Aleja Hertzler-McCain
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Reporter @RNS covering Latino faith & Catholicism | bylines @NPR, @washingtonpost, @AP | đ”đ· del DMV | Se habla español | Signal: AlejaCorazonHM.47
Joined September 2021
CBS News Exclusive: Fewer than one-third of the individuals arrested by Border Patrol during the Trump administration's recent immigration enforcement crackdown in Charlotte were classified as criminals, according to an internal DHS document. https://t.co/GAFr9UyT9X
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Fewer than one-third of those arrested by Border Patrol during the recent immigration crackdown in Charlotte were classified as criminals, a government document says.
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NEW: Biden commuted the death sentences of most people on the federal death row before exiting office. Now Trump is looking to detain them in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports: https://t.co/5NzSBepoHa
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Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation.
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New: Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
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Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the...
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New from me: By appealing to maternal concerns about what kids eat or learn, conservative Christian âmomfluencersâ are creating an on-ramp for conservative political engagement that many of them frame as part of a spiritual war.
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(RNS) â 'Nothing is politically more powerful than an angry mother,' conservative wellness influencer Alex Clark told RNS.
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this is such a wild media story and just the latest reminder that weâre going to need so many new ways of verifying whatâs real and not with AI
thelocal.to
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
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Via @rhina_guidos in Cuba for NCR - After hurricane, mosquito-transmitted diseases pile on top of Cuba's troubles. âYou can't go anywhere on the island without hearing about âel virus.ââ #virus #Cuba #health #Catholic
https://t.co/O75cPjFm8m via @NCRonline
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The viral illness comes on the heels of Cuba's slow recovery from Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall Oct. 29 in Santiago de Cuba in the eastern part of the island as a Category 3 storm.
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tl;dr â An immigration judge who denies 98% of asylum claims is sending creepy, robotic text-to-speech AI voiceovers of his court rulings to asylum seekers. Iâm actually surprised this story has gone mostly unnoticed.
migrantinsider.com
Newly obtained EOIR records reveal Judge John P. Burns uses artificial intelligence for courtroom decisions, deepening concerns about politicized hiring, secrecy, and the slow automation of justice.
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âIt is very evil and itâs hard to watch...but if you can find where to look, itâs not hard to be inspired by all the people standing up to fight it.â - a pastor in Greensboro, North Carolina đđœ
NEW from me: Everyday people are reminding the nation what it means to be American. A Baker, a Pastor, and Charlotteâs Stand Against ICE https://t.co/E3ilzAoRdM via @BulwarkOnline
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ICYMI: The streets of Harare were covered w/ motorists driving the massively popular Toyota HiLux, bright purple flowers blossoming from jacaranda trees & billboards advertising the recent appearance of Benny Hinn. Why Hinn matters to the UMC in Zimbabwe:
tennessean.com
As part of UMC splintering, factionalism in Africa pushed rivals to double down on traditionalism. But generational change may upend that stability.
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The exodus of corrections officers from federal prisons to ICE comes amid shortages of critical supplies, from food to personal hygiene items, for both staff and inmates. It threatens to make the already grim conditions in these prisons even worse. https://t.co/tBGj68QmyL
propublica.org
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
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Via @AlejaCorazonHM in NCR - Viral warnings of planned ICE raids on churches have pastors worried. "Maybe we shouldn't be doing this in America." #ICE #church #faith #immigrants
https://t.co/G9PnmpgsrI via @NCRonline
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Rumors and viral reports about potential ICE raids have immigrant church leaders worried about their congregations. DHS says it doesnât have plans to raid churches â but won't rule it out.
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Viral warnings of planned #ICE raids on churches have pastors worried https://t.co/79LjnW8Omc
@AlejaCorazonHM @jackmjenkins
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(RNS) â Rumors and viral reports about potential ICE raids have immigrant church leaders worried about their congregations. DHS says it doesnât have plans to raid churches â but wonât rule it out.
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Key detail in here: We asked Rev. Clint Pressley, president of the SBC, about claims he was briefed on a govt church raids plan. He called that "completely fabricated," then spoke against church raids: âLaw and order should prevail and can prevail without raiding churches."
NEW from @bobsmietana, @AlejaCorazonHM and me: Viral warnings of planned ICE raids on churches have pastors worried. And yes, we did some digging about *that* viral church raids story that has been floating around.
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NEW from me: Catholic clergy, nuns sue Trump admin over Communion access for ICE detainees. More than 60 religious groups/denominations, 10 religious professionals and 5 individual religious practitioners have sued the Trump administration this year.
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(RNS) â âThe Catholic Church recognizes service to people on the margins as corporal works of mercy that are cornerstones of Christianity,â the legal complaint reads.
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NEW from @bobsmietana, @AlejaCorazonHM and me: Viral warnings of planned ICE raids on churches have pastors worried. And yes, we did some digging about *that* viral church raids story that has been floating around.
religionnews.com
(RNS) â Rumors and viral reports about potential ICE raids have immigrant church leaders worried about their congregations. DHS says it doesnât have plans to raid churches â but wonât rule it out.
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For the last two years, Iâve been quietly working with an amazing investigative team at Bloomberg Law to mine the federal court system for systematic policy failures. The first story of our investigation series just dropped and itâs a deeply reporting and tragic look at dozens of
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A yearlong investigation from Bloomberg Law and NBC News reveals systemic failures related to pregnant women in jails.
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Virginia's Episcopal bishop says diocese identified sources for $10M reparations fund https://t.co/AbwGocfDtI
@fiona_ndre @AlejaCorazonHM
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(RNS) â The announcement came after former Racial Reparations Task Force members expressed doubts over the dioceseâs commitment to deliver on its 2021 promise and uncertainty about its ability to...
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UPDATED: here is my story. @CDCgov web page now promotes false vaccines-autism link it repudiated for decades. Career scientists said they were blindsided. https://t.co/WcmYjfCVQ0
washingtonpost.com
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), who voted to confirm Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after he pledged not to remove language stating vaccines do not cause autism from the CDC website,...
NEW: @CDCgov has overhauled its web page on vaccines and autism. On top, what the CDC webpage said before. And on bottom, revisions made Wednesday. Story coming shortly.
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Pope Leo XIV Meets Catholic Mother Who Lost Son to AI Chatbot Suicide I was passionate about telling this story because parents, educators, everyone needs to know the risks. Meganâs faith amid such suffering is so inspiring. I was writing through tears: https://t.co/YTLMrpCqDZ
ncregister.com
Megan Garcia said her faith has given her strength to speak out about her ordeal in the hope of protecting children from the risks posed by new AI chatbots.
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Screenshots of text messages obtained by The Associated Press offer a rare look at how the nation's 75 immigration courts are churning out rulings in an assembly-line like fashion and how, for many people, the courtrooms have become deportation traps. https://t.co/Huz20BbG9l
apnews.com
The nation's immigration courts have undergone a fundamental change under the administration of President Donald Trump.
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