Judge Jails Coyote for 9,000-Mile Operation from Indian Ocean
24 May 2021
A judge sentenced a coyote to just two-and-a-half years of prison for trying to smuggle more than 150 illegal migrants almost 9,000 miles to Florida from Sri Lanka, an island just off the coast of India.
Smuggler Sri Kajamukam Chelliah was arrested in 2019 with 154 would-be migrants in a boat off the island nation of Turks and Caicos, and he subsequently negotiated a plea bargain with the Department of Justice.
The ambitious smuggling operation spotlights the worldwide pressure on U.S. borders from poor people seeking higher wages and better lives. For example, Sri Lanka is almost 9,000 miles from Florida and is adjacent to India, where roughly 200 million young people live in deep poverty and frustration.
Why controversies around cultural appropriation and identity politics should not end translations
The act and the art of translation require the permission to transcend borders, the permission to make mistakes and the permission to be repeated. Mar 14, 2021 · 05:30 pm American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington DC. | Patrick Semansky /AFP
In 399 AD, Faxian – a monk in China’s Jin Dynasty – went on a pilgrimage to the Indian subcontinent to collect Buddhist scriptures. Returning after 13 years, he spent the rest of his life translating those texts, profoundly altering Chinese worldviews and changing the face of Asian and world history.
The Ambedkar International Center, a U.S.-based organization fighting against caste discrimination, March 2 approached the California Supreme Court to be admitted as an amicus curiae in a case that involves caste discrimination in the workplace.
Amicus curiae, literally meaning âfriend of the court,â is a person or organization who is not party to the litigation at hand but is allowed to advise the court on a point of law or fact directly concerning the lawsuit.
The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing vs Cisco Systems Inc., Sundar Iyer and Ramana Kompella case of caste discrimination in the workplace is scheduled for hearing this week.
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