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A group of 43 mayors from around the country are asking the Biden administration and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to permanently extend work permits for migrants, citing economic concerns and shelter space. In a letter delivered Monday to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Ur Jaddou, the…
Nearly four dozen city mayors are calling on the Biden administration to extend work permits for migrants, stating that without the measure thousands will lose their jobs.
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — More than $63 billion in remittances were sent to Mexico in 2023, with most of the money arriving from the United States, according to Banxico, Mexico’s central bank. The figure is a 7% hike from the previous year. Remittances are funds sent from abroad by immigrant workers to family or […]
Militants in Indian-controlled Kashmir fired at two workers from the northern state of Punjab, killing one and wounding another, police said Wednesday. Police blamed militants fighting against Indian rule in the disputed region for the attack in Srinagar. Kashmir has witnessed a spate of targeted killings since October 2019, two months after New Delhi stripped the region of its semi-autonomy, removed inherited protections on land and jobs and cracked down on dissent and press freedom.
For most of his life in the United States, Pedro Manzanares, 53, had lived a discreet life in Chicago’s Little Village, one of the city’s vibrant Mexican immigrant neighborhoods. He had declined to denounce the working conditions at El Milagro — one of the nation’s most popular tortilla factories fined by the state in 2022 for “fragrant violations” of state labor law and still under ...