A Pennsylvania community is up in arms over reports that as many as 1,000 migrants were to be and reportedly still could be housed in a Civil War-era orphanage most recently used as a summer camp facility. The building, located in Scotland outside Gettysburg, is owned by a Lakewood, New Jersey-based LLC, but officials in...
Illegal immigrants in California may soon be given access to cell phone bill subsidies under a new proposal. The state’s Public Utilities Commission will vote on Sept. 26 whether California LifeLine, a subsidy program for low-income state residents, should extend eligibility to those without Social Security numbers. “If an undocumented Californian falls on hard times,...
A Boston-area school district has decided against adjusting its residency policy for matriculating students after migrant advocacy groups demanded change, with an administrator saying claims made by the critics “are just not true.” The Lawyers for Civil Rights and Massachusetts Advocates for Children sent a letter to school administrators in Saugus, a town 10 miles...
Pope Francis is urging countries not to turn their backs on migrants at risk of dying as they seek refuge abroad. The pontiff deviated from his catechesis series during his Wednesday General Audience in St. Peter’s Square this week, instead focusing on what he called the “grave sin” of intentionally allowing migrants to die in...
A key California Senate committee advanced a bill this week that would allow migrants and illegal immigrants to use a program aimed at helping widen the swath of the population who can become a homebuyer. The “Dream For All” shared-appreciation loan program is billed by the state as a down-payment assistance program for first-time homebuyers....
The mayor of Chicago is warning that thousands of migrants could arrive in the city ahead of the Democratic National Convention. While previous estimates of over 20,000 migrants arriving in the city seem to have been assuaged, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration still expects several hundred migrants ahead of the convention — arrivals via bus that...
