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Privately-run immigrant jails denying detainees masks, dodging responsibility
April 14, 2020Guards would not give out masks until detainees signed forms saying they could not hold the private prison company liable if they got the coronavirus.
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Millions of immigrants pay taxes but won’t get coronavirus stimulus checks
April 13, 2020“COVID-19 does not care about your immigration status, so neither should our response,” U.S. Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat, said.
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Trump, pushing for May 1 “re-opening,” attacks Dr. Fauci
April 13, 2020On Easter weekend, he blames China, the World Health Organization, Obama, governors, Congress, Democrats, and the media for his disastrous handling of coronavirus crisis.
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Under pressure, feds reverse decision to close coronavirus testing sites
April 10, 2020Under pressure from Pennsylvania lawmakers and a report on National Public Radio, the GOP Trump government’s Health and Human Services Department abruptly reversed a ruling to cut off dollars to some 41 community coronavirus testing sites...
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Coronavirus threatens to spread ‘like wildfire’ through U.S. prisons
April 10, 2020Rights advocates say that unless the prison population is drastically reduced the contagion will get out to the general public.
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