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NEW: Over the past few months, I heard from several Mexican workers who are wondering: ‘Have I been trafficked?’ They say they were hired for engineering jobs in Georgia, but instead were asked to do grueling assembly-line labor once here. 🧵
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‘A total lie’: Mexican engineers say they were misled into manual labor in Ga. factories
Georgia-based companies recruited Mexican college graduates for engineering work – but they allegedly had them perform assembly line work instead.
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Noam Scheiber
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Several companies that cultivate progressive images--Apple, Starbucks, Trader Joe's, REI--appear to have really escalated their pushback against union campaigns, with formal discipline and firings. I have a new piece up explaining how and why
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Companies Are Taking a Harder Line on Union Organizers, Workers Say
Apple, Starbucks, Trader Joe’s and REI are accused of targeting union supporters after organizing efforts gained traction, charges the companies deny.
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Matina Stevis-Gridneff
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Greece Says It Doesn’t Ditch Migrants at Sea. It Was Caught in the Act.
Video evidence shows asylum seekers, among them young children, being rounded up, taken to sea and abandoned on a raft by the Greek Coast Guard.
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Hamed Aleaziz
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BREAKING: An eight-year-old girl died in Border Patrol custody in Texas on Wednesday, CBP officials confirmed tonight. “The child and her family were in custody at the Harlingen Station where she experienced a medical emergency." Our story:
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8-year-old girl dies in Border Patrol custody
'The child and her family were in custody at the Harlingen Station where she experienced a medical emergency,' officials said.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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Today has been a pretty consequential day on immigration. So let's go through everything which has happened in the last 24 hours, starting with this morning's big news: the Biden administration's finalized new asylum restriction, first introduced as a proposed rule in February.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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New! The Biden admin's asylum restriction has been published in the Federal Register. It is set to go into effect on May 11, just in time for the end of Title 42 that night. There are some minor changes, but they don't affect the core rule. Rule: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-10146.pdf
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Atlanta is getting roughly $7 million in federal funding to deal with the migrant surge that could be on the way as the US transitions away from Title 42. New York and DC are the only other non-border communities to have received more $.
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Atlanta receives $7M to deal with migrant surge as Title 42 ends
As changes to border policy leave cities across the country bracing for a potential increase in migrant arrivals, Atlanta will receive millions of dollars in federal funding to help manage an...
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These photos show children working in a Nebraska slaughterhouse – their faces are obscured. The Labor Department found more than 100 children were working in dangerous conditions, some reporting chemical burns. 60 Minutes reports, tonight.
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"He said, 'Fucking idiots, you guys do not have rights here.'" A new lawsuit sheds light on how labor contractors indicted in a South Georgia trafficking bust treated the farmworkers they had recruited in Mexico.
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Georgia modern-day slavery: Alleged traffickers sued by workers
In 2020 and 2021, a Georgia-based labor recruiter traveled to San Luis Potosí — a Mexican province where close to half of the population lives in poverty — to find workers willing to pick blueberries...
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Riley Bunch
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NEW: Thursday morning McCray's Tavern opened as usual while staff prepped for their regular lunch crowd. It was a stark difference from the scene that played out the day before as police filled the streets and patrons hid in the bar's bathrooms. #atlpol
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Normalcy, resignation set in day after shooting
McCray’s Tavern at the corner of 13th and West Peachtree Streets opened Thursday morning at 11 a.m., as usual. Staff set chairs outside, prepped the bar and joked among themselves as they waited for...
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Steve Mills
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Our goal was to get this
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story of a child killed on a dairy farm to people wherever they are. So we published it in English and Spanish and read it aloud in English and Spanish. Now, we have this booklet in Spanish to give out at groceries and restaurants.
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Melissa Sanchez
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Ahhhhhhh!!!!!! Look what just arrived!!!! So excited to share these printed booklets en español of our story on the death of an immigrant boy on a dairy farm to the people who helped us report it out — and to distribute more broadly to dairy workers across Wisconsin!
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Katherine Landergan
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Why renter protections fail in Georgia Legislature: "The political interests of these landlord lawmakers are diverse, but their sheer number hints at one reason that Georgia’s tenant protections remain among the nation’s weakest." by
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Landlord-legislators may hold fate of tenant protection bill
Landlords and real estate interest groups are powerful political force in Georgia. Residential landlords make up an estimated one-quarter of the Georgia General Assembly, The Atlanta Journal-Consti...
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Miriam Jordan
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An overlooked trend: Many people have been leaving the US and returning to their countries of origin, after spending most of their lives toiling as undocumented workers. The Hernandezes decided to leave jobs and children behind in NY.
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Many Undocumented Immigrants Are Departing After Decades in the U.S.
Crowded scenes at the border do not necessarily translate into an increase in the undocumented population. Many other immigrants have been returning home.
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Hannah Dreier
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Two days after we reported that thousands of migrant children are being exploited for their labor, the Biden administration has announced sweeping changes to fix multiple system failures. In letters and floor speeches, lawmakers say even more must be done.
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Biden Administration Plans Crackdown on Migrant Child Labor
The move came days after a Times investigation showed children were working in dangerous jobs throughout the United States.
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“President Carter, his actions before I was born changed the trajectory of all refugees in this country.” There's a lot of gratitude among refugee households for the Carter presidency. Here's why ⬇️
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Refugees and their advocates see a champion in Jimmy Carter
Dr. Heval Kelli moved to metro Atlanta in 2001 as a Syrian refugee. After washing dishes early on to help support his family – the victims of violence and persecution in their homeland – he became a...
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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NEWS — The Biden administration has published a proposal that would disqualify certain migrants from US asylum and allow the government to deport them more quickly, saying the major policy shift is needed to curb unlawful migration to the southern border.
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Biden administration moves to limit asylum in bid to reduce border arrivals
The Biden administration said the number of migrants entering the U.S. illegally will spike unless the asylum restrictions are implemented.
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Charles Minshew
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Investors have bought more than 65,000 single-family homes in metro Atlanta. Over the course of a year, they bought 1 out of every 3 homes. They’re taking over neighborhoods and pushing the American Dream of homeownership out of reach.
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American Dream For Rent: Investors elbow out individual home buyers
Large investment firms are pushing homeownership out of reach for many first-time buyers, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation has found. Single-family houses have been snatched up in the...
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