Winter Storm Brings Dangerous Ice, Cold to Mississippi
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency is encouraging people to stay off the roads as freezing winter weather continues.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency is encouraging people to stay off the roads as freezing winter weather continues.
A 16-year-old Guatemalan immigrant worker became the third worker to die at a Hattiesburg, Miss., poultry plant since 2020 after a machinery-related accident last week.
University of Mississippi School of Law MacArthur Justice Center Director Cliff Johnson and Immigrant Alliance for Justice and Equity Executive Director Lorena Quinoz explained the benefits of “deferred action” for workers affected by 2019 Mississippi ICE raids.
U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, who represents Mississippi’s Second District, wrote to Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Tae D. Johnson, asking him to consider releasing 28-year-old Lladi Ambrocio-Garcia from detention.
Much like the North Carolina legislators, those in Mississippi based their arguments on claims about who is fit to have children, specifically those on government assistance. Rep. Walter Meek of Eupora, Miss., said that “the State of Mississippi is subsidizing illegitimacy through welfare payments, and that the moral structure has completely broken down in some segments of society.”
Since mid-April, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has confirmed more COVID-19 cases among detained immigrants at a private prison in Natchez, Miss., than ICE had reported during the prior 13 months since the pandemic began.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Mississippi are calling on President Joe Biden’s administration to shut down 39 ICE detention facilities—including the Adams County Detention Center east of Natchez.
U.S. House Rep. Steven Palazzo sent mixed signals on his two Facebook pages this week as he criticized President Joe Biden’s handling of immigration issues from two seemingly conflicting angles.
Local law enforcement’s “entanglement” with federal immigration agencies instills “fear across Mississippi’s immigrant communities” and introduces “a host of public safety hazards,” the American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi said today while announcing “Unalienable,” a statewide campaign designed to change that dynamic.
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