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Leah Zallman spent much of her career helping immigrants through her research. In 2022, a center in her name opened and is carrying on her legacy.

Wicked Local As local residents with Haitian roots watch the political crisis unfold from afar, they are asking American friends and neighbors not to rush to judgment about Haiti and allow it time to come to terms with the assassination of the president Jovenel Moïse on July 7, and the unrest it engendered. “My body and mind could not accept that this happened,” said Jeantilus Geddis, a teacher at the Immigrant Learning Center in Malden. “This is a crime that is beyond hatred, beyond politics. Even if you don’t like the president, it is not right to kill the president.”

Print As someone who calls San Diego home, I’m paying close attention to the immigration crisis. The crisis now has a face — hundreds of faces, really — attached to it. Last weekend, 500 unaccompanied migrant girls, ages 13-17, arrived in San Diego. For the next few months, they will call the convention center home. Most of the girls come from Mexico and the Central American countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. They were sent to San Diego from Border Patrol facilities in Texas and Arizona — a small fraction of the more than 9,300 minors apprehended by U.S. officials in Fe...

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Demand is high, but immigration limitations are slowing the process. • 7 min read Nurse delivers powerfully grim plea after watching hospital fill with COVID patients Lacie Gooch, a COVID ICU nurse at Nebraska Medicine took to Twitter to ask people to take the pandemic seriously as cases surge.Mark Lambie via USA Today Network As hospitals brace for the holidays amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, staffing shortages in U.S. hospitals have created a higher-than-normal demand for international nurses -- but ...