Biden admin has now been enforcing anti-asylum Title 42 policy longer than previous admin

One-hundred organizations have plead with the Biden administration to stop its misuse of the debunked Title 42 policy, which they said in their Feb. 2 letter has deported asylum-seekers back to …

Republicans see masks and vaccines as stifling freedom, but it's actually the best way to restore it

A lot of people have been talking, often quite loudly, about vaccine mandates and freedom. Most of those voices have come from the right, and have attacked mandates as restricting freedom. A few …

Miami landlords are raising rents and evicting vulnerable tenants as omicron surges

This story was originally published at Prism.

Two days before Christmas last year, Rachel Rubí and her mother, Maria Rubí, learned their rent would increase by 65% beginning February 2022. The two …

Immigrant communities won’t benefit from vaccine availability without language accessibility

by Ray Levy Uyeda

This article was originally published at Prism

In February 2020, Lali Moheno learned a mysterious virus was making its way through communities of farmworkers in Tulare County, the …

ICE blocked from re-detaining immigrants freed from two California facilities due to pandemic

Detained immigrants and their advocates scored a major court victory this week, reaching a “groundbreaking” settlement in a lawsuit filed nearly two years ago over unsafe pandemic conditions.

Under an …

Following blowback from families and lawmakers, New Jersey to reinstate fund for excluded workers

Following public blowback from the state’s immigrant families and Latino lawmakers, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said on Thursday that he would restore millions of dollars in emergency relief for …

Schools and everyone in them are just trying not to drown in the omicron wave

The COVID-19 moralizers are still at it, convinced they can get the virus to care that they think life should go back to what it was two years ago. But conditions in schools—as in hospitals—continue …

Immigrant applicants are in limbo because their paperwork is stuck in a cave. No, really

Immigration attorney Susan Cohen tells The Wall Street Journal that she represents a married Boston couple (both have opted to keep their names private) who filed their citizenship applications in …

Nearly 1,000 faith leaders and immigration groups urge Biden 'to reverse course' on ICE detention

Nearly 1,000 faith leaders and immigrant rights groups are calling on the Biden administration to halt its expansion of the immigration detention system, writing they “are disturbed by several recent …

San Diego's wretched Otay Mesa immigration prison is seeing near-record COVID-19 cases

When it comes to COVID-19, private prison profiteer CoreCivic’s San Diego immigration prison was at one point the worst hit site in the nation, reporting 98 confirmed cases among detained immigrants …

Months after releasing remaining immigrant, California jail is once again locking people up for ICE

Immigrants and their advocates won a major victory last fall, following the release of Ricardo Vasquez Cruz from a northern California jail last October. Vasquez Cruz had been the remaining immigrant …

Where are the hot takes on schools in Alabama, Kansas, and Indiana closing due to COVID-19?

Staffing shortages have forced more school closures around the country in recent days, and the locations of some of those schools should give pause to the flood of hot-takers wanting to blame it on …

Abortion care mutual aid funds see spike in calls as omicron surges

This article was originally published at Prism

At a time when abortion care providers are already overburdened, clinics across the country are struggling to operate amid staffing shortages caused by …

Majority of voters want Biden admin to stop pursuing new private immigration detention contracts

New polling finds that an overwhelming number of voters oppose the Biden administration’s expansion of private immigration detention contracts. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and …

Fake COVID-19 testing sites are scamming vulnerable communities across the country

by Sravya Tadepalli

This article was originally published at Prism

When Houston resident Paul Middendorf woke up congested one early morning this month, he decided to get tested for COVID-19. He found …

Teachers and students fight for remote learning and better safety precautions at school

This article was originally published at Prism

When Nora Flanagan tried logging on to Google Classroom on Jan. 5 to teach her high school English students remotely, she found that she was locked out …

Biden admin doesn't have to repeat past mistakes. It should release immigrants amid omicron surge

The number of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 while in unnecessary federal immigration detention continues to skyrocket. 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported 900 confirmed …

'Crisis in Central America is urgent': Democrats ask Biden admin to extend deportation protections

Citing “extreme drought conditions” and “social and economic crises exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic,” Robert Menendez leads more than 30 senators in calling on the Biden administration to extend …

Hot takes on remote schooling are all over the place, but most of them miss the point

The debate over whether schools should be in-person or remote is reaching new levels of willful ridiculousness. Recent days have seen another round of “I am absolutely, I promise, really a liberal, …

CDC’s decision to cut quarantine time in half concerns already overwhelmed health care professionals

When Cherriese Thompson heard the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) decision last week to cut quarantine time down from 10 days to five days, she was upset. At a time when …