immigration
Immigration court backlog tops 650,000
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During the first two months of Fiscal Year 2018, the Immigration Court number of pending cases climbed by an additional 30,000.
Watchdog Watch
‘No Taxpayer Dollars’ for coaches at the University of Illinois? It’s a lie
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While taxpayer money doesn’t technically go to pay the coaches’ actual salary lines, taxpayer money does pay for the salary packages for most every UI coach, trainer, and full-time athletic department staff member. That’s because UI athletic department employees are UI employees, so they receive the same “standard university benefits” as all other UI employees.
And benefits for UI employees – health, dental, etc. – are paid for by the state of Illinois. In other words, the taxpayers.
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Watchdog Watch
“We are rationing the food”: the humanitarian crisis devastates isolated communities in the mountainous rural region
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The federal, national and municipal governments have still not cleared the way into at least nine neighborhoods in Utuado, the third largest municipality in the Island.
Watchdog Watch
María’s dead in Puerto Rico are underreported
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The fatalities related to circumstances created by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico are still mounting with each passing day, and official numbers are not counting patients who are not receiving dialysis, oxygen and other essential services,
Watchdog Watch
Unknown number and whereabouts of arrested for curfew alleged violations
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Although the government has confirmed there are people in jail for allegedly committing serious crimes during the curfew, no government official has been able to say how many and where they are.
Labor
A lawyer’s weapon against farm worker complaints: Deportation
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Fair Warning | As an attorney representing California Central Valley farmers and labor contractors who rely heavily on undocumented workers, Anthony Raimondo has become widely known for performing a sort of magic trick. He can sometimes make legal complaints against his clients – and the people who file them – disappear.
Labor
No sanctuary, fewer farmhands: Coping with the Trump agenda in America’s Dairyland
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In Milwaukee County, the debate over ‘sanctuary cities’ continues, while in rural Wisconsin, informal networks form to help immigrants avoid deportation
Watchdog Watch
Despite hazards, push to open public roads to off-road vehicles in high gear
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ATVs are common in farming operations. As Fair Warning reports, officials in small towns and rural areas around the country, at the urging of riding enthusiasts, have been approving the use of ATVs — and other off-road machines known as recreational off-highway vehicles, or ROVs — on public roadways. Safety advocates have pushed back, but they are losing more fights than they win.
Watchdog Watch
Controversial criminal interrogation technique suspected of producing false confessions under fire
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One woman recounts her story of a confession to a crime she says she did not commit in this IowaWatch investigation into a controversial, coercive police investigation tool.