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Sidney's Picks: Trump Deports Immigrants to Guantanamo

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The Best of the Week’s News

  • Families of immigrants detained at Guantanamo dispute government’s claim that their loved ones are violent gang members. (ProPublica)
     

  • Immigration authorities raided the town of Cactus nearly twenty years ago, but the consequences still reverberate and other towns fear history will repeat itself. (TX Monthly, WaPo)
     

  • Meat industry asks Trump administration to deregulate factory farms and meat-packing plants. (Sentient)
     

  • Check out Wage Theft Monitor, a new publicly accessible database of wage theft in New York and beyond. (Documented) 
     

  • Woman jailed for drug use during pregnancy released following investigation by Mississippi Today. (MT)