Sarah Matusek
Denver Bureau Chief at The Christian Science Monitor
Denver bureau chief @csmonitor • Reporting on ideas in the Mountain West & immigration in the interior • Tips & trail recs: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
csmonitor.com | Patrik Jonsson |Sarah Matusek |Ali Martin
Ten days after raids by federal immigration officials in Los Angeles set off a national protest movement, a Hispanic woman walks through the city’s Canoga Park neighborhood. She says she won’t give her name for concern that she might risk trouble for herself or others. In fact, she won’t say much. But the quiet streets evoke a broader phenomenon sweeping the United States.
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4 weeks ago |
csmonitor.com | Sarah Matusek |Alfredo Sosa
On a bumpy dirt-road drive through a watermelon farm, Kate Hobbs points out the flood plain. There’s a 1 in 100 chance of a major flood each year, she says. Hard rains haven’t come to this farm near Normandy, Texas, but people have – thousands in recent years. The flood plain is where her husband had just arrived before calling her, upset, on Mother’s Day 2021. She was cooking at the house. He told her he’d found five little girls, stranded.
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1 month ago |
csmonitor.com | Sarah Matusek
As the president pushes for mass deportations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a new strategy for arresting immigrants. First, ICE lawyers terminate people’s cases in immigration court. Then ICE officers arrest them at or just outside the courthouse. As a result, immigrants who may be trying to gain legal status in the United States are instead targeted for rapid removal.
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1 month ago |
csmonitor.com | Sarah Matusek |Riley Robinson
For locals in southern New Mexico and western Texas, the entrance of a new neighbor – the U.S. military – is stirring up a mixture of hope, distrust, and uncertainty. While some embrace more ways to deter unauthorized migration, others raise questions around the logistics and legality of new military zones.
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1 month ago |
csmonitor.com | Henry Gass |Sarah Matusek
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments this week in a case that is both unusual and potentially seismic in its consequences. The 14th Amendment says that anyone born in the United States is automatically a citizen of this country – and has been settled law since the 19th century. President Donald Trump is seeking to put an asterisk on that amendment as part of his crackdown on immigration.
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