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Immigration News Today: Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Record So Far — High Arrests, Low Deportations
Documented - New York
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July 11, 2025
Just have a minute? Here are the top stories you need to know about immigration. This summary was featured in Documented’s Early Arrival newsletter. You can subscribe to receive it in your inbox three times per week here. Washington, D.C....
Haitian high school student refugee released from ICE detention
WABC ABC 7 - New York
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July 10, 2025
PEARL RIVER, New York (WABC) -- Alan Junior Pierre, a refugee from Haiti studying at Spring Valley High School in Pearl River, NY, has now been released from ICE detention. The 20-year-old asylum seeker was taken into custody after a routine...
Haiti: Setback for LGBT+ rights in the Caribbean
Erasing 76 Crimes
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July 10, 2025
New penal code allows anti-LGBT+ discrimination without penalty Haiti has adopted a new penal code that strips LGBT+ people of protections against discrimination that they would have enjoyed under the previous draft of the law. Adoption of the new...
A Florida brunch aims to help Haiti’s last childhood cancer Hospital
Haitian Times
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July 11, 2025
Overview: The Haitian Foundation Against Childhood Cancer (FHACI) is hosting a fundraising brunch on July 13 to support Saint-Damien Pediatric Hospital, Haiti’s only pediatric oncology unit still operating. The Tabarre-based hospital provides free...
With expired work permits, couple who fled Haiti leans on Texas church that brought them here
NBC News
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July 11, 2025
The couple are surviving off savings and the support of their small rural church community, some members of whom voted for President Donald Trump. The same church helped connect them to an immigration attorney as they consider seeking asylum....
Immigrant Media: Serving Communities at a Critical Moment
Nieman Reports
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July 9, 2025
S. Mitra Kalita is the co-founder of Epicenter NYC, an online publication that started during the COVID-19 pandemic to bring news and information to the immigrant-heavy population of Queens, N.Y. The site continues to provide resources and local...
NJ influencers, Brazilian beatboxers: How nuns took over pop culture
The North Jersey Record - New Jersey
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It was the beatbox heard round the world. In May, a pair of Brazilian nuns were on a local Catholic TV show discussing a vocational retreat when it happened. Suddenly, the duo — in matching powder-blue skirts and white habits — broke into a joyous...
Haiti’s women drive economic revival at HAIFEX entrepreneurship fair
Haitian Times
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July 9, 2025
Overview: Held in Pétion-Ville on July 5–6, 2025, the inaugural HAIFEX Women’s Entrepreneurship Fair showcased nearly 70 Haitian women entrepreneurs blending tradition and innovation. From karabela garments and vèvè-inspired accessories to spice...
Asylum claims in Canada soaring as US tightens immigration policies
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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July 11, 2025
A growing number of migrants in the U.S. are heading north to seek asylum, even as Canada adopts increasingly restrictive immigration policies of its own. During the first six days of July, Canadian officials at the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle border...
Haitian Immigrants In Springfield Stay Resilient Amid Trump’s Deportation Threat
StratNews Global
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July 9, 2025
With their newborn son in tow, Michelet and his wife visited the St. Vincent de Paul Community Center in Springfield, Ohio, last week seeking assistance from its volunteers. Their goal was to apply for a U.S. passport for their baby — a document...
Immigration crackdown: Trump revoking TPS for Hondurans, Nicaraguans
The Palm Beach Post - Florida
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The Trump administration is ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Hondurans and Nicaraguans, potentially affecting 76,000 people. TPS allows recipients to live and work in the U.S. due to unsafe conditions in their home countries. Some have...
Immigration News Today: Federal Bill Would Force ICE Agents to ID Themselves, Ban Most Masks
Documented - New York
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July 9, 2025
Just have a minute? Here are the top stories you need to know about immigration. This summary was featured in Documented’s Early Arrival newsletter. You can subscribe to receive it in your inbox three times per week here. Washington, D.C. Bill...
Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, stand firm as Trump threatens deportation
NBC News
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July 9, 2025
Accompanied by their newborn son, Michelet and his wife arrived at the St. Vincent de Paul Community Center in Springfield, Ohio, last week looking for help from the non-profit’s volunteers. They wanted to apply for a valuable document for the...
Haitian Chancellor received by the President of Taiwan (Republic of China)
Haiti Libre
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Haiti - Politic : Haitian Chancellor received by the President of Taiwan (Republic of China) 09/07/2025 09:32:28 On Tuesday, July 8, 2025, Jean-Victor Harvel Jean-Baptiste, Haitian Minister of Foreign Affairs, who was visiting Taiwan from July 7...
Haiti condemns arson attack on iconic Hotel Oloffson
Dominican Today
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July 9, 2025
Haiti.- The Haitian government has condemned the destruction of the iconic Hotel Oloffson as an “intolerable act” after armed gangs set it ablaze over the weekend. The hotel, a historic landmark in Port-au-Prince known for its cultural and...
Ohio Haitians Hopeful For New Start Amid TPS Cancellation While Others Live Fearfully
Black Enterprise
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July 10, 2025
TPS was instated following a devastating earthquake in 2010 and extended numerous times, most recently by the Biden-Harris administration amid the growing gang violence and political turmoil. The same Haitian immigrants from Ohio who were attacked...
‘Once the church of presidents … now an engine of resistance’
Baptist News Global
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July 10, 2025
Acknowledging a history marked by power in high places that included 54 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence and 11 presidents including George Washington, the top officer of the Episcopal Church in the United States declared the...
Spring Valley community leaders, Rep. Lawler, oppose TPS revocation and Haiti travel ban
News 12 Westchester - New York
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Rep. Mike Lawler, alongside many of the leaders in the Spring Valley community, voiced their opposition Thursday afternoon to temporary protection status, also known as TPS, being revoked for Haitian refugees, as well as Haiti being on the travel...
Haiti calls for more support
Jamaica Observer
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July 9, 2025
Laurent Saint-Cyr (right), an advisor of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council, addressing journalists at a media briefing marking the end of the 49th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community at...
Lawler to Haitians facing deportation: Get status straightened out now
The Journal News - New York
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For hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the U.S. and thousands in Rockland, permission to stay in the U.S. ends this fall. "The situation on the ground (in Haiti) is too dangerous, not just for Americans but for Haitians," said Lawler, noting...