by Amanda Horowitz | Jul 18, 2019 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON – Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan told a House committee Thursday “incendiary and overwrought attacks on the men and women securing our border” are “damaging,” saying border agents are dealing with an “unprecedented...
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by Amanda Horowitz | Jul 17, 2019 | Featured, Living, Topics
WASHINGTON — Robocalls are not just a nuisance, they can have devastating consequences. Unfortunately, Angela Stancik of Houston knows that reality far too well. “Her golden years and the last chapter of her life was taken from her,” Stancik said of her...
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by Apoorva Mittal | Jul 17, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — To counter Iran’s growing influence in the Middle East, the U.S. must maintain a strong diplomatic and military presence in neighboring Iraq, experts from the State Department and the Pentagon said at the Near East subcommittee hearing Tuesday. Over the...
by Matt Reynolds | Jul 16, 2019 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) said Friday that conditions at the Texas border facilities they visited earlier this month were grim and need immediate action. Representatives Ayanna Pressley...
by Ariana Puzzo and Ebony JJ Curry | Jul 16, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Susan Kent Avjian, whose parents are Holocaust survivors, says she refuses to stay silent about immigrant detention facilities at the U.S. southern border because it reminds her of the path that led to the genocide of Jewish Europeans by German Nazis in...
by Sruthi Darbhamulla | Jul 13, 2019 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his deputy, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, announced Thursday a Democratic proposal to end family separations at the border and institute minimum safety and health standards for children held in detention centers....
