by Anabel Mendoza | Jun 30, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
The Trump administration’s ongoing attacks on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are an issue of “partisan politicization,” said Thomas Saenz, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund on Monday. “What we...
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by Amy Sokolow | Jun 29, 2020 | Featured, Politics
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he will refocus hiring standards for the federal government on “merit” by assessing skills rather than college degrees so that more workers have a shot at the millions of federal jobs. The order states that the...
by Hannah Farrow | Jun 27, 2020 | Featured, Politics
Along with lions, tigers and bears, Congress may make monkey trading illegal across state borders. The Captive Primate Safety Act was introduced during the U.S. House Water, Oceans, and Wildlife hearing in Washington on Thursday morning. It aims to amend the Lacey Act...
by Arnab Mondal | Jun 26, 2020 | Featured, National Security
The Air Force does not have enough pilots and operators to meet its staffing targets for unmanned aircrafts, causing mental and physical health problems for existing personnel, a Government Accountability Office report said. Since 9/11, there has been a...
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by Shirin Ali | Jun 26, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
Several Democratic senators, including former presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, grilled Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan on reports that unaccompanied migrant children are not being appropriately screened to determine if they are...
by Nicole Girten | Jun 26, 2020 | Featured, Politics
U.S. Rep. Ross Spano emphasized holding China accountable for the spread of COVID-19 during a telephone town hall Thursday night. “We’ve had 127,000 folks in our nation that now have died,” Spano said in response to a caller from Lakeland. “In large part it’s a result...
