skip to main content
skip to newscasts

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Public News Service Logo
facebook instagram linkedin reddit youtube twitter
view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Pulling back the curtains on wage-theft enforcement in MN; Trump's latest attack is on RFK, Jr; NM LGBTQ+ equality group endorses 2024 'Rock Star' candidates; Michigan's youth justice reforms: Expanded diversion, no fees.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says rebuilding Baltimore's Key Bridge will be challenging and expensive. An Alabama Democrat flips a state legislature seat and former Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman dies at 82.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Historic wildfires could create housing and health issues for rural Texans, a Kentucky program helps prison parolees start a new life, and descendants of Nicodemus, Kansas celebrate the Black settlers who journeyed across the 1870s plains seeking self-governance.

Opponents of U.S. Immigration Policies March in El Paso

play audio
Play

Friday, April 30, 2021   

EL PASO, Texas - A group that opposes U.S. immigration policies and holding children at military bases is protesting today by walking to Fort Bliss near El Paso, where 3,000 children are thought to be held.

Josh Rubin, founder of Witness at the Border, said his group is opposed to detaining children at Fort Bliss or other centers in Dallas and San Diego.

Rubin said the children have exercised their right to migrate and seek asylum, and marchers will be calling on the Biden administration to end Title 42 expulsions implemented by President Donald Trump and admit migrant families on a priority basis.

"It's not a problem for our country to absorb the people that want to come here," said Rubin. "It's never actually been a problem at all. We need people in the workforce. We only have a problem with the appearance of it."

Marchers will bring stuffed toys for the children expelled or left behind to the Pershing gate at Fort Bliss and then, rally at Haddox Family Park at 12:30 p.m. The walk coincides with the Mexican Children's Day, or El Día Del Niño, traditionally celebrated on April 30.

The Biden administration has ramped up capacity to house the thousands of children arriving at the Southwest border without a parent or legal guardian.

Rubin said many being detained already have family members in the U.S. who are ready, in most cases, to provide them with homes.

He said Witness at the Border wants the administration to allow parents and other close relatives living in the U.S. to come to the border and get them.

"These are desperate people who are expelled back into the most dangerous places in the hemisphere," said Rubin. "And these parents, these family members, look at their children and say, 'Well, if I can't go, I at least have to save my children.' And they send them across."

Fort Bliss has 5,000 beds for unaccompanied children fleeing deteriorating conditions in their home countries.

A portion of the Dallas Convention Center also is being used as one of more than a dozen temporary shelters the Biden administration has established to accommodate the children.




get more stories like this via email
more stories
A report from the Tennessee HealthCare Campaign recommended the federal government needs to strengthen 340B drug pricing and other federal negotiation mechanisms to make needed medicines more readily available and less expensive for hospitals to purchase and administer. (Spotmatikphoto/AdobeStock)

Health and Wellness

play sound

A recent report examined how some rural Tennessee hospitals have managed to stay afloat despite financial challenges. The report includes interviews …


Social Issues

play sound

Earlier this month, a new Arizona Public Service rate hike went into effect and one senior advocacy group said those on a fixed income may struggle …

Social Issues

play sound

Michigan recently implemented a significant juvenile justice reform package following recommendations from a task force made up of prosecutors…


Nearly 13 million Americans receive health coverage through unique plans under both Medicare and Medicaid. They are known as Dual-Eligible Special Needs Plans. (Adobe Stock)

Health and Wellness

play sound

Medicare and Medicaid are key sources of health coverage for many Americans and some people qualify for assistance under both programs. With lagging …

Social Issues

play sound

A mix of policy updates and staffing boosts has helped to put wage theft enforcement on the radar in Minnesota, and officials leading the efforts are …

More than six in 10 Americans favor keeping the abortion pill mifepristone available in the U.S. as a prescription drug, while over a third are opposed, according to a Gallup poll. (Adobe Stock)

Social Issues

play sound

New research shows more than six in 10 abortions in the U.S. last year were medically induced, and U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto - D-NV - is …

Social Issues

play sound

Colorado is working to boost the state's agricultural communities by getting more fresh, nutritious foods into school cafeterias - and a new online …

Social Issues

play sound

Missouri lawmakers are concerned with protecting people from the potential risks of the increasing accessibility of AI-generated images and videos…

 

Phone: 303.448.9105 Toll Free: 888.891.9416 Fax: 208.247.1830 Your trusted member- and audience-supported news source since 1996 Copyright © 2021