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Bury Me, My Love follows the journey of a Syrian immigrant, Nour, as she makes her way from Syria to Europe. However, it is conveyed through text messages between her and her husband, Majd, with players offering advice and encouragement to their distant loved one. These messages occur in pseudo real-time, too, leaving the player […]
Published time: 21 Oct, 2017 03:34 The Trump administration has until the end of October, less than two weeks away, to find a private sponsor for a 17-year-old illegal immigrant seeking an abortion, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled Friday. The teenage girl is 15 weeks’ pregnant and in US […]
Four Horsemen looks to explore what it’s like to be an immigrant teen learning the nuances and brutalities of life in a new land, dealing with the conflicting desires of wanting to fit it, preserving their heritage, or trying to be your own person. And also the violence that comes with being an ‘unwanted’ stranger. […]
(Each week, we’ll kick off discussion about Room 104 by answering one simple question: what’s the strangest thing in Room 104?) Room 104 has hosted ghosts, voyeurs, and Mormons. But until this week, no celebrities. Enter Boris, an internationally famous tennis star who’s having an erratic evening. Through his unlikely friendship with a housekeeper, Boris […]
How one tech worker’s story illuminates the plight of H-1B holders. https://media.wired.com/photos/59c54e2e28ec9f55286c4150/master/pass/GW20170131854%5B10%5D.jpg Feed: All Latest
Like many of his peers, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has been an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump’s various proposals to restrict immigration and the number of refugees accepted into the US. On Tuesday, Benioff is putting his company’s money where his mouth is. Salesforce.org, Salesforce’s nonprofit offshoot, is giving $ 12.2 million to the […]
Thomson Reuters You may not know his name but Andy Bechtolsheim is one of the giants of American technology. Born in post-World War II Germany, he’s always been a natural inventor and entrepreneur. “I spent a lot of time building things,” he’s said of his rural boyhood. Unlike most kids, he was taking apart and reassembling […]
Published time: 5 Sep, 2017 15:03 Edited time: 5 Sep, 2017 15:08 The Trump administration said it will phase out the Obama-era program protecting from deportation some 800,000 illegal immigrants who were underage when they arrived. The US Congress will have six months to pass a law regulating their status. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced […]
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit accusing the Trump administration for using “unsubstantiated claims of gang affiliation” to detain immigrant teenagers in “jail-like” facilities in California. The lawsuit charges that US federal authorities — under the guise of a “crackdown” on transnational street gangs — are embarking on a concerted effort to […]
A US court has ruled that a US citizen who spent more than three years in federal immigration custody can not sue, because his false imprisonment claim was “untimely.” The Jamaican-American was also denied the $ 82,500 settlement he previously won. In a 2-1 vote on Monday, the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled […]
