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Russia detains man accused of building fake border in the forest to trick migrants

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     For this week's blog post I decided to focus on a CNN article written by Zahra Ullah. In this article she describes how a man is accused of building a fake border crossing in order to trick and out migrants. He has been detained by Russian authorities.       The suspect created a fake frontier near Russia's border with Finland and deceived four people who thought they were being smuggled into the European Union. According to Russian state news agency TASS, the migrants are reportedly from South Asia and have been arrested. The suspect is a former Soviet republic country, and installed makeshift signs and posts in a forest in the Leningrad region to trick migrants that they were crossing into the European Union. He reportedly charged each migrants 11,000 to help them cross into Finland. When the conman took the migrants to Leningrad's Vyborg District , where he set up the fake border, all of them were stopped and detained by Russian border guards.       A St. P
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Dutch Soccer set for widespread protest against Racism

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                                                                                                                       For this weeks blog I decided to focus on a CNN article written by Ben Church. In his article he explains the ongoing racism occurring in the sport of football, a beloved game in Europe.      Professional soccer players in Holland will stand still for the first minute of this weekend's upcoming matches to protest against racism in the game. The two top flight leagues in the country, The Erdivisie and Eerste Divisie came to the joint decision to temporarily suspend play after game kick off by displaying the slogan "Racism? The we don't play football!" all around the stadium.       These protests come after a second division game between FC Den Bosch and Excelsior was stopped due to alleged racist abuse earlier this month. Excelsior play Ahmad Moreira was subjected to racist chanting by home fans which also included songs about "Blac
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Video of Transgender who died in Ice Custody may have been deleted

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   For this week I decided to focus on a CNN Article written by Catherine E. Sholchet. In this article, Sholcet talks about the recent Roxsana Hernandez, a transgender woman from Honduras who died while in ICE custody in New Mexico last year. Andrew Free, a transgender Law Center attorney who is working on Hernandez's case revealed that the surveillance video which contains footage of the events leading up to Roxsana Hernandez's death may have been deleted. The privately run ICE detention facility explains that the footage is held in memory for 90 days and the request for the footage was filed 3 months after the casualty. One key finding for Hernandez' death was that Hernandez didn't get the HIV medication she needed, according to other immigrants she was held with, they pleaded to the detention officers multiple times to give Hernandez the medical attention she needed. Hernandez died only one day after being placed in the Cibola County Correctional facility. 
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EU Citizens in Britain facing Deportation

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For this weeks blog, I decided to write about a CNN article written by Rob Picheta. In this article, Picheta talks about European Union citizens living in the UK who could possibly be deported if they don't apply for settled status after a no-deal Brexit. Security minister Brandon Lewis recently told German newspaper the government will start removing residents who haven't applied to stay in the UK by the end of 2020. In order to apply for settled status one must prove their identity, prove that they live in the UK, and declare any criminal convictions. To date, the Home Office has reported 61% application were granted settled status, 38% were granted pre-settled status and two applications were rejected on "suitability grounds".  Many EU citizens who have lived in the UK for most of their lives are in danger of losing their homes, and I believe that this is unfair. Citizens should not suffer the consequences of a dysfunctional government.   EU citizens in Br
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Apple employs 443 DACA recipients

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     For this week's blog, I decided to focus on a CNN article written by Claire Duffy. In this article, she explains Apple's latest move to employ over 443 DACA recipients. This was done to take a jab at the Trump administration and their recent actions of rescinding DACA in September of 2017. Apple CEO Tim Cook explains that these DACA recipients weren't hired out of "kindness or charity" rather they were hired because Dreamers embody Apple's innovation strategy. Furthermore, Cook emphasizes that the unique backgrounds and tangible skills of these Dreamers make the company more successful. I think this is inspiring and gives a lot of these Dreamers make the company more successful. I think this is inspiring and gives a lot of hope for other DACA recipients out there. There is a huge misconception that people from other countries "steal jobs" from Americans, but what these people don't realize is that these jobs are open to anyone as long as t
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US Asylum Deal with Honduras

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     For this week's blog, I chose to write about a CNN article written by Priscilla Alvarez. This article talks about an asylum deal that the United States and Honduras have agreed upon. This asylum deal would allow the US to send asylum seekers back to Honduras if they didn't properly claim asylum when they first passed through the country. The US came to this deal to help stop the flow of immigrants seeking asylum into the US. This same type of treaty is in place with El Salvador and Guatemala as well. Immigrants who are seeking asylum will now be sent to Mexico for the duration of the proceedings or risk being sent back to their native country. Although, many people are opposing this and arguing that many immigrants face grave danger if they are sent back to Honduras due to the dangerous crime taking place in the country.   US Asylum deal with Honduras
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Immigration Court

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     For this weeks article, I chose to write about a CNN article written by Priscilla Alvarez. This article talks about the Immigration Court and how it is becoming ineffective. In the last week, the Immigration court backlog exceeded over 1 million cases. Immigration court judge Ashley Tabaddor stated, "Until we fix the design defect of having a court in a law enforcement agency, we will not be able to address the backlog in a fair and effective manner". In an effort to try and help this "problem" Trump's administration is working on hiring more immigration judges to tackle these backlog cases.  Furthermore, the American Bar association proposed a major overhaul of the US Immigration system and even called the courts "irredeemably dysfunctional".  While reading this article I began to wonder why the deportation of Immigrants is so crucial when we don't even have a system in place to properly deal with it.  Immigration court backlog exceeds 1
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