For 20 years, Isata Jalloh, has worked as a wheelchair attendant at Dulles, making as little as $7.25 an hour, plus tips. Support is pouring in for the low-wage Dulles International Airport worker who was fired after 20 years on the job — she is accused of asking for a tip. But she adamantly denies […] …
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Anti-immigrant rhetoric: is it an echo of the 1930s?
Anti-cancer drugs researcher made jobless, homeless by tax mistake
A pharmaceutical specialist, Nisha Mohite, who developed anti-cancer drugs, has lost her job, home, and savings because of a tax error allegedly made by her former accountant. Nisha, who migrated to the United Kingdom in 2008 from Mumbai, India, applied for indefinite leave to remain in the UK but she was rejected under the ‘bad character’ […] …
US Supreme Court snubs Trump over Dreamer immigrants
President Donald Trump’s effort to end a scheme shielding young immigrants from deportation faced an uncertain future Monday, after the US Supreme Court declined to hear the case. Trump’s move to end protections for hundreds of thousands of people brought illegally to the United States as children has been blocked by the lower courts. The […] …