Post-Helene, Spanish speakers and Latinos had additional barriers to aid. One Asheville journalist tried to confront that. Tropical storm Helene spared no demographic as it tore through Western North Carolina, but the recovery in greater Asheville had not been as equally distributed. The Latino community in particular faced a different and, in some ways, more [...]
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An ICE detention center employee shot a woman on Thursday night after a protest outside an ICE facility in Aurora, Colorado, according to an Aurora Police Department statement released Friday afternoon. The center is operated by the private prison firm GEO Group, the largest recipient of private contracts with ICE to run immigration detention centers. […]
Earlier this month, ICE agents in Houston shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican man who had lived in the United States for 35 years. ICE claimed Salgado Araujo, who had been driving a van, attempted to run over an ICE agent and an officer shot him “in self-defense.” Passengers who were in […]