An unknown anti-Islam group has created a fake website that spouts hateful rhetoric while pretending to represent an Illinois Muslim organization — adding fuel to an already volatile debate at a nearby evangelical college over a professor who said Christians and Muslims worship the “same God.”
Don’t open your door. Ask for a warrant when a stranger knocks on your door. Memorize the phone numbers of relatives and lawyers.
These are just some of the pieces of advice that immigrant advocates have been giving Central Americans who entered the country after May 2014, now that the Obama administration has begun an aggressive immigration operation targeting them for deportation in the new year.
Federal officials will open two shelters in response to a resurgent flow of unaccompanied children through the southern U.S. border. Senior Obama administration officials said on Monday that the shelters, set to open in Texas and California, will add at least 1,400 more beds, according to theNew York Times.
In recent years, tens of thousands of unaccompanied children have fled violence in poverty in the Central American countries like El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras and entered the United States through the southern border. Federal immigration officials along the southwest border, particularly along the Rio Grande Sector in Texas, apprehended 68,541 unaccompanied children in the 2014 fiscal year and 39,970 in the 2015 fiscal year, according to the Customs and Border Protection agency.
As France suffers the fallout from the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris, the far-right National Front party emerged as frontrunners in the regional election primaries.
“I believe the incredible results of the National Front amounts to the revolt of the people against the elite,” Leader Marine Le Pen said Monday on French radio. “The French people have had enough of being treated like a herd of sheep.”
Rhode Island was founded by refugees looking to flee religious persecution in England, but now a lawmaker from that state is urging her governor to put Syrian refugees into camps “segregated from our populous” if the state is called to act as host.
