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Lending Startup Can't Dodge Suit Over Denying Loans to Immigrants – Courthouse News Service

A federal judge denied a financial technology startup’s motions to compel arbitration and dismiss a class action brought by immigrants who were denied loans and other credit services. OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — An online lending startup that has grown exponentially in recent years cannot avoid a class action claiming it wrongly denied loans and other services to certain noncitizens based on their immigration status, a federal judge ruled Monday. San Francisco-based startup Social Finance Inc., ...
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UNHCR ramps up support for Mexico amid mounting asylum applications

UNHCR This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Aikaterini Kitidi – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. A Salvadoran mother talks to a UNHCR staff member at a registration centre in southern Mexico. © UNHCR/Pierre-Marc Rene UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is supporting Mexico to strengthen and expand its asylum procedures, amid a sharp increase in the number of people seeking asylum in the country. In the fi...
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Green Shoots of Hope, Part Two – Youth Climate Leaders in the Americas

By Sarah C. Beasley Canadian Youth Climate Leaders. From davidsuzuki.org One of the Earth’s most precious resources are youth leaders from many countries who are mobilizing to vocally share their demands regarding climate change. This diverse group includes Indigenous climate activists, who are rallying and protesting for their very survival and cultural future. “Indigenous” means produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environments. It a...
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UWGB students start Spanish-language podcast to highlight Northeast Wisconsin's Latino community

and last updated 2021-04-12 00:43:25-04 GREEN BAY (NBC 26) — Three students at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay (UWGB) have recently started a podcast highlighting members of Northeast Wisconsin’s Latino community. Meet the students involved with this podcast: Kelly Lamas is a junior double majoring in Spanish and social work with an emphasis in child welfare. Valerie Juarez Valerie Juarez Valerie Juarez The students say they were initially approached by one of their profess...
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Cartel Operatives Criticize DEA Map of Cartel Influence in the US

Reuters The Drug Enforcement Administrations latest report on illicit drugs and drug trafficking details what the agency says is cartel influence in the US. Security experts and cartel operatives in Mexico dispute the DEAs depiction, however, arguing the links are more tenuous than the DEA describes them.  Ciudad Juarez, MEXICO — The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently released its annual National Drug Threat Assessment, in which it maps out the st...
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A War That Wasn't: Why America And France Almost Fought Over Mexico

Ulysses S. Grant was none to pleased with French presence in Mexico.  Heres What You Need to Remember: The withdrawal of French forces soon led to the fall of Maximilian’s cardboard government. In June 1867, Juarez and the nationalists captured the Austrian pretender and, despite a last second appeal for mercy from the American government, executed Maximilian before a peasant firing squad. The continued presence of a handpicked French puppet emperor in Mexico, which had so worried the Linco...
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CRS: 'Mexican Cartels Remain the Primary Source of Heroin and Fentanyl Trafficking Into the United States'

A report published by the Congressional Research Service on April 2 concluded that Mexican drug cartels have “exploited” the COVID-19 pandemic and “remain the primary source of heroin and fentanyl trafficking into the United States.”
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