Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)

U.S.-Mexico Border Update: DHS leadership and oversight, detention deaths and “warehouses,” border wall in natural areas

Sen. Mullin to replace Noem at DHS as partial shutdown continues. Timeline may slow for detention “warehouse” plan, while in-custody deaths skyrocket. Concerns about oversight of DHS, and about the ...

White House officials and senators meet on DHS shutdown, a small sign of progress

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators met behind closed doors Thursday with White House border czar Tom Homan, a small sign of progress as lawmakers look to end a shutdown of the Department ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

International social workers group rejects measure to expel Israeli union amid pressure from Jewish groups

An international federation of social workers has voted not to expel the Israeli Union of Social Workers following weeks of debate and opposition from Jewish groups over their potential ban. “After ...
Wired

Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE

Workers at the Social Security Administration have been told to share information about in-person appointments with agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, WIRED has learned. “If ICE comes in ...
Reason

Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan Demands Local Minnesota Jails Cooperate with ICE

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, announced that 700 federal officers would be immediately withdrawn from Minneapolis following "unprecedented collaboration" between ...
Houston Chronicle

Trump's border crackdown forces border nonprofit to cut 148 jobs

Compass Connections, the nonprofit that runs emergency shelters in the Rio Grande Valley, is planning to lay off 148 workers at its Harlingen facility at the end of March—and it's pointing squarely at ...
WGNO

Migrants disguised as construction workers attempt to blend in at border wall work site

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — Two migrants attempted to enter the U.S. by dressing up as construction workers to try to blend with crews in El Paso, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. Several ...
GameSpot

This Hotel Worker’s Animal Crossing Designs Will Make You Rethink Your Rooms

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Running a hotel isn't an easy business--now imagine working at one all day and then going home to Animal Crossing: New Horizons to do more ...
Jezebel

Maybe It Is Possible to Be Too Visibly a Nazi for the Trump Administration?

Less than 24 hours ago, as I wrote about President Donald Trump’s evolving stance on the Border Patrol execution of American citizen Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, I said the following: The most absurd ...
KUOW

Seattle hospital workers mourn Alex Pretti, nurse killed by Border Patrol in Minneapolis

Dozens of nurses and staff at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center held a vigil Monday evening for Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old man shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday during ongoing protests ...
WGBH

Trump sends border czar to Minnesota. And, trial over social media addiction begins

The Trump administration has replaced Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol official who was the public face of immigration operations in Minnesota, with Border Czar Tom Homan. Bovino returns to his previous ...