Omar Mohammed
Economics Reporter at The Boston Globe
economics reporter @BostonGlobe. @Bagehots fellow and graduate @ColumbiaJournMA. Alum @Newsweek, @Reuters, @business & @QZ.
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bostonglobe.com | Omar Mohammed |Scooty Nickerson
Short-term visa holders who overstay their visit to the US make up a significant part of immigrants who become undocumented, according to immigration experts, even as the overall rate of visitors who remain in the country beyond the period allowed is significantly low. Nearly 400,000 people who had these visas issued in the 2023 fiscal year have remained beyond their allowed stay, according to the most recent estimate by the federal government.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Omar Mohammed
Boston-area Jewish leaders on Thursday said they were devastated by the shooting and killing of two Israeli embassy staff members in Washington, D.C., who were departing an event at a Jewish museum. Rabbi Marc Baker, the president and CEO of Combined Jewish Philanthropies, an umbrella organization that supports Jewish institutions across Greater Boston, said that the community is in shock.
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2 weeks ago |
blogs.timesofisrael.com | Omar Mohammed
The killing of two Israeli embassy staff members on the steps of the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, should leave no room for ambiguity: This was not only a heinous act of violence but a watershed moment in the evolving landscape of antisemitic extremism in the United States.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Brian MacQuarrie |Omar Mohammed |Steven Porter |Diti Kohli
“I do not like the way ICE is handling it, to go into or wait outside churches and grocery stores,” said Sysyn, an independent voter. “You know, go after people for the color of their skin or something and harass the American people.” Social media sites have been rife with recurring scenes of masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arresting migrants and foreign students in the streets, including Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk on a Somerville sidewalk.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Danny McDonald |Omar Mohammed
GLOUCESTER — Here, in America‘s oldest port of its kind, where the squawk of gulls offers a constant soundtrack to life on the docks, the iconic, centuries-old commercial fishing industry used to be much, much better. There were, fishermen recalled, more boats making more money, fewer rules, and more opportunity. In their telling, federal authorities overstepped in a misguided effort to protect fish stocks, with rules that have strangled their beloved way of life.
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