Bobbi-Jeanne Misick

1 month ago | veritenews.org | Bobbi-Jeanne Misick

Stephanie Ali did not think she and her family were being deported to Honduras in late January, until they reached their gate inside a Houston airport. Earlier that day, she, her mother Claudia Hernandez and younger brother Jason met with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents near their home in a suburb of New Orleans, where they were told they were going to Houston for a hearing in immigration court, Stephanie said.

1 month ago | shorturl.at | Bobbi-Jeanne Misick

Stephanie Ali did not think she and her family were being deported to Honduras in late January, until they reached their gate inside a Houston airport. Earlier that day, she, her mother Claudia Hernandez and younger brother Jason met with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents near their home in a suburb of New Orleans, where they were told they were going to Houston for a hearing in immigration court, Stephanie said.

1 month ago | veritenews.org | Bobbi-Jeanne Misick

One year after a contracting scandal led to a governing shakeup at the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority’s governing body, the public transit agency once again finally has a full governing board. Local transgender rights activist Mariah Moore, who was appointed by New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, was sworn in to the board at the beginning of the monthly commissioners meeting for February on Tuesday (Feb. 25).

1 month ago | veritenews.org | Bobbi-Jeanne Misick

In late January, Liv Thomas received an alert from someone concerned that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had possibly shown up at Bonnabel High School in Kenner looking for students who were undocumented immigrants. The week before, the Trump administration had authorized immigration enforcement agencies to target schools, hospitals and churches – areas previously deemed off-limits.

2 months ago | veritenews.org | Bobbi-Jeanne Misick

In 2022, Tulane University professor Marilyn Miller participated in a ceremony for a traveling exhibit called “Ireichō” — the first-ever effort to document every person of Japanese descent sent to live in concentration camps around the country under orders from the federal government during World War II. For the ceremony, Miller collected soil on a plot of land in Algiers scattered with old, fenced-off brick buildings along the Mississippi River Levee.