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‘Just because we’re undocumented does not mean we’re worth less than other people’: Will undocumented immigrants get COVID-19 vaccines under Biden? MarketWatch 1/23/2021 © pau barrena/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Undocumented immigrants in the U.S. will be a critical population to reach with COVID-19 vaccines, advocates and experts say, and public-health officials will first have to knock down barriers to access. Many immigrants may also be concerned about the Trump administrat...

Experts anticipate several challenges to vaccinating undocumented immigrants.

Stateless man avoids deportation to Haiti Arelis R. Hernández, The Washington Post Jan. 20, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail For the second time in his stateless life, Paul Pierrilus faced the possibility this week of being deported to a country that he has never known, that he has never lived in and that has never recognized him. The 40-year-old New York man was minutes away from boarding one of the last deportation flights of the Trump administration before a relentless international effort by his...

Trump’s actions are “a political act, not a humanitarian one,” said Juan Escalante, a Venezuelan activist based in Florida. “It is almost like a gift to Florida’s Republican Party in order to get votes,” said Escalante, who arrived in the United States in 2000. His parents fled Venezuela after the late President Hugo Chávez won the election.

Trump On Last Day In Office Blocks Deportation Of 1,45, 000 Venezuelans Trump cited the “deteriorative condition” within Venezuela that constitutes a national security threat as the basis for his decision. AP/PTI Associated Press (AP) 2021-01-20T14:13:29+05:30 Trump On Last Day In Office Blocks Deportation Of 1,45, 000 Venezuelans outlookindia.com 2021-01-20T14:16:23+05:30 Also read With the clock winding down on his term, U.S. President Donald Trump shielded ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — With the clock winding down on his term, U.S. President...

Daniel McNeil 1 POSTS 0 COMMENTS Daniel McNeil is an award-winning writer and Professor whose work brings together History, Diaspora Studies, Cultural Studies, and other fields of inquiry to map the movement of people and ideas within, across, against and outside the nation-state. Following the publication of McNeil’s Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic – a book that disrupts the regimes o...

President Donald Trump tours a section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, in Alamo, Texas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Do laws still matter? As an immigrant from Argentina, having survived our country’s “Dirty War” of the 1970s by fleeing to the United States, I am sensitive to the warning signs of lawlessness and inhumanity among government officials. I also know how long it can take to recover from this lawlessness. The Grandmothers of the Plaza del Mayo are still locat...

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Workers inside a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, pork processing plant wear protective gear and are separated by plastic partitions as they carve up meat. (Photo courtesy Smithfield Foods via AP) Last week Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts raised eyebrows around the country when he told local reporters that undocumented workers in Nebraska’s meat packing industry would not be included in its vaccination program because “you’re supposed to be a legal resident of the country to be able to be working ...