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Motel 6 must pay $7.6 million to Hispanics for giving guest lists to U.S. immigration agents
Motel 6 will pay up to $7.6 million to Hispanic guests to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit claiming that it violated their privacy by regularly providing guest lists to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Terms of the preliminary settlement with eight Hispanic plaintiffs ...
Amazon.com Inc. in June pitched its facial recognition technology — which can identify people from surveillance footage using image databases — as a tool for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, showing that Amazon continued to push the software to law enforcement agencies as criticism ...
Jeff Sessions limits ability of U.S. judges to dismiss deportation cases
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced new limits on the ability of immigration judges to terminate deportation cases on Wednesday, the latest in a series of decisions to facilitate the removal of immigrants in the country illegally. Unlike the federal judiciary system, U.S. immigration courts ...
Newly confirmed water on moon has NASA chief excited about prospects for humans' return
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has a vision for "sustainable" human exploration of the moon, and he cites the newly confirmed ice on the lunar surface as a key to success. "We know that there's hundreds of billions of tons of water ice on the surface ...
Detention centers like 'summer camp' for migrants, immigration official says, irking U.S. lawmakers
U.S. lawmakers assailed the Trump administration Tuesday for its controversial border policy, as one immigration enforcement official pushed back against charges of abuse to say that family detention centers are like a "summer camp." The description was the latest disconnect between officials charged with carrying ...
Florida soldier wounded in service to U.S. says agency blocking his citizenship, alleges Muslim bias
Haeder Al Anbki was all set to become a U.S. citizen last year. The former interpreter for U.S. forces in Iraq, who had been shot and stabbed during his service, was at a June 2017 naturalization ceremony in Fort Benning, Georgia, for 20 immigrant recruits ...
ICE protester's Statue of Liberty climb prompts Independence Day evacuation
A woman protesting U.S. immigration policy climbed the Statue of Liberty's base and forced the monument's evacuation on the Fourth of July hours after several other demonstrators had hung a banner on the statue's pedestal and were arrested. About 100 feet (30 meters) aboveground, the ...
Laos torches narcotics stockpile on World Drug Day but 'Golden Triangle' flow continues
Laos drug officials torched around 40 kg of heroin and tens of thousands of "yaba" pills Tuesday, a small but significant fraction of the narcotics burned on World Drug Day in a region awash with illegal substances. The ceremony was among several destruction events that ...
A French teenager who spent two weeks in U.S. detention after inadvertently crossing the border from Canada while jogging on the beach, told AFP Saturday how she suffered "the fright of my life." "It's unbelievable," said Cedella Roman, 19. The story of how she strayed over ...
Thaw of Antarctic ice lifts up land by up to 4 cm a year, might slow sea level rise: scientists
Antarctica's bedrock is rising surprisingly fast as a vast mass of ice melts into the oceans, a trend that might slow an ascent in sea levels caused by global warming, scientists said on Thursday. The Earth's crust in West Antarctica is rising by up to ...
Senate Democrats demand end to Trump-initiated family separations at U.S. border
U.S. Senate Democrats on Tuesday demanded an end to forced separation of undocumented immigrant children from their parents, introducing legislation that would ban the controversial practice undertaken by the Trump administration. Thirty-two Democrats in the Republican controlled Senate are sponsoring the Keep Families Together Act, ...
ICE sending 1,600 immigration detainees to federal prisons, triggering outcry among rights advocates
U.S. authorities are transferring into federal prisons about 1,600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, officials told Reuters on Thursday, in the first large-scale use of federal prisons to hold detainees amid a Trump administration crackdown on people entering the country illegally. An ICE spokeswoman ...
