Immigrant communities brace for weekend raids
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Assistant Field Office Director Jorge Field, 53, arrests an Iranian immigrant in San Clemente, California, in May 2017. Some news reports suggest there may be weekend raids in 10 cities in the US.
The heightened tensions in the Persian Gulf after a standoff between Iranian gunboats and a British warship escorting an oil tanker are reminiscent of the so-called “Tanker Wars” of the 1980s, but the geopolitics of the current situation are different than 30 years ago. Also, President Donald Trump dropped his case to add a citizenship question to the US Census, but said the government would obtain data in other ways. And, in Istanbul, Turkey, a Syrian family’s business is helping them ease the transition from refugee to resident while giving other Syrians the taste of familiar home cooking.
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