San Diego County implements free legal defense program for illegal immigrants facing deportation

san-diego” target=”_blank”>San Diego’s< testing on migrants. The county’s public defender’s office and legal nonprofits will be tasked with representing detainees at the federal Otay Mesa Detention Center, according to the San Diego Union Tribune. The one-year pilot program will cost taxpayers $5 million and is reportedly the first of its kind implemented in a county…

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Biden admin confirms talks about using Veterans Affairs resources to treat migrants at southern border

executive Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas confirmed that his department is in talks to divert Veterans Affairs (VA) resources, doctors and nurses to help care for immigration” target=”_blank”>illegal immigrants< Mayorkas first attempted to skirt around the question. “Let me be clear, because an interagency effort is precisely what the challenge of migration requires – and it’s not…

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Biden admin proposes removing Trump-era data collection on sexual assaults committed by teachers

The Department of education” target=”_blank”>Education<, prompting concerns about transparency in reporting faculty misconduct. Data collection, under last week’s proposal, would continue to include the number of documented incidents at a given school, but would retire Trump-era reporting on “rape or attempted rape, or sexual assault” allegations that were followed by “a resignation or retirement prior…

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Girl, 8, designs portable classroom after school she helped build for refugees burns down

An 8-year-old girl who wants to make education” target=”_blank”>education accessible<, spent 18 months designing her SHINE boxes – 33-pound, portable classrooms that include six seats or 12 lap desks, shelves and a loom.  The SHINE boxes will be piloted in Uganda later this month, according to her nonprofit, Paisleys Pals. “They need more help than…

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These lawmakers say they won't attend Biden's address to Congress

Seating for joe-biden” target=”_blank”>President Biden< will be very limited Wednesday night, so many lawmakers will be skipping the event. Instead of 1,600 people crowded into a House chamber for a regular State of the Union address, just 200 people will be attending Biden’s first marquee event before Congress, House Speaker nancy-pelosi” target=”_blank”>Nancy Pelosi< Meanwhile, other GOP lawmakers…

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