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A Pregnant Amazon Employee Asked for a Chair to Sit on—and Wound Up Homeless

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Soon after Genesis found out she was pregnant, in the spring of 2024, she brought a doctor’s note to work. Then 20 years old, Genesis was a “stower” at an Amazon warehouse in Southern California, placing items as heavy as 50 pounds into moving pods. She wanted to continue working full-time to save up for […]

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He Fled Boko Haram and Helped Build an Award-Winning Restaurant. Now He’s Facing Deportation.

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It was Father’s Day, and Suya Joint, a celebrated West African restaurant in Boston, was slammed. Normally, Cecelia Lizotte, the restaurant’s owner and chef, would call her brother, Paul Dama, if she were in a pinch. Lizotte and Dama balanced each other out: Lizotte was the chatty boss who wore chunky jewelry and bright colors, […]

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Watch: A Mother’s Journey Through a Devastating Adoption System

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In the fall of 2018, Tia Goins was a new mother in crisis, facing eviction, unable to find room in a shelter, and confronting the prospect of homelessness in a Detroit winter—with her three-month-old baby. “It was like, what do I do?” Goins said earlier this year. “I just—I just didn’t want her to be […]

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The Trump Administration Is Shutting Down the National Suicide Hotline’s Program for LGBTQ Youth

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The Trump administration is shutting down services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide hotline. Since the hotline’s launch in 2022, hotline callers could press 3 to speak with counselors trained to work specifically with LGBTQ youth, who are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers. The service received half […]

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Inside the Scrappy Network of Volunteers Protecting Their Neighbors From ICE

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The group chat lit up Jonathan Paz’s phone: Another immigration raid was happening a few blocks away. Paz took off running. He arrived minutes later to a quiet block of auto body warehouses in Waltham, Massachusetts, where SUVs with tinted windows had surrounded a sedan and apprehended the driver, a man in his late 20s. […]

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Trump Is Trying to Scrap Basic Protections for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children

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The Trump administration filed a motion Thursday to end the decades-old legal ruling that established basic standards for the treatment and release of migrant children—a move that immigrant rights advocates say they will challenge. The Flores Settlement Agreement, which dates back to 1997, requires the government to move migrant children from jail-like detention facilities to […]

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“The Children Are Being Used as Bait”

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In early March, a seven-year-old boy in immigration custody received good news: He would finally be released to his mother’s care. Months earlier, he had been apprehended as an unaccompanied minor while crossing the US-Mexico border. Since then, he had been staying in a facility run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, waiting for his […]

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HHS Plans to Cut the National Suicide Hotline’s Program for LGBTQ Youth

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The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week. The budget, first reported by the Washington Post, would go into effect in October if approved by Congress. Since the hotline’s launch in 2022, […]

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If Trump Cares So Much About Fentanyl, Why Is He Cutting Addiction Treatment Funding?

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In the name of reducing fentanyl overdoses, the Trump administration has gone to the extreme—levying tariffs against Canada, Mexico, and China; listing cartels as terrorist organizations; calling for the death penalty against drug dealers; and weighing drone strikes in Mexico. “When voters overwhelmingly elected Donald J. Trump as President, they gave him a mandate to […]

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