6 years ago
“Valley Vista High School senior LaRissa Waln plans to wear her cap decorated with sacred beads and a federally protected eagle feather, even if it...”
PHOENIX — For LaRissa Waln, Thursday afternoon’s graduation ceremony at State Farm Stadium is a source of much anticipation. The 17-year-old senior at Valley Vista High School—who is Native American—is fighting for her right to wear Native beads and a sacred eagle feather on her cap. It’s...
Chehalis Tribe Earns Approval to Prosecute Non-Native Domestic Violence Offenders
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 2 Likes • 6 years ago
“JUSTICE: Tribe Meets Department of Justice Requirements, Rewrote Criminal Code to Qualify for New rights”
For decades, a loophole in federal law has made it difficult for Native Americans to seek justice for many crimes on tribal lands. A 1978 Supreme Court ruling found that tribal courts did not have jurisdiction to prosecute non-natives, meaning that tribes could do little about crimes committed...
Amazon Tribe Wins Lawsuit, Blocks Big Oil’s Bid To Destroy Millions Of Acres Of Rainforest
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 3 Likes • 6 years ago
In a landmark victory, the Waorani people of Pastaza, an indigenous tribe from the Ecuadorian Amazon, successfully protected half a million acres of their ancestral territory in the Amazon rainforest from being mined for oil drilling by Big Oil companies. A three-judge panel of the Pastaza...
Are lawmakers ‘supercitizens’? Constitutional question could delay Rep. Chris Collins case
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 6 years ago
“Collins accused of securities fraud related to his investment in a biotech company”
A question over the legal privileges granted to members of Congress threatens to delay the insider trading case against Rep. Chris Collins. The New York Republican faces trial in February on 11 felony charges stemming from millions of dollars he poured into an Australian biotech company, Innate...
Feds: Immigration top US crime, one-third of all sentencings
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 2 Likes • 6 years ago
Immigration crime, virtually all involving illegal male, Hispanic immigrants, was the top offense in federal courts last year, according to the United States Sentencing Commission. In its just-released annual report, the commission said that immigration crimes accounted for 34.4% of all...
Cartels ‘kicking our butts’ in New Mexico, as state left without checkpoints
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 2 Likes • 6 years ago
What happens when our government takes down its interior checkpoints north of the border in New Mexico? Well, the cartels, with the drug and human smuggling, are “kicking our butts,” according to one local official. In an interview with CR, Couy Griffin, the chairman of the Otero County, New...
Reaction to arguments against the 2019 Reauthorization to the Violence Against Women Act
Via: 1stwarrior • Op/Ed • 1 Comments • 1 Like • 6 years ago
“Representatives have sent a message loud and clear that when Natives are beaten, raped, or murdered the perpetrators should not be held to account”
On March 13, 2019, House Republicans tried to repeal a crucial provision in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) which was included in the 2013 reauthorization of the Act and would be further expanded in the current reauthorization bill. This political move was terrifying to Natives throughout...