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Frozen funds could impact teachers, students and those learning English
WFLX Fox 29 - Florida
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July 22, 2025
At the Guatemalan-Maya Center in Lake Worth Beach, students pack back-to-school supplies for an upcoming fair. Spanish is their primary language. Sindia Lopez worries some of her peers will suffer if programs that help children learn English are...
Christianity Should Radicalize You
Sojourners - Washington D.C.
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July 24, 2025
The verse that radicalized me will be a familiar one to Sojourners readers. It can be found in Matthew 25: “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’”...
Faculty Spanish lessons set to return next year
The Millerton News - New York
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July 23, 2025
AMENIA — The Webutuck Central School District will continue to offer the Spanish for Educators program, which instructs teachers on basic principles of the Spanish language, during the 2025–2026 school year, citing the program’s success during the...
Ronald Adams Sr. and Brayan Neftali Otoniel Canu Joj: Workers’ lives sacrificed for profit
World Socialist Web Site
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July 26, 2025
Elevenlabs AudioNative Player Memorial garden for Ronald Adams Sr. at family home This week, the autopsy report was finally released to the family of Ronald Adams Sr., an autoworker who died on the job in April at Stellantis’ Dundee Engine Plant....
Princess of Girona Awards: A gala to recognize young people who choose "the difficult path"
Ara
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July 23, 2025
BarcelonaPablo Sánchez, Manuel Bouzas, Andrés Dotti, Gabriela Asturias, Antoni Forner-Cuenca, and Valentina Agudelo received the Princess of Girona Award this Wednesday for their commitment to the future of the planet, health, education, and...
Migrants send $200 billion home, some to help criminal cartels
Washington Examiner
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July 23, 2025
Migrants working in the United States send at least $200 billion home every year, including cash to criminal cartels, according to a new analysis of “remittances.”The money collected by legal and illegal migrants went to 134 nations, but most was...
Festival Chapín postponed due to concerns surrounding ICE raids
Los Angeles Times
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July 16, 2025
Organizers of Festival Chapín de Los Angeles have postponed the beloved annual Guatemalan cultural event due to growing concern over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities in the area. Hosted by Chapín Summer Festival Inc., the...
Where in the world is your City Council member? Rash of absences leads to delay
WXXI - New York
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July 23, 2025
A family reunion. A trip to Guatemala. A church function. And an unexplained absence. Taken together, the outside commitments left the Rochester City Council unable to approve borrowing this week to replace lead water lines or buy street...
Private Preschool in Olympia Expands Offerings
Thurston Talk - Washington State
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July 23, 2025
Are you looking for a private school in Olympia for your child that they will love so much they just might come back and teach there, years later? Evergreen Christian School currently has three teachers who are former students, speaking volumes...
Obama-Appointed Judge Temporarily Blocks ICE Arrest of Suspected MS-13 Gang Member
[your]NEWS
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July 23, 2025
Federal ruling delays deportation of Salvadoran illegal migrant tied to major human smuggling operation. By yourNEWS Media Newsroom A federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama has blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement from...
Robert Sietsema Will Never Stop Eating
Hellgate - New York
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July 25, 2025
I meet Robert Sietsema on a sunny afternoon at Veeray da Dhaba, a narrow restaurant in the East Village that he declares serves some of the best Punjabi food in the city. Sietsema should know: For over 35 years now, primarily for the Village Voice...
Southampton Rotary Year End 2025
Saugeen Times
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July 23, 2025
As the 2024–25 Rotary year wraps up, the Southampton Rotary Club is proud to share a story of local generosity with global reach. Over the past year, this small but dedicated club has invested $101,509 in community and international projects —...
LETTER: Cache County’s ICE agreement raises alarms, offers no answers
Cache Valley Daily - Utah
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Cache County has a 287(g) agreement pending, but residents have received no information about its contents. 287(g) agreements allow local law enforcement to collaborate with ICE to enforce federal immigration laws. Created under the 1996 Illegal...
'Shameless pardon quid pro quo': Ghislaine Maxwell spills on 100 people linked to Epstein
Raw Story
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July 26, 2025
The two progressive lawmakers sit on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, with Garcia serving as ranking member and Lee serving as ranking member of the Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee. They reminded Noem that the panel has...
Hockey humiliation
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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July 26, 2025
Editorial Newsday 40 Minutes Ago TT hockey player Teague Marcano. - IN THIS country’s enviable and burgeoning history in the sport of hockey, there are few episodes more humiliating than our failure to appear at the 2025 Pan American Cup in...
‘Don’t be sad’: Alabama father detained by ICE while his 4-year-old battles leukemia
AL.com - Alabama
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July 22, 2025
A man whose 4-year-old daughter is battling leukemia was detained by immigration officials in Birmingham last week. Family members and his attorney are wondering if he will ever see his daughter again. “It was hard witnessing their last goodbye...
Did the voyeur osteopath Torben Hersborg secretly film me too?
The Times
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Returning home this week with a back full of knots after lugging an 80-litre rucksack across Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and New York for six months, I couldn’t wait to book an appointment with Torben, my go-to osteopath for more than a decade. He...
Florida nonprofit furious after video shows man put in chokehold during arrest by FHP and Border Patrol
WSVN 7 - Florida
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July 25, 2025
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) - Members of a nonprofit organization in Palm Beach County are furious about a video that shows a violent arrest made by Florida Highway Patrol troopers and U.S. Border Patrol agents in May. FHP and Border Patrol...
U.S. Pushes Belize to Accept Asylum Seekers Under New Deal
Love FM
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July 26, 2025
While Belize recently signed a memorandum of cooperation with the United States, attention is now focused on a more significant agreement the U.S. is pushing for: a “safe third country” agreement. This accord would allow the U.S. to reroute asylum...
Multicultural Mass draws hundreds for worship, food and dancing
Arlington Catholic Herald - Virginia
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Catholics from across the diocese and beyond filled the pews of the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington for the annual Mass for Multicultural Communities July 18. A Marian procession of more than 50 participants representing a dozen-plus...