Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The Minneapolis Police Department on Tuesday released personnel records for Derek Chauvin, the now-fired officer accused of killing George Floyd, a black man whose death has sparked protest nationwide. The records provide some insight into Chauvin’s background, starting as a military police officer with the U.S. Army from September 1996 to February 1997 and again from September 1999 to May 2000.However, the records included little detail about the at least 17 times that Chauvin was the subject of internal affairs investigations by...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The Minneapolis Police Department on Tuesday released personnel records for Derek Chauvin, the now-fired officer accused of killing George Floyd, a black man whose death has sparked protest nationwide. The records provide some insight into Chauvin’s background, starting as a military police officer with the U.S. Army from September 1996 to February 1997 and again from September 1999 to May 2000.However, the records included little detail about the at least 17 times that Chauvin was the subject of internal affairs investigations by...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The 17-year-old Guatemalan boy in a California detention center for migrant children has been held for more than 400 days. He’s one of the longest-held of the roughly 1,800 minors in the U.S. immigration detention system — the largest in the world, and one now .For the record:Under a decades-old legal settlement, the government is required to hold migrant children in “safe and sanitary” conditions and make “prompt and continuous” efforts to release them and reunify families. Two federal judges in recent weeks have ruled that the...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The 17-year-old Guatemalan boy in a California detention center for migrant children has been held for more than 400 days. He’s one of the longest-held of the roughly 1,800 minors in the U.S. immigration detention system — the largest in the world, and one now .For the record:Under a decades-old legal settlement, the government is required to hold migrant children in “safe and sanitary” conditions and make “prompt and continuous” efforts to release them and reunify families. Two federal judges in recent weeks have ruled that the...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Trump on Wednesday signed a proclamation on immigration that will restrict some people from entering the country over the next 60 days, but does not shut off applications for permanent residence as he had publicly declared just one day earlier.The order, which Trump signed Wednesday afternoon, will block some new entrants who do not already have visas or other travel documents. But it includes broad exemptions for several categories of foreign workers and employers, from investors to healthcare professionals, as well as...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Trump on Wednesday signed a proclamation on immigration that will restrict some people from entering the country over the next 60 days, but does not shut off applications for permanent residence as he had publicly declared just one day earlier.The order, which Trump signed Wednesday afternoon, will block some new entrants who do not already have visas or other travel documents. But it includes broad exemptions for several categories of foreign workers and employers, from investors to healthcare professionals, as well as...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Biden kept in place Friday the Trump administration’s historically low cap of 15,000 refugees allowed into to the United States, a reversal of promises to let in over 60,000 people fleeing danger and persecution this year.Biden’s decision signaled a break from his vows on the campaign trail and in the White House, as well as his broader rhetorical commitment to quickly replace former President Trump’s nativist-fueled immigration policies with a more humane approach. The move drew outrage from refugee advocates as well as...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Biden kept in place Friday the Trump administration’s historically low cap of 15,000 refugees allowed into to the United States, a reversal of promises to let in over 60,000 people fleeing danger and persecution this year.Biden’s decision signaled a break from his vows on the campaign trail and in the White House, as well as his broader rhetorical commitment to quickly replace former President Trump’s nativist-fueled immigration policies with a more humane approach. The move drew outrage from refugee advocates as well as...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The White House on Monday announced a temporary protected status decree that could allow tens of thousands of Venezuelans who fled their homeland to remain in the United States with legal standing.The program marks a significant shift in U.S. policy from the Trump administration, which denied Venezuelans protection even as President Trump tried to overthrow the leftist government in Caracas. His administration also secretly deported Venezuelans despite clamor in Congress for protected status for the refugees. Only on his last day in...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The White House on Monday announced a temporary protected status decree that could allow tens of thousands of Venezuelans who fled their homeland to remain in the United States with legal standing.The program marks a significant shift in U.S. policy from the Trump administration, which denied Venezuelans protection even as President Trump tried to overthrow the leftist government in Caracas. His administration also secretly deported Venezuelans despite clamor in Congress for protected status for the refugees. Only on his last day in...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A collision between a semitruck and an SUV carrying more than two dozen people near the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday morning has left 13 dead and several others injured, officials said. A collision between a big rig and an SUV carrying more than two dozen people near the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday morning killed at least 13 and injured several others, authorities said.About 6 a.m., the 2011 Peterbilt tractor-trailer was traveling north on Route 115 near El Centro when, for reasons that remained unclear, a Ford Expedition entered an...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A collision between a semitruck and an SUV carrying more than two dozen people near the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday morning has left 13 dead and several others injured, officials said. A collision between a big rig and an SUV carrying more than two dozen people near the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday morning killed at least 13 and injured several others, authorities said.About 6 a.m., the 2011 Peterbilt tractor-trailer was traveling north on Route 115 near El Centro when, for reasons that remained unclear, a Ford Expedition entered an...WW…

Copyright © 2020, Los Angeles Times | | | |AdvertisementPresident-elect Joe Biden on Monday named Alejandro Mayorkas as his Homeland Security secretary, a move that could make the Cuban American and former federal prosecutor in California the first Latino and first immigrant to serve in the Cabinet post. Mayorkas, who was born in Havana, and attended UC Berkeley and Loyola Law School. He began working for the government as an assistant United States attorney in the Central District of California, specializing in white-collar crime, and went on to become the youngest U.S. attorney in the...…Copyright © 2020, Los Angeles Times | | | |AdvertisementPresident-elect Joe Biden on Monday named Alejandro Mayorkas as his Homeland Security secretary, a move that could make the Cuban American and former federal prosecutor in California the first Latino and first immigrant to serve in the Cabinet post. Mayorkas, who was born in Havana, and attended UC Berkeley and Loyola Law School. He began working for the government as an assistant United States attorney in the Central District of California, specializing in white-collar crime, and went on to become the youngest U.S. attorney in the...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement At least 19 women at a Georgia immigration facility are now alleging that a doctor performed, or pressured them to undergo, “overly aggressive” or “medically unnecessary” surgery without their consent, including procedures that affect their ability to have children, according to a new report and other records obtained by The Times. The new report was written by a team of nine board-certified OB-GYNs and two nursing experts, each affiliated with academic medical centers — including those at Northwestern University, Baylor College of...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement At least 19 women at a Georgia immigration facility are now alleging that a doctor performed, or pressured them to undergo, “overly aggressive” or “medically unnecessary” surgery without their consent, including procedures that affect their ability to have children, according to a new report and other records obtained by The Times. The new report was written by a team of nine board-certified OB-GYNs and two nursing experts, each affiliated with academic medical centers — including those at Northwestern University, Baylor College of...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Santoshi Tamang’s nightmares repeat. Someone brings her deep into the tangled woods outside her small town in southeastern Nepal and leaves her there, alone.Then she sees the pyre where the body is burning. The body reaches for her, pulling her into the flames.It is the body she burned in these same woods — the body shipped home after her husband, a migrant worker named Subash, was declared dead in Saudi Arabia more than five years ago.AdvertisementSantoshi remembers only flashes of the funeral she saw between blackouts. The body, wrapped in a...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Santoshi Tamang’s nightmares repeat. Someone brings her deep into the tangled woods outside her small town in southeastern Nepal and leaves her there, alone.Then she sees the pyre where the body is burning. The body reaches for her, pulling her into the flames.It is the body she burned in these same woods — the body shipped home after her husband, a migrant worker named Subash, was declared dead in Saudi Arabia more than five years ago.AdvertisementSantoshi remembers only flashes of the funeral she saw between blackouts. The body, wrapped in a...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A Biden White House is likely to dramatically shift U.S. policy in Central and Latin America away from President Trump’s and return to the more traditional diplomatic tools of building democratic governments, fighting corruption and respecting human rights — changes that won’t be welcomed by some of the region’s leaders.In contrast to Trump, Biden says that the best way to reduce illegal immigration to the U.S. is to fight the root causes, such as violence and poverty in countries to the south — problems that have only deepened...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A Biden White House is likely to dramatically shift U.S. policy in Central and Latin America away from President Trump’s and return to the more traditional diplomatic tools of building democratic governments, fighting corruption and respecting human rights — changes that won’t be welcomed by some of the region’s leaders.In contrast to Trump, Biden says that the best way to reduce illegal immigration to the U.S. is to fight the root causes, such as violence and poverty in countries to the south — problems that have only deepened...WW…