The Wayland Woman’s Club held its monthly meeting September 28, 2022 at the Spotswood Country Club. The club presented a check for $1500.00 to a second year practical nursing student,
Linn County holds informational meeting on solar projects
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PALO, Iowa (KWWL) A utility-scale solar plant generates a large amount of electricity.
On Tuesday, Linn County held the first of two informational meetings to inform residents about the permitting and public input processes for a solar project. The meetings are not specific to any solar project as Linn County has not received an application for one.
Sara Ritchie lives in rural Center Point. Just conversations that there have been salesmen coming around trying to lease land for solar, Ritchie said, It just felt odd, like, why here? Because it s very residential
Late at night, the US is expelling migrants back into dangerous Mexico border cities Dianne Solis and Alfredo Corchado
REYNOSA, Mexico Juan Felipe Rodriguez slouched with his back against the wall of the Mexican government building at the international bridge across the Rio Grande. His 7-year-old son still slumbered under a Mylar blanket on the cement next to him.
After traveling north from Guatemala, they crossed into the United States only to soon find themselves rapidly expelled back into Mexico. They arrived at this point of misery at 1 a.m., he said, in a border city he didn’t know, save for its reputation for danger.
Late at night, the U.S. is expelling migrants back into dangerous Mexico border cities
“These people are deliberately put in harm’s way,” says a Mexican shelter director.
A migrant woman brushes her hair as she and other expelled migrants sit at a plaza near the international bridge leading into the Mexican border city of Reynosa on Wednesday, March 31, 2021. The U.S. continues to expel migrants under Title 42 a pandemic-related public order still in place and left over from the Trump administration.(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)
REYNOSA, Mexico Juan Felipe Rodriguez slouched with his back against the wall of the Mexican government building at the international bridge across the Rio Grande. His 7-year-old son still slumbered under a Mylar blanket on the cement next to him.
Migrant children from Central America take refuge from the rain in the back of a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle in Penitas, Texas, March 14, 2021, as they await to be transported after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States. (CNS photo/Adrees Latif, Reuters)
Some things have changed on the southern border, but a lot of things remain the same, according to Catholic humanitarian groups on the ground.
The Biden administration last month began processing the asylum applications of migrants under the current Migrant Protection Protocols, a Trump administration policy that empowered immigration officials to return thousands of asylum seekers to Mexico to await court decisions in the immigration court system. The highest concentration of migrants have been waiting in Ciudad Juárez, just south of El Paso, Tex.