Americas Migration Brief - April 22, 2024 migrationbrief.com/p/americas-mig…

Columbia’s formidable Knight First Amendment Institute just issued this statement calling for an urgent “course correction” at the university:

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The investigation followed a flood of sexual misconduct complaints at CIA and what several survivors described as a campaign to keep them from speaking out by saying it could harm national security.

Jim Mustian Farnoush Amiri
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Just an update on this. Five folks were indicted and arrested as part of this 92 million dollar money laundering operation for drug cartels that spanned multiple states and included high quality fake ids and accounts at J.P. Morgan Chase Bank of America & Wells Fargo

Ecuatorianos avalan en consulta popular endurecer lucha contra el crimen (from The Associated Press) Por Gonzalo Solano y Gabriela Molina apnews.com/world-news/gen…

NEW: Some of the 49 migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard by the state of Florida are now able to legally work in the U.S. and have temporary protections from deportation — because they are considered victims of a potential crime under a special Visa

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In 2020, over 80,000 Nigerian women died from complications related to pregnancy, a figure that activists argue highlights the lack of governmental initiative to improve a failing healthcare system. Story by #IWMFgrantee Kasia Strek in @Guardian: theguardian.com/global-develop…

The Festival of Books is this weekend. Authors and attendees, here's how you can help Los Angeles Times journalists who have been working for a year and a half without a contract:

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In Mississippi, prisoners are charged almost $30 for an 8-inch fan. In Delaware, an 8-inch fan at one prison costs almost $40. In Kansas, it would take an incarcerated person, who can earn as little as $0.45/day, 100+ days to afford an 8-inch fan.
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'Judges…have acquitted all crew members of an NGO rescue boat who had been accused of aiding & abetting illegal migration, in a case seen by activists as a symbol of the criminalisation of those who have sought to help at-risk refugees & migrants at sea.' theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

This is helpful and collegial, but a free press means you shouldn't have to use a workaround on social media and call in a favor.

Nigerian chess master Tunde Onakoya is attempting an ambitious challenge to break the record for the longest chess marathon.

He aims to play for 58 consecutive hours and raise $1m (£805,000) for charity in the process. bbc.in/447A37x

In Cd #Juarez and El Paso this week, nearly 1️⃣ year into the Biden asylum ban, people overwhelmingly still don’t know its consequences for entering w/o a CBP1 appt, some don’t know of the CBP1 app & many can’t access it b/c of inequities (see humanrightsfirst.org/library/u-s-po…)

When asked about accusations that Israel violated Leahy Law, which concerns human rights violations of countries that receive U.S. military assistance, Blinken said “You’ll see results very soon. I’ve made determinations. You can expect to see them in the days ahead.”

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The post-disaster restoration business is booming; the mostly immigrant workforce behind it is getting sick from their prolonged exposure to dangerous toxins.

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Hamed Aleaziz Happening now. Plane is in the air from Miami after originating in Alexandria

NEW: US officials plan to deport dozens of Haitians back to Haiti on Thursday, the first US deportation flight to the country in several months, per sources.