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Photo: AP Another day, another nauseating peek into the hellish, unfeeling bureaucracy our country has created for undocumented parents and their children. The latest glimpse comes from a story in the Arizona Daily Star, which reported on Thursday about Operation Streamline, a fast-track program to prosecute undocumented people for crossing the border. The report includes this…
WASHINGTON ― Federal immigration authorities arrested a 22-year-old woman in Jackson, Mississippi, on Wednesday shortly after she spoke to the media about the detention of her family. Law enforcement had initially declined to arrest Daniela Vargas, who was previously granted deportation reprieve under the Obama administration’s deferred action program. On Feb. 15, Vargas was half-asleep…
NEW YORK — Immigration officials arrested 41 undocumented people last week in the New York City area, 38 of whom had criminal convictions, including residents from the North Shore of Staten Island, Bushwick and Elmhurst, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and advocates. The raids were part of “routine, daily targeted operations to arrest criminal aliens and…