The deputy director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services was requesting 1.2 billion from Congress to bail out the agency from their budget deficits. Last March, they closed most of their offices to mitigate the transmission of the coronavirus.
Over two thousand asylum seekers are living in the encampment at the U.S.-Mexico border in Matamoros, Mexico while they wait for their court hearing in the United States.
In an interview last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a cut in the budgets for the year 2020-2021 in the state. As of yet, he said $203 million was the overall budget, with $133 billion reserved for the general funds.
Among the many issues that threaten Nicolás Maduro’s legitimacy as Venezuelan president now includes accounts of Cuban doctors that explain how their medical missions involved methods of coercion in favor of the country’s Socialist Party.
Despite being remote and isolated from any urban life, the coronavirus is reaching more indigenous groups in the Amazon. With no near healthcare infrastructures and a lack of medical workers, tribes are struggling to survive as the federal governments are handling other priorities.
California becomes the first state in the U.S. to provide financial grants for undocumented immigrants who are deemed illegible for the stimulus checks in the CARES Act.
People in Brazil are targeting pro-China authorities. Vice President Hamilton Mourão and Minister of Agriculture Tereza Cristina are being dragged especially by Bolsonaro supporters because of their close ties with China.
John Logan’s City of Angels is such a different part of the world of the original Penny Dreadful series, but it still exists in the same netherworld through the folklore and traditional tales.
As common household products and medical supplies are shelved out of stores and demand for these are at an all-time high. Criminals have taken advantage of the pandemic by selling fake products and equipment for illicit profit, and officers are on the case.
Brazilian health minister Nelson Teich filed his resignation mere weeks into the job. Before this, he had many disagreements with President Jair Bolsonaro regarding health measures, or lack thereof.