All posts tagged "Illegalimmigration"

MIAMI — A new state immigration law could worsen labor shortages in South Florida’s agricultural industry, a sector that heavily relies on migrant labor and struggles to find domestic workers, according to growers, immigrant workers and farmworker advocates. María Vázquez, a Mexican nursery worker in Homestead, said that over the last year she has witnessed colleagues and community members leave South Miami-Dade County, a region that grows warm-weather plants, fruits, and vegetables that don’t grow in most of the rest of the country. “Many people here risk their lives crossing the desert to ge......

Jose Ruben Hernandez Gomez hopes a new grievance database recently launched by the ACLU Foundation of Northern California for the state’s six immigration detention centers — including three in the Central Valley — will help provide “more of a concrete proof ... of how unsafe these detention centers are.” Gomez, 33, said he was one of four hunger strikers who were forcibly removed from the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Bakersfield in March amid the strike, and transferred to El Paso, Texas. Gomez spent a week in Texas before being transferred back to the Central Valley, and was released f......

As the Biden administration prepares to lift a pandemic-era rule that could bring a surge of migrants to the southwest border, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed an immigration legislative package that underscores the political tensions between the White House and the Republican governor as he prepares to run for president. With the new piece of legislation, DeSantis said Florida will be cracking down on undocumented migrant labor, ending community-funded programs that give undocumented immigrants identification cards and toughening penalties against those who transport undocumented immigra......

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a bill Monday creating a state-level human smuggling crime, which supporters said would help law enforcement prosecute those transporting undocumented immigrants. But the Democratic governor said the legislation was the product of a “rushed process” that could lead to unintended problems. The veto puts her at odds with most of the Legislature: the measure passed with veto-proof majorities in both the House and Senate. “I agree immigration issues need to be addressed, but this bill will have unintended consequences, from decimating our agriculture workforce to all......

SEATTLE — The Department of Justice has settled a claim filed by a Des Moines, Washington, man who was arrested and detained by immigration agents in 2017 despite his protected status as a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status. The settlement does not involve a payout to 29-year-old Daniel Ramirez Medina, but requires U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to issue him a four-year “stay of removal” from the United States, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. During that time, Ramirez Medina can apply for other immigration status or relief ......

SAN DIEGO — Kateryna, a 22-year-old Ukrainian woman, experienced firsthand how quickly the U.S. government can change the way it processes people who are fleeing for their lives when there is the political will to do so. She was in Mexico performing with Nikolas Constantine, her boyfriend and ballroom dance partner, when Russia invaded her country. The couple realized that Kateryna could not return to Ukraine. Constantine is a U.S. citizen, so they decided to head for his home in the Los Angeles area. But when the pair, along with Constantine's mother, tried to cross north in a car from Tijuan......