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Children lie inside a pod at the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas, March 30, 2021. A company that provides services for immigrants in federal detention was ordered Tuesday, April 2, 2024, to pay more than $811 million in restitution and penalties in a lawsuit alleging it used deceptive and abusive tactics. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool, File)

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Company helping immigrants in detention ordered to pay $811M+ in lawsuit alleging deceptive tactics
By PHILIP MARCELO - Associated Press
Tue,04/02/24-5:51PM , 41 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — A company that provides services for immigrants in federal detention was ordered Tuesday to pay more than $811 million in restitution and penalties in a lawsuit alleging it used deceptive and abusive tactics.
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Imam Omar Niass leads evening prayers with mostly Senegalese migrants, before the breaking of Ramadan fast and the serving of a festive meal called an iftar, Friday March 15, 2024, at Bronx's Masjid Ansaru-Deen mosque in New York. The mosque, formerly the Imam's home, has been a refuge since 2020 where hundreds of African migrants can find help while seeking asylum in the United States. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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Mosques in NYC struggle to house and feed an influx of Muslim migrants this Ramadan
By PHILIP MARCELO - Associated Press
Mon,04/01/24-11:16PM , 83 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Above a bodega in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood, a mosque congregation hosts iftar, the traditional Islamic end of fast meal, for hundreds of hungry migrants every night during this holy month of Ramadan.
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A couple of heavily armed New York National Guard soldiers patrol Grand Central terminal, Thursday, March 7, 2024, in New York. Gov. Kathy Hochul is sending the National Guard to the New York City subway system to help police search passengers’ bags for weapons. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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Transit crime is back as a top concern in some US cities, and political leaders have taken notice
By PHILIP MARCELO - Associated Press
Thu,03/07/24-4:31PM , 82 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Fear of crime on subways and buses is back as a top concern in some U.S. cities, and so are efforts to persuade public officials to take the issue seriously.
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In this courtroom sketch in Federal court, in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, seated center at the defense table, is flanked by his attorneys at the start of his trial. Nearly two years after his arrest and extradition to the U.S., Hernandez went on trial Tuesday in Manhattan federal court on drug trafficking and weapons charges. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

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Honduran ex-president accused of running his country as a ‘narco-state’ stands trial in NYC
By PHILIP MARCELO - Associated Press
Tue,02/20/24-7:27AM , 59 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was once touted by U.S. authorities as a key ally in the war on drugs.
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