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A raid on a San Diego restaurant in May. (AP Photo)

Over the course of this blog, News 21 readers have learned about Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in Postville, Iowa, Laurel, Miss. and Greenville, S.C. Each of these raids led to the detention of hundreds of immigrants, the disruption of communities and widespread outcry. Now, [...]

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When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided a San Francisco home earlier this month, they arrested all of the adults and may have left a 15-year-old child to fend for herself. Now, San Francisco officials are expressing outrage over the situation.

England, which has its own immigration controversies, also has immigration raids, though not on the [...]

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In Laurel, Miss., where 595 suspected illegal immigrants were arrested in an ICE raid on a Howard Industries plant earlier this month, the fall-out has yet to settle. The ACLU is investigating charges that workers were segregated by ethnicity and arrested immigrants denied counsel. Locally, the families of arrested immigrants are living in uncertainty, while [...]

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By Angela Nitzke/Medill

 
Humans won’t go extinct if the planet warms up a few degrees, surmised Richard, who sat next to me on my flight from Anchorage to Chicago.  Probably true, but a lot could change that would influence the way we live our lives. And in Alaska, climate change is not a computer modeled prediction. [...]

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