Tyson Foods launches program to offer team members and families free immigration legal services
The program provides immigration legal consultations to help Tyson team members at the Berryville and Green Forest facilities with needed immigration services. Author: 5NEWS Web Staff Updated: 7:49 PM CST February 26, 2021
SPRINGDALE, Ark. Tyson Foods announced Friday (Feb. 26) that it had launched a program with Arkansas Immigrant Defense (AID), a 501c3 nonprofit law firm in Arkansas, to offer local team members and their families immigration legal services at no cost.
“AID has been providing pro bono legal services to immigrant and refugee children for years. Tyson’s immense generosity will expand our free legal services to include refuge and immigrant hourly team members in Green Forest and Berryville,” said Stephen Coger, lead attorney and executive director at Arkansas Immigrant Defense. This means that hundreds of our immigrant neighb
When will ICE detainees get vaccinated? I don t know, state official says
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Murkiness surrounding how the people held in federal immigration detention centers in California will get vaccinated, and who will administer those shots, is frustrating some Democratic legislators and immigrant advocates.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has said the federal government is allocating COVID-19 vaccines for immigrant detainees to state and local health departments. State officials, meanwhile, have not provided any proposals for vaccinating this population.
“It’s clear that public health authorities at the state and local level have at least some role to play, whether it’s providing the vaccine or simply being involved in the coordination and distribution of the vaccine,” said Hamid Yazdan Panah, advocacy director for Immigrant Defense Advocates. “At the very least, public health officials have a role to play in terms of providing information and ed
Who takes responsibility for vaccinating detainees? “I don’t know,” said California’s surgeon general. Author: Ana B. Ibarra, CALmatters Published: 8:45 PM PST February 22, 2021 Updated: 8:45 PM PST February 22, 2021
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Who is responsible for vaccinating immigrants in California’s detention centers? Neither state officials nor federal agencies have taken responsibility.
In the midst of this chaos, one county, San Diego, has already taken action and sent doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to a local detention center. But another county, San Bernardino, is awaiting instructions from state health officials on when detainees will become eligible for shots.
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San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is representing four racial and immigrant justice groups Just Futures Law, MediaJustice, Mijente Support Committee, and the Immigrant Defense Project suing the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for withholding critical records about the collection and sharing of data during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The four groups all filed FOIA requests for information about COVID-related surveillance and data analysis last year. In particular, the groups are worried about HHS Protect, a vast secretive data platform designed by controversial data software company Palantir. Palantir has a long history of building surveillance systems for the Department of Homeland Security that facilitate criminal prosecutions, family separation, and raids that lead to detention and deportation. In July of last year, the government required all hospitals to report COVID-19 infection d