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Eddie Chavez Calderon lives his life two years at a time. The Arizona Jews for Justice’s campaign director’s status as a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is reevaluated on a two-year cycle. “The DACA system is basically a Band-Aid that temporarily protects us. And that really sucks,” he said. Chavez Calderon is one of more than 640,000 DACA recipients. The program was implemented during former President Barack Obama’s administration and al...

Sacramento, Calif., Dec 10, 2019 / 03:31 am (CNA).- A small case study on the safety of the abortion pill reversal procedure that was cut short due to safety concerns does not accurately represent the safety and efficacy of the procedure to the public, a pro-life group has said. “Pro-abortion researchers would rather continue to mislead women about the real risks of the abortion pill regimen Mifeprex than protect them from the risks of this dangerous drug,” Dr. Tara Sander Lee, senior fello...

Program/Project Management Job in Costa Rica about Camp Coordination and Camp Management and Coordination, requiring 5-9 years of experience, from IOM; closing on 12 Apr 2021

The International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) March 17, 2021 The Scalabrini International Migration Network took part in this year’s Global Forum on Migration and Development Summit. In this article, SIMN executive director Fr. Jairo Guidini and Development Associate Sharon Granados Mahato discuss the organization’s participation and how they hope civil society actors will grasp the opportunity offered by the COVID-19 pandemic to improve migration policies. “The COVID-19 crisis h...

Program/Project Management Job in Switzerland about Camp Coordination and Camp Management and Protection and Human Rights, requiring 5-9 years of experience, from IOM; closing on 25 Mar 2021

Bidens bungled claims about the Hispanic population Salvador Rizzo, The Washington Post March 4, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail "The vast majority of the people, the 11 million undocumented, theyre not Hispanics. Theyre people who came on a visa, [were] able to buy a ticket to get on a plane and didnt go home. They didnt come across the Rio Grande and swim." - President Biden, in a CNN town hall in Milwaukee, Feb. 16 "As you know, the fastest-growing population in the United States is Hispanic. An...

For over a year, we have been tested by the COVID-19 pandemic. During this trying time, many thousands of Utahns are working hard on the front lines as essential workers, serving in critical industries like health care, agriculture and working at the grocery store.

Beth Bailey has a provocatively titled and incomplete piece at The Federalistabout illegal immigration and crime. Bailey laments the lack of data on illegal immigration and crime while linking to some of our research that estimates illegal immigrant incarceration rates and ignoring excellent criminal conviction and arrest data from Texas that show remarkably low rates of criminality. Bailey does make an excellent point: There aren’t enough criminal data on illegal immigrants. There are many ...

New terminology The bill would replace the term “alien” in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) with the term “noncitizen.” ADVERTISEMENT According to UC Davis professor Kevin Johnson, the use of the term “alien” helps to reinforce and strengthen nativist sentiment toward new immigrant groups, which in turn influences responses to immigration and human rights issues.  He may be right, but should Congress be changing the terms in the INA to ensure that our immigration laws are...

Program/Project Management Job in Australia about Climate Change and Environment and Protection and Human Rights, requiring 3-4 years of experience, from IOM; closing on 08 Mar 2021