immigration
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Many are waiting on an asylum interview or are in immigration limbo because of recent policy changes, said Valentina Coriat, a Venezuelan-born immigration attorney in Miami who herself has no intention of moving back.
Some immigration detention contracts also include transportation services.
Established by Congress in 1990, the government can grant temporary legal immigration status to people from countries facing war or disaster.
But she also said that Angelenos needed to unite in the face of immigration raids, the homelessness crisis and the fires that burned in the city last year.
From Los Angeles Times
Both men were assigned to Operation Metro Surge, an immigration enforcement dragnet launched in December that sent scores of armed and masked agents across the city.
From Salon
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