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Nonprofit organizations push back on ICE detention facility increases 1 month 4 days 24 minutes ago Wednesday, March 10 2021 Mar 10, 2021 March 10, 2021 10:29 PM March 10, 2021 in News - Local Gov. Greg Abbott's calls to increase ICE detention facilities are facing pushback. Some Valley residents started a letter-writing campaign to U.S. Rep Filemon Vela (D-Brownsville).  They want all ICE detainees to be released due to COVID-19 risks.  In 2020, 33-year-old Hilder Lainez-Alvarez said he was caught illegally crossing the border and was put in ICE custody.  Having severe asthma, Lainez-Alva...

Ivory Coast Arrests 4 for Trafficking Children to Cocoa Growers Feb 07 2021, 4:03 PM February 07 2021, 3:31 PM February 07 2021, 4:03 PM (Bloomberg) -- Ivory Coast police arrested four alleged child traffickers and rescued 19 children suspected of being transported to work on cocoa plantations in the West African nation. (Bloomberg) -- Ivory Coast police arrested four alleged child traffickers and rescued 19 children suspected of being transported to work on cocoa plantations in the West African nation. The police operation took place during the transportation of the children -- said to be fr...

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Experts weigh in on private detention centers following Biden's executive order 2 months 1 week 4 days ago Monday, February 01 2021 Feb 1, 2021 February 01, 2021 3:19 PM February 01, 2021 in News - Local Share: Last year, when 33-year-old Hilder Lainez-Alvarez was arrested after crossing the border illegally, he was taken to the El Valle Detention Center in Raymondville, then the ICE Detention Center in Port Isabel. The Nicaraguan native said that both detention centers were overcrowded, and that he contracted COVID-19 at the El Valle Detention Center. Lainez-Alvarez says since he has severe ...

Isis Almeida and Leanne de Bassompierre, Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) -- Nobody is suffering more from a global chocolate standoff than the Ivory Coast cocoa farmer. Less than two years after the top cocoa producer teamed up with neighboring Ghana to force companies from Hershey Co. to Nestle SA to pay more for their beans, the attempt to exert control over prices is backfiring. Buyers are refusing to pay up, beans are piling in warehouses upcountry and farmers are so desperate that some even slept outside the offices of Ivory Coast’s cocoa regulator demanding action. “We have suffere...