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.
Karen Musalo, an expert on refugee law at the University of California College of the Law in San Francisco, explains what the new asylum rule entails, what its impact will be and why it is so controversial.
“I’ve been researching human rights and immigration from Central America since the 1980s,” Elizabeth Oglesby writes. “In today’s polarized debates over immigration, the substantial contributions that Central American immigrants have made to U.S. society over the past 30 years rarely come up.”
The undocumented immigrants living at the Westside Trailer Park in Canton, Miss., petitioned the Canton Municipal Utilities, which restored their street lights in July 2022 after several years of darkness. They have set their eyes on getting their roads fixed.
Republicans in Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District have nominated Brian Flowers, who has accused incumbent Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of “treasonous” activities, to run against him in November’s elections.
Brian Flowers, a Republican hoping to displace Democratic U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson in Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District, claims the incumbent is providing “treasonous assistance” in support of an “immigrant invasion.”
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.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that challenged a 1924 Mississippi law that required naturalized citizens to show proof of citizenship in order to vote. Both the plaintiffs and the defendants, including the Mississippi secretary of state, asked for the dismissal after the Legislature adopted a new law this spring that addresses concerns immigrant and voting rights groups raised.
Lladi Ambrocio-Garcia was among the 680 people arrested in August 2019 following raids on seven poultry plants in Mississippi, including at Koch Foods in Morton, Miss., where she had worked as a chicken cutter for some months.
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