42 niños inmigrantes dan positivo al COVID-19 en centros de detención de Heartland
Cailey Gleeson and Hillary Flores
May 3, 2020
En lo que puede ser el mayor brote de coronavirus en un centro de detención de inmigrantes para menores en los Estados Unidos, al menos 42 niños y dos empleados han dado positivo al coronavirus en las instalaciones de Heartland Alliance en Chicago. "Después de recibir los resultados del 100%...
42 immigrant children test positive for COVID-19 at Heartland detention centers
Cailey Gleeson, Nation & World Editor
May 2, 2020
In what may be the largest outbreak of coronavirus in an immigrant detention center for minors in the United States, at least 42 children and two employees have tested positive for coronavirus at Heartland Alliance facilities around Chicago. “After receiving the results on 100% of the children in our sh...
Trump says he’ll ‘suspend immigration,’ offers no details
April 21, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that he will sign an executive order “to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States” because of the coronavirus. “In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American...
OPINIÓN: Los detenidos de ICE siguen siendo tratados inhumanamente, incluso durante esta pandemia
Sara Luz Torres, Staff Writer
April 17, 2020
Las detenciones de Inmigración y Aduanas y las prácticas en los centros de detención se han convertido en un tema centralizado durante la propagación del COVID-19. Este virus ha afectado a todos a nivel mundial– algunos más que otros. Aunque hay personas que tienen el privilegio de trabaj...
Immigrant children being detained across Chicago
Cailey Gleeson, Fatima Zaidi, Xavier Ortega, Jovana Vajagic, and Olivia Wageman
March 8, 2020
A controversial new Trump administration policy has sharply reduced the number of immigrant children detained in five Chicago shelters run by Heartland Alliance, a non-profit that has been under fire from activists for its role in harboring children detained without parents or legal guardians. The ...
Miedo de estudiantes indocumentados aumenta por detenciones realizadas por ICE
Maria Guerrero, La DePaulia Managing Editor
March 5, 2020
El miedo de los estudiantes indocumentados ha aumentado después de que una estudiante, Meydi Guzmán Rivas, de Crystal Lake Central High School fuese detenida por el U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement desde octubre de 2019. Guzmán Rivas–quien llegó a los Estados Unidos huyendo de la viole...
Trump seeks Supreme Court approval to speed deportations
March 1, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — The man slipped into the U.S from Tijuana, Mexico, and made it just 25 yards from the border before he was arrested. A seven-month journey from Sri Lanka was over for Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam. Now he would be able to tell an American official why he had fled the place he had ...
OPINIÓN: Creciendo como latinoamericano, siempre enfrentaremos la lucha de ser “ni de aqui, ni de allá”
Jovan Gonzalez and Izabella Grimaldo
February 25, 2020
Muchos Latinos en los Estados Unidos no coinciden con la misma narrativa, constantemente enfrentan una lucha con "ni de aqui, ni de alla" que les complica ser ellos mismos con esencia de donde son. Cómo latino crecido en los Estados Unidos, generalmente haces tu propia identidad mientras adoptas cosa...
Trump under fire for sanctuary cities crackdown
Abbas Dahodwala, Contributing Writer
February 23, 2020
Experts are questioning the motives and potential effects of the Trump administration's recent move to send elite tactical agents to sanctuary cities across the United States. The tactical agents’ potential arrivals in sanctuary cities comes shortly before the 2020 census measurement. These tact...
OPINION: Immigrants should not fear the census
Adriana Talavera, Contributing Writer
February 16, 2020
Three years ago I left Mexico, my family and friends and I moved to Chicago. The city welcomed me with open arms and midwestern hospitality, and eventually it became my second home. Sadly, this story is not the same for every immigrant that has arrived to the United States. A lot of us have deal...
OPINIÓN: El sueño americano no se puede alcanzar
Jovan Gonzalez, Contributing Writer
February 15, 2020
El sueño americano puede reflejarse distintamente. Puede ser en encontrar un trabajo, tener una casa, o el fin de tener a tu familia segura y junta. Pero, la administración actual ha creado barreras entre las comunidades de la nación– convirtiendo este sueño en un concepto controvertido, e...
Chicago-area student freed from immigrant detention center
February 14, 2020
A suburban Chicago high school student was released from a southern Illinois immigrant detention center with supporters planning to continue a fight against her deportation to Honduras. Meydi Guzman, 18, was granted bond Wednesday from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. Sara Huser,...
