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At La Imperial Bakery in Hillsboro, October typically brings a rush of customers eager to celebrate Día de los Muertos, the Mexican Day of the Dead. They buy bags of pan de muerto, conchas and other pastries galore. Not this year. Over the past few weeks, as the federal government has ramped up immigration enforcement and agents have seized people from cars, streets, apartment buildings and parking lots across the Portland metro area, sales at the family-owned bakery have plummeted by at least 40 percent, said owner and lead pastry chef Moises Pineda. “The clients are not coming,” Pineda said....

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The woman remembers when she first moved to the neighborhood more than 20 years ago, and the streets were full of empty storefronts and seemingly relentless poverty. Today, Minneapolis’ Lake Street corridor is jammed with businesses, many owned by Somali refugees. “Look at what we did around here,” said Nasra Hassan, a community health worker whose family came to Minneapolis fleeing Somalia’s civil war, speaking one day after the Trump administration slashed the number of refugees allowed into the United States. “Because of us this place is thriving.” Minnesota’s large Somali community was among the immigrant groups...

CARLYLE, Ill. -- When Jose Jeronimo Guardian showed up at a Spanish language traffic court this week, he didn't expect to be detained and face expulsion from a country he'd lived in for more than two decades. Guardian, 48, was scheduled to appear Monday in a courtroom where a county-provided translator would aid communication with about a dozen Spanish-speaking defendants who face charges from traffic infractions like his - two charges of driving under the influence of alcohol - to serious felony charges. Guardian never made it into the courtroom. Instead, an agent from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement questioned...

“PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Oregon leaders and immigration advocates are holding a press conference after they say more than 30 people were arrested by ICE agents in Woodburn on Thursday. The presidents of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and Pineros Y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN) spoke at the event….”

Under President Donald Trump’s renewed crackdown on illegal immigration, thousands of illegal migrants are facing deportation from the United States. Among them are dozens of Indian men who had risked everything, including their money, safety, and dreams, to reach what they believed was the land of opportunity. -snip- Harjinder Singh, a farmer, had spent 3.5 million rupees to go to the US four years ago. Once there, he worked as a cook, determined to support his children back home. “My hopes have been dashed, it is a pity that I could not do anything,” said Singh to BBC, adding he...

Upcoming changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will soon restrict which Ohioans are eligible for benefits. The One Big Beautiful Bill, which President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, changes “non-citizen eligibility for SNAP.” Only U.S. citizens, green card holders who have gone through a five-year waiting period, and some Haitian and Cuban nationals with special status will be eligible for SNAP. This means refugees, people who have been granted asylum and human trafficking survivors will all lose their benefits, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service...

The dream of a better life in the US has ended for Harjinder Singh of Jagoli village in Ambala, who was deported on Sunday after being caught for illegal stay. Harjinder, who went to the US in 2021, said he had dreamt of working hard and earning well for his family’s future. But his hopes were crushed when US authorities deported him under the Trump administration’s policy of removing illegal immigrants. “They should have deported us with dignity instead of sending us in chains. We remained in chains for nearly 25 hours. There is swelling in my legs and other...

"My feet are swollen. I was shackled for 25 hours (on the flight)," said 45-year-old Harjinder Singh, who was part of the latest batch of Indians deported by the US. Expressing his ordeal, Singh also said he spent Rs 35 lakh to migrate to the US for a better life but his dreams of doing something good for the family are dashed now. The latest batch of illegal migrants included around 50 people from Haryana's Kaithal, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Ambala, Yamunanagar, Jind and Panipat districts, officials said. A plane carrying them landed at the Delhi airport late on Saturday night. The...

johnny maga @_johnnymaga The CEO of the “North American Punjabi Trucking Association” fears some of his drivers will quit trucking, as they’re “not feeling safe” amid political backlash in the aftermath of two horrific deadly crashes in recent weeks. I wish I was making this up.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- President Donald Trump's immigration operation "Midway Blitz" has been underway for several weeks, and the hospitality industry, especially restaurants in Latino wards, are feeling the impact. Gerardo Auza comes from a family of restaurant owners. The 42-year-old's dream was to open his own business. It came true eight months ago, when Auza opened El Mexico De Chicago in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood. The Mexican immigrant says online reviews have been great, but none of it matters if no one shows up. "For over a month, it takes like 70% to 80%. The customers didn't show up to...

Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes NEW: Section 8 payments to be PAUSED due to Democrats keeping the government shutdown Landlord has just received a letter from the Housing Authority saying after mid November, payments will be paused “October is funded, partial of November is funded. After that, if the shutdown continues, we will not be getting paid our rent”

As NBC ratings continue to fall with resultant reduction in revenues/profits, NBS has just fired 150 staff mostly made up of LGBTQ Out specialists and staff who concentrated on black, Latino people issues.

A policy decision of American President Donald Trump has rattled the Telugu world. Many families across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are battling a crisis of faith, careers, and marriages hinged to the H-1B visa. Some estimates suggest that 10–15% of all H-1B visas are filled by applicants from the twin Telugu states, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. With Indians accounting for nearly 71% of total H-1B allocations, this translates into tens of thousands of young Telugu graduates, engineers, and tech professionals. -snip- For a regular Telugu family, an American education, job, and alludu (son-in-law) is a matter of pride. It's culturally...

Agencies have been shuttered going on three weeks with no end in sight as the White House and congressional Democrats continue their standoff.The ongoing government shutdown will collide with the U.S. economy this week, as missed paychecks and the absence of billions of dollars of government services reverberate beyond federal workers and sting the broader public.President Donald Trump and lawmakers in Congress remain deadlocked heading into a third week of shuttered federal agencies. Republicans control both chambers of Congress, but lack the votes in the Senate to defeat a filibuster of legislation to fund ongoing operations. Democrats insist that Trump...

The Trump administration revealed in a court filing that more than 4,000 federal workers were fired Friday as a result of the ongoing partial government shutdown. The mass layoffs will affect government workers in at least seven Cabinet-level agencies, according to the document filed in the District Court for the Northern District of California, where federal employee labor unions are suing to stop the Trump administration from downsizing amid the lapse in federal funding. The bulk of the layoffs took place at the Treasury Department and the Department of Health and Human Services, where approximately 1,446 employees and up to...

CEDAR CITY, Utah (KUTV) — A new emergency action plan by the U.S. Secretary of Transportation has temporarily paused the issuance and renewal of commercial driver's licenses across the country. States must now audit their licensing systems, which have left many legal non-citizens unsure if they can keep working. “I got to keep driving down these roads of a country that doesn't really want me here,” said Jorge Rivera, a truck driver from Enoch. Rivera is one of roughly 580,000 people across the country under DACA, a federal program that allows immigrants brought to the United States as children to...

Trump is not only scapegoating our city; he is plotting to make the neighborhoods of working families, immigrants and communities of color the staging grounds for authoritarian force.While many families prepared their children for school Monday morning, Sept. 29, I woke up to calls from parents in Chicago too afraid to leave their homes. Rumors of immigration enforcement were spreading, and the simple act of walking a child to school felt like too much of a risk. I am a mother and an Illinois state representative, and these calls hit me in two places at once: as a parent who...

Parents are standing guard at schools. Restaurants have stopped delivering food or simply closed. “Every single person who looks brown is scared,” a lawyer said.The signs in Spanish are taped to windows in storefronts all over Chicago: “ICE NO ES BIENVENIDO AQUÍ.” Warning networks have been operating all day, every day, as people who spot agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the streets text friends and neighbors or begin streaming urgent cautions on Facebook Live. Even tourists have been drawn into the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, startled by the sight of federal agents marching in camouflage last weekend through...

When Qian Zhang boarded a flight from Shanghai to Boston at age 18, she thought she was heading toward the "best version" of her life. It was 2009, during President Barack Obama's first term, when the U.S. economy was rebounding and opportunities for well-educated workers seemed plentiful. She was bound for Dartmouth College, a top choice for many Chinese students, and later found her way to Harvard Business School. Qian embraced the American dream: the promise of equal opportunity, a country that rewards talent and hard work, and a place where global citizens like her could belong. By her early...

A SIKH GRANDMOTHER who had lived in the U.S. for more than 30 years has been deported to New Delhi, India, after spending a week in what her attorney called “barbaric” conditions at a private ICE detention center in Georgia. “There was no rationale to detain Bibi Harjit Kaur,” Deepak Ahluwalia, Kaur’s attorney, told American Community Media in a Sept. 24 interview. “It’s all part of their effort to fill beds.” “Her detention was nothing short of barbaric,” said Ahluwalia. “That type of treatment would affect most people. They chose to do this to a 73-year-old woman with disabilities and...