HUD skipped the deadline for the Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief Funding. During a congressional hearing on Thursday with a House Appropriations subcommittee, Irv Dennis and David Woll, the Department of Housing and Urban Development's CFO and principal deputy assistant secretary for community planning and development had disclosed that the department had knowledgeably skipped the legal deadline for the Puerto Rico hurricane relief funding.
Some places in the US are now becoming US sanctuary districts for immigrants. The scare of President Trump's immigration law had reached the students from all over the country.
Biggest pension fund in US ended their ties with companies handling migrant detention operations CalPERS Ends Business Partnership with Two Companies Supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Operations According to the announcement of the California Faculty Association during their Friday conference with the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), the biggest pension fund for the citizens of the United States of America is ending their ties with two for-profit prison organizations handling migrant detention operations for the US government.
900 health clinics focused on promoting women’s health all over the United States of America had not been granted federal funding as Trump implements Gag rule.
Immigrants who seek residency in the United States of America are subject to the strictest asylum policy set by President Donald Trump’s administration.
GUATEMALA: The signing of a bilateral "safe third country" migratory pact set to take place today has been postponed after facing legal and political hurdles. The decision comes as the Constitutional Court (CC) resolved an appeal against the signing of the controversial asylum policy last night.
The Latino USA continues its coverage of the field of candidates for the 2020 Democratic nomination with a conversation with Senator Cory Booker. Booker has come a long way since 1995 when, while attending law school at Yale, he moved to Newark to help the community, later moving to a housing project where he lived for a number of years before it was demolished.
PUERTO RICO: The FBI arrested six government officials and prominent business leaders yesterday on 32 counts of money laundering and fraud, as part of an ongoing probe involving the malfeasance of $15.5 million in federal funds. Prosecutors say that former Education Secretary (DE) Julia Keleher spent $13 million in securing illicit contracts to the Ponce-Mendoza sisters, Glenda and Mayra, whom she employed as assistants and consultants at the DE.
UNITED STATES: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will launch raids across ten major cities this Sunday, according to the New York Times. The raids are expected to potentially target around 2,000 undocumented immigrants who "have been ordered to be deported."
Just 12 hours after Uber's service became available in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, taxi industry representatives took the company -and the city's administration- to court. The case was similar to those faced by the company in London, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Budapest, Frankfurt, and several US states and Canadian provinces.
Though wrestling is widely regarded as the world's oldest sport, women have only recently gained a foothold. And even then, they've done so while facing tremendous discrimination and resistance from organizers, other wrestlers, and fans.
A man who stabbed his estranged wife to death in front of their child has told a court he "never set out" to kill her. Ricardo Godinho, 41, is accused of murdering Aliny Godhino amid a confrontation during a school run on 8 February.
Since October, almost 700,000 people have been detained crossing the border from Mexico into the US, a huge jump on previous years. The large number of new arrivals has proven to be a polarising issue.
A European Vega rocket has been lost shortly after blast off, the commercial space company Arianespace says. It is the first time in 15 launches that a Vega rocket has failed.
Brazil's lower house of Congress has voted by a large majority to overhaul the country's generous pension system. The vote, with 379 in favor and 131 against, is seen as an important victory for President Jair Bolsonaro.
Mexico's finance minister has quit over differences with the country's left-wing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador. In a letter, made public on his Twitter account, Finance Secretary Carlos Manuel Urzúa Macías said there were many economic "discrepancies".
Swap Jorge Burruchaga for Gonzalo Higuain and perhaps one of the doubts about Lionel Messi's place in the pantheon would have been put to bed years ago. The eternal complaint: that Messi has not won a senior title with Argentina. The eternal comparison: with Diego Maradona in 1986.
A court in Italy has sentenced 24 South American ex-officials to life in prison for illegally detaining, torturing and killing hundreds of opposition activists in the 1970s and 1980s.
