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fromCommon Dreams
1 week ago'It Must Stop': New Yorkers Protest After Violent ICE Raid on Canal Street Sparks Chaos | Common Dreams
NewsCopter 7 showed arrests taking place between Lafayette and Center streets in Chinatown, an area typically busy with merchants selling T-shirts, handbags, perfumes, and designer knockoffs, as New Yorkers faced off against federal agents. The scene grew chaotic as vendors packed up their tables and attempted to flee, with several people seen running and falling as authorities from multiple agencies, including Homeland Security, ICE, DEA and the FBI, pursued them.
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fromThe Tablet
3 weeks agoThe Forgotten Church That Shaped Hispanic Ministry in the Diocese of Brooklyn
The Diocese of Brooklyn provides over a century of Spanish-language Catholic ministry to immigrants, recruiting Spanish-speaking clergy and sending priests abroad for language training.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
4 months agoBay Area restaurants, chefs are again shut out of the James Beard Awards
"At our restaurant, we tell stories of immigrants, of diaspora, endurance and perseverance. LA is a city built by the toils of immigrant communities, and right now, those same communities are being ripped apart."
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