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Hail Hereditary

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#HEADLINES: Kidnapped Nigerian Girls Located, New Safety Requirements for Keystone XL, Using Jailed Migrants as a Pool of Cheap Labor, Leaders of India and Pakistan Hold Rare Meeting, DHS May Reduce Deportations of Nonviolent Immigrants, Brown University Faces Federal Complaint for Allowing Rapist Back, Israel-Palestine: Europe Should Atone for Its Sins

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AFP 'We know where missing girls are' says Nigeria's top military officer -- Telegraph "'The good news for the parents of the girls is that we know where they are, but we cannot tell you,' Badeh was quoted as saying. 'But where they are held, can we go there with force? We can't kill our girls in the name of trying to get them back.' "Most officials think any raid to rescue them would be fraught with danger and probably not worth the risk that the girls would be killed by their captors - an Islamist group that has shown a degree of ruthlessness in killing civilians." Tony Gutierrez/AP Photo New safety requirements set for Keystone pipeline -- Associated Press "Safety regulators have quietly placed two extra conditions on construction of TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL oil pipeline after learning of potentially dangerous construction defects involving the southern leg of the Canada-to-Texas project. "The defec...

#HEADLINES: County Jails Profit From Immigrant Detainees, California Drought, Brazil World Cup Protests, Cuban Embargo, Miami's Metrorail at 30, Emergency Measures in Texas as Youths Cross Border Alone, Democrats Have a Millenials Problem

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Dialing with Dollars: How County Jails Profit From Immigrant Detainees -- The Nation "Arali and Milton are just two of thousands of undocumented immigrants across the United States who are charged exorbitant rates for calls from county jails that contract with ICE to hold immigrant detainees. About 50 percent of all immigrant detainees are held in county jails, according to ICE, and many of these cash-strapped jails, like Plymouth County Detention Center, have sought to raise revenue through contracts with phone companies that charge excessive rates and kick back part of the profits. Immigrant detainees end up paying the same inflated telephone rates charged to their citizen inmate counterparts, but unlike jail inmates charged with a crime, immigration detainees don’t have access to court-appointed attorneys. This means they are responsible for finding an attorney or representing themselves, both tasks that require affordable phone access." ***learn more about how your o...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: GROUPS CALL ON ICE TO REINSTATE COMMUNITY-BASED VISITATION PROGRAMS

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 6, 2013 Contact: Christina Fialho, Co-Executive Director, CIVIC 385-212-4842 (385-21-CIVIC),  CFialho@endisolation.org Victoria Mena, Program Coordinator, Friends of Adelanto Detainees 352-562-1386,  V.Mena80@gmail.com ACLU SoCal: Diana Rubio 213.977.5252 or   drubio@aclu-sc.org   GROUPS CALL ON ICE TO REINSTATE COMMUNITY-BASED VISITATION PROGRAMS  ICE Suspends CIVIC-Affiliated Visitation Programs in Response to CIVIC's Public Criticism of Detention Conditions LOS ANGELES – Today, Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC)—a national group working to end the isolation and abuse of people in immigration detention through visitation—and the ACLU of Southern California (ACLU SoCal), along with other legal service providers and advocates, sent two letters requesting that ICE reinstate community visitation programs immediately. The agency suspended the visitation programs at three detent...

Breaking Down the 2013 State of the Union

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So it's been over a month since the State of the Union Address; I know I'm a little tardy to the party on this one but I worked hard on it and with all the other things I've got going on, it tends to take quite a bit of time to do an analysis this extensive of an hour-long speech.  It was Obama's first State of the Union (SotU) since winning re-election, which is a huge moment for any president.  You no longer have to worry about being re-elected and you have four years ahead of you to do all the difficult things you really came here to do.  That being said, it comes as no surprise that if I could choose only one word to describe the 2013 State of the Union, it would be "ambitious."  There was a lot of stuff we had all heard many times before--stuff that was straight out of campaign speeches such as the themes of growing the middle class and income inequality.  But there was also a lot of stuff we hadn't heard before, at least not from Obama.  Let...