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Ohio

‘Not a safe place.’ Aid worker describes conditions in Haiti as Ohioans are forced to return

  • Marty Schladen

A Florida congressman said last month that forcing tens of thousands of Haitians to return to the violence-ravaged country will actually help it.  But a humanitarian worker on the ground in the nation’s capital said it will only make a dire situation much worse — in multiple, mutually reinforcing ways. And that’s aside from what […]

Colorado

​He fled gang violence. Now this ICE detainee in Aurora tries to avoid deportation.

  • Lindsey Toomer

Rudy Villeda Mejía has his own roofing business, a wife and three stepchildren in Washington, near the state’s border with Canada.  He has never been charged with a crime. He entered the U.S. without authorization for a second time in 2010 after he was kidnapped by a violent cartel in Mexico, and has been in […]