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Day: August 18, 2018

Legal Collective Aims To Help Ex-NoDAPL Activists Resolve Warrants

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US, (PT) Scores of people who resisted the Dakota Access Pipeline are still trailed by outstanding warrants. Many either don’t have legal representation, or aren’t even aware they have active warrants. Hundreds traveled from across America to support the pipeline resistance from 2016-2017, making the over 100 outstanding warrants a national issue. To help resolve them, the Water Protector Legal Collective (WPLC) is offering its expertise to former NoDAPL activists. “Staff hope to have informal face-to-face conversations in a relaxed, familiar setting in which they can explain what Protectors can…

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Asylum-seekers say they cross the border illegally because they don’t think they have other options

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United States (TexasTribune) – After a cop took Claudia to a field, grabbed her by the throat and threatened to kill her and her 7-year-old son Kevin this spring, it didn’t take long for the 26-year-old single mother to decide it was time to get out of El Salvador. What happened next illustrates why so few Central American migrants enter the country the “right way” — at the international bridges, or ports of entry, where migrants can request asylum without crossing the border illegally. Claudia said she quickly called a friend who…

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Office of Refugee Resettlement quietly removes entire staff directory webpage

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United States (Sunlight) – The Office of Refugee Resettlement removed its staff directory from its website, likely between October and December of last year. The change came just before the political firestorm over the Trump administration’s family separation policy at the border and accusations that the office has failed to communicate transparently with the public during the controversy. The Web Integrity Project’s latest report documents the takedown of an entire page containing staff contact information from the website of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), the office within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that…

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