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El Salvador-based stablecoin firm Tether considering return to U.S. in wake of GENIUS Act approval
Latin America Reports
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July 29, 2025
The GENIUS Act and Tether’s potential return On July 18, U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law the GENIUS (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins) Act, in a move which the government claims will heighten protection...
Immigrant Kids Detained in ‘Unsafe and Unsanitary’ Sites as Trump Team Seeks To End Protections
KHN
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July 30, 2025
Sandy West A child developed a rash after he was prevented from changing his underwear for four days. A little boy, bored and overcome with despair, began hitting himself in the head. A child with autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity...
Ada and Her Family Fled El Salvador. She Died Alone in the New Mexico Desert
Rolling Stone
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July 29, 2025
H er skeleton lay in the open air. When they first approached the site, in the desert of Sunland Park, New Mexico, in August 2024, the volunteer search party found a body dispersed across the landscape, a rib here, a leg bone there. An intact...
‘Listen to Him’
Catholic Standard - Washington D.C.
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August 1, 2025
The sight of the Lord Jesus in all His glory at the Transfiguration, which the Church celebrates in early August, is a mystery that really is beyond our comprehension. What was heard by Peter, John and James, on the other hand, is unmistakable....
‘Cemetery of the living dead’: Venezuelans recall 125 days in notorious El Salvador prison
The Guardian
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July 29, 2025
Arturo Suárez struggles to pinpoint the worst moment of his incarceration inside a prison the warden boasted was “a cemetery of the living dead”. Was it the day inmates became so exasperated at being beaten by guards that they threatened to hang...
Biggest sources of immigrants to Massachusetts
HomeNewsHere.com - Massachusetts
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Biggest sources of immigrants to Massachusetts Over 14% of the United States population is composed of immigrants. But in reality, the vast majority of Americans today are here because of relatives who immigrated from other countries some time in...
Man from El Salvador sentenced in murder case
The Inter-Mountain - West Virginia
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July 29, 2025
Calderon’s mugshot from the Eastern Regional Jail. Photo by Toni Milbourne Melissa Dailey, mother of slain Samantha Dailey, arrived at the sentencing hearing for David Calderon with ‘a beautiful urn’ — all that she has left of her daughter....
Federal judge weighs release of detained man tortured in home country
Colorado Politics
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A federal judge on Friday considered whether to release a man in custody who suffered torture at the hands of government authorities in his home country and who remains detained, even after prevailing on multiple occasions in recent immigration...
Letter: Matthew Johnson, Sterling
Loudoun Now - Virginia
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Editor: As a resident of Loudoun County and white American citizen, I would like to express my disdain for Sheriff Chapman’s role in furthering the fascistic policies of the federal government by persecuting immigrants, most of whom work a lot...
Fraud in juvenile migrant program causing backlog in visas for foreign priests, religious
Catholic News Agency
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July 30, 2025
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 30, 2025 / 17:54 pm U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released a report showing widespread fraud in its permanent residence program for unaccompanied minors, which has led to a backlog in the...
Kenya joins 51 countries worldwide with worsening conditions for civic freedoms and human rights
Business Insider Africa
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August 1, 2025
The Civicus Monitor, a respected international human rights watchdog, has placed Kenya among 51 countries where civic space is deteriorating. The country joins El Salvador, Indonesia, Serbia, Turkey, and the United States as new additions to the...
IDB Invest and Bladex Support Tigo El Salvador to Expand Broadband Infrastructure and Enhance Digital Inclusion
WFMZ - Pennsylvania
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IDB Invest and Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior (Bladex, NYSE: BLX), co-led a comprehensive financing package of up to $205 million for Tigo El Salvador to expand broadband infrastructure and support digitalization. The financing will...
Keeping Score: States Ramp Up Antiabortion Efforts; Black Women Forced Out of the Workforce; Only a Quarter of Americans Say Trump Has Helped Them
Ms. Magazine
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July 30, 2025
In every issue of Ms., we track research on our progress in the fight for equality, catalogue can’t-miss quotes from feminist voices and keep tabs on the feminist movement’s many milestones. We’re Keeping Score online, too—in this biweekly...
Princess Lalla Asmaa, El Salvador's First Lady Pay Visit to Lalla Asmaa Foundation
Hespress
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July 28, 2025
Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Asmaa, President of the Lalla Asmaa Foundation, and the First Lady of the Republic of El Salvador, Gabriela Rodríguez de Bukele, paid a visit to the Foundation’s headquarters on Monday in Rabat. The visit by...
Princess Lalla Asmaa chairs luncheon offered by the King in honor of El Salvador's First Lady
Hespress
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July 28, 2025
Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Asmaa chaired, on Monday at the Royal Guests Palace in Rabat, a luncheon offered by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, in honor of the First Lady of the Republic of El Salvador, Gabriela Rodríguez De Bukele, currently...
The Trump administration deported hundreds to El Salvador. This database has their stories.
KACU 89.5 - Texas
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On March 15, the Trump administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to CECOT, a maximum security prison in El Salvador. The administration claimed that the men being deported were dangerous criminals. In White House briefings, the...
Democrat urges hearing into ‘human rights abuses’ at El Salvador megaprison
The Guardian
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July 28, 2025
Congresswoman Delia Ramirez is “urgently” requesting a congressional hearing regarding the use of federal funds to pay El Salvador to detain immigrants inside a secretive terrorism prison, according to a letter she sent to the US House’s homeland...
Wife Of Illegal Immigrant In ICE Detention Says His 'Pride' Kept Him From Becoming Citizen
The Daily Caller
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Sakiah Navas, the wife of an illegal immigrant currently being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said on Tuesday evening that her husband’s “pride” kept him from becoming a citizen after spending two decades in the U.S. Navas’...
Biggest sources of immigrants to Arizona
KYMA - Arizona
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July 30, 2025
Biggest sources of immigrants to Arizona Over 14% of the United States population is composed of immigrants. But in reality, the vast majority of Americans today are here because of relatives who immigrated from other countries some time in the...
This Trump enabler has done more damage than the rest of them combined
Raw Story
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August 1, 2025
John Roberts came to the U.S. Supreme Court professing the best of intentions. In his 2005 Senate confirmation hearing, he promised to serve as chief justice in the fashion of a baseball umpire, calling only “balls and strikes, and not to pitch or...