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For anyone who hasn't heard about this yet: ICE showed up at the front door of Dr. Ann Lawani in Lodi, California, while she was still in her pajamas, shackled her at the wrists, waist, and ankles, and shipped her all the way to a detention center in Louisiana.
She’s a frontline nurse who worked through the worst of COVID, directs the master's nursing program at the University of San Francisco (overseeing 230+ nursing students), and takes care of her 83-year-old dad.
When her family and lawyer tried to find out where she was taken, ICE’s online locator came back with "0 results." It turns out ICE quietly changed its policy the day before her arrest to stop listing thousands of detainees in the public database, so her family had no idea where she was for days while she was bounced from Stockton to Bakersfield to El Paso to Louisiana.
DHS put out a statement claiming she had a 2013 removal order, but they conveniently left out that on the *exact same day* in 2013, an immigration judge granted her Withholding of Removal blocking her deportation to Nigeria because she faced persecution there.
She has zero criminal record, has checked in with ICE for 13 years, and has a valid federal work permit through 2029. Because they legally can't send her to Nigeria, Rep. Josh Harder says ICE has been trying to quietly deport her to an undisclosed third country behind her lawyer's back.
Full write-up and breakdown of what happened here:
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Mother loses baby after ICE hits her—pushes her to ground.
She was 7 months pregnant.
"They pushed me hard and hit my arms," she said.
"My belly was already big."
Hospitalized days later—when doctors told her unborn son was already dead.
"The baby received overload of stress the doctors told me."
Now the family is seeking help from the Honduran government to bury the baby.
While his father remains detained for allegedly crossing the border illegally.
He was the sole provider for his wife—and 5 kids.
Incident occurred near Austin, Texas.
Posting first full length, English translated, and credited video here to help raise awareness. Go to Noticias Telemundo for Spanish language reporting by Francisco Cuevas.
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Like she posted this a while ago and im not saying everyone should forgive her, and im not saying she is perfect, and i completely understand why people still hate her or dont support her. But this really spoke to me as someone who made fucked up cringe awful mistakes in the depths of my own pain, and the struggle it has been to be a better person and show people that you can change. Im not trying to be a Trisha martyr. I understand the hatred of her. But i also see her as a person and that pain resonates with me a lot.
Trisha has been so outwardly apologetic for all her past bullshit, she struggled so much in life with addiction and trauma and she has talked about how that contributed to her acting out in unacceptable ways, and shows so much remorse all the time for her past. I really do feel like she is trying so hard to be a better person, and seeing another sex worker who experienced so much trauma now entering a part of her life where she can heal and start to atone for mistakes shes made really speaks to me. Obviously i cant be the one to decide if shes forgiven lol but i really do find myself rooting for her
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“It feels really empty without him,” says 16-year-old Corey Diawara, whose father was deported in July.
His father had lived in the U.S. for 25 years and had no criminal record. Moussa Diawara says he was deported without being able to speak to his lawyer or a judge. He was eventually sent to Mali, a country a U.S. immigration judge ruled he could not be deported to.
In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security told 60 Minutes that Ghana had provided the U.S. with “diplomatic assurances for his safety.” DHS also questioned the credibility of Diawara’s arguments for fearing persecution in Mali. cbsn.ws/4etdVdW
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A Texas father who had lived in the U.S. for 25 years with no criminal record was finishing his night shift as an Uber driver when immigration agents detained him.
Without being able to speak to his lawyer or a judge, he was put on a plane and sent first to Ghana, a country where he had no ties. He was then sent to his home country, despite a determination by a U.S. immigration court judge that he could not be deported there due to likely persecution. cbsn.ws/3Ude66r
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Eric Bauza has sadly passed away at the age of 46.
The modern voice of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck alongside many other beloved characters.
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social and societal support and a shit ton of resources. it's not about having or not having the will, it's do you have the money for treatment, can someone support you through struggles and dysfunction, if you relapse will someone help patch up, are services even available
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“If you give in to pessimism, I think life has no value. It's easier that way. It's much harder to keep hoping.
In times like these, everything seems dark, but if you lose your own light, the whole world will truly be shrouded in darkness.” Mitski for Rolling Stone Japan.
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Ms. Rachel breaks down in tears over Gaza’s starving children, pleading with the world to save them.
After a UN warning that 14,000 children are at risk of death.
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Just two months after giving birth to her son, Adela Nohemy Castellanos is locked away at the Dilley Trailer Prison with her 10-year-old daughter, Sofia. They are separated from dad and three other siblings.
Adela can't tolerate the food, is very stressed, and can’t sleep. Dilley is no place for a woman recovering from childbirth.
Her attorneys have appealed her deportation. Locking up a mother and her child doesn’t make our country safer. It only makes a family suffer. Hopefully their appeal will be granted.
