Author: Amy Taxin
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US lifts hold on immigration applications for doctors, but leaves others waiting
Libyan Dr. Faysal Alghoula must renew his green card to continue caring for roughly 1,000 patients in southwestern Indiana, but hasn’t been able to since the Trump administration stopped reviewing applications for people from several dozen countries it deemed high-risk. Alghoula’s current visa will expire in September if his application is denied. But last week,…
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States in Colorado River basin pitch new ways to absorb shortages but clash on the approach
U.S. states that draw water from the Colorado River basin are suggesting new ways to determine how to absorb shortages in supply
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Disneyland’s Mickey Mouse and Cinderella performers may unionize
A group of Disneyland performers in California are considering joining a union
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Strained US hospitals seek foreign nurses amid visa windfall
NEW YORK • With American hospitals facing a dire shortage of nurses amid a slogging pandemic, many are looking abroad for health care workers. And it could be just in time. There’s an unusually high number of green cards available this year for foreign professionals, including nurses, who want to move to the United States…
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Los Angeles to require vaccine for all students 12 and up
LOS ANGELES • The Los Angeles board of education voted Thursday to require students 12 and older to be vaccinated against the coronavirus to attend in-person classes in the nation’s second-largest school district. The move makes Los Angeles by far the largest of a very small number of districts with a vaccine requirement. Nearby Culver…
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Trump moves to end limits on detention of migrant children
WASHINGTON • The Trump administration is moving to end an agreement limiting how long migrant children can be kept in detention, the president’s latest effort to curb immigration at the Mexican border. A court fight is almost certain to follow, challenging the attempt to hold migrant families until asylum cases are decided. A current settlement…
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Police: Gang member kills 4 in random California stabbings
GARDEN GROVE, Calif.• The man who killed four people and wounded two in random stabbings across two Southern California cities is a gang member with a violent criminal record who had served time in prison, authorities said Thursday. Zachary Castaneda “could have injured or killed many other people” had he not been arrested Wednesday while…
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More immigrants sue US over end to protected status
WASHINGTON • Immigrants from Honduras and Nepal have filed a lawsuit alleging the Trump administration unfairly ended a program that lets them live and work in the United States. The lawsuit filed late Sunday in federal court in San Francisco alleges that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s decision to end so-called temporary protected status…
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Trump, U.S. end immigration for thousands of Hondurans
NEW YORK — The Trump administration said Friday that it is ending special immigration protections for about 57,000 Hondurans, adding them to hundreds of thousands of immigrants from other countries battered by violence and natural disasters who are losing permission to be in the United States. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s widely anticipated decision…
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Abuse in house of torture was ‘severe, pervasive, prolonged’
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A California couple tortured a dozen of their children for years, starving them to the point that their growth was stunted, chaining them to their beds for up to months, preventing them from using the toilet at times and forbidding them from showering more than once a year, a prosecutor said Thursday.…