Her own accent is faintly Eastern European-so subtle it took me a few playbacks to notice. The ad was for BoldVoice, an AI-powered "accent training" app. A few clicks led me to its " Accent Oracle," which promised to guess my native language. After I read a lengthy phrase, the algorithm declared: "Your accent is Korean, my friend." Smug. But impressive. I am, in fact, Korean.
All national cuisines have history, but few wear their age as proudly as Italian food. The heritage, passed-down recipes, and restaurants run by multiple generations of the same family is a large part of what makes Italian cuisine so appealing: Eating food that's been made the same way for decades, if not centuries, feels like you're taking part in tradition.
The Department of Homeland Security took to X/Twitter on Monday (27 October) morning urging people to help "destroy the flood" with a post inspired by the video game franchise. The post features a screenshot from Halo: Combat Evolved showing the game's protagonist, Master Chief, driving a Warthog, with the text "Destroy the Flood" and a link to the Immigration & Customs Enforcement's sign-up page.
Kebatu's sexual assaults triggered anti-migrant protests outside an asylum hotel in Epping, Essex, and stoked wider anti-asylum sentiment across the country. Som tensions resurfaced when Kebatu was accidentally released last Friday when he was meant to be transferred to an immigration detention centre. He was re-captured by police on Sunday, but the 48-hour manhunt raised serious questions about the government's ability to cope with the number of asylum seekers in the UK and with the justice system.
Lead researcher Professor Katharina Spiess and her team questioned 30,000 people in Germany aged 20 to 52 for the study, focusing on both newcomers and those with deeper roots in the country. It asked each respondent to rate how "satisfied" they were with their life currently on a scale of 0 to 10. The aim, according to BiB, is to use well-being as a measure not only of personal happiness but also of social integration and economic prosperity.
A s I get older, my parents begin to show me glimpses of their secret dreams. "Dad wants to move back to Vietnam when we retire," Mum tells me. "We can live like kings and queens over there!" Dad hollers in the background. My mother hasn't returned since 1978. For one, she couldn't travel without a passport, and she didn't get her Canadian citizenship until after she turned fifty-five and was no longer required to take the citizenship test. Second, she's in no rush to go back to a land still soaked in blood and mired in misery.
He said the Trump campaign was smart in how it talked about the issue before the 2024 election by pointing out illegal immigrants from Venezuela killed 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley and 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray. That was the headline these were the victims of illegal immigration, Jones said. But the headlines have since shifted to protestors at ICE facilities, which Jones said is a better look and argument for Dems.
“Racist as you're full of hate, why don't you go straight to hell, goes the chorus. The song, La Cumbia de la Migra, belongs to Los Jornaleros del Norte, a group of migrant musicians who for 30 years have accompanied marches and strikes in Los Angeles with guitars, drums, and an unwavering conviction: to sing in order to survive. Omar Leon (Michoacan, 1976), the group's keyboardist, accordionist, and composer, doesn't consider himself a star.”
President Donald Trump's second term has especially targeted two groups in particular: immigrants and LGBTQ people. On his first day in office, he ended the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, which left thousands of refugees who had already been approved to live in the United States stranded. He also drastically lowered the cap on the number of refugees allowed to enter the U.S. from 125,000 to 7,500. Thankfully, Immigration Equality is here to help.
"All It Took for Trump to Dismantle the Justice Dept." Carol Leonnig has this guest essay online at The New York Times."Second Circuit finds Snapchat parodies of George Floyd murder fall outside school purview; The New York-based appeals court reversed the dismissal of a Sullivan County student's $1 million defamation suit against the high school that suspended him over social media posts that caused a stir locally in 2021"
CHICAGO (AP) The detention by immigration authorities of a Chicago man whose 16-year-old daughter is undergoing treatment for advanced cancer is illegal, and he must be given a bond hearing by Oct. 31, a federal judge has ruled. Attorneys for Ruben Torres Maldonado, 40, who was detained Oct. 18, have petitioned for his release as his deportation case goes through the system.
Soap Opera, an ambitious video work by the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, is on view for the first time at the project space of Reykjavík's gallery i8, i8 Grandi. The piece is a recording of Santa Barbara: A Living Sculpture, a durational performance which explored immigration, class, war and power through the medium of daytime television, and took place at Moscow's GES-2 House of Culture between December 2021 and February 2022.
Asked how concerned voters were about how immigration will impact workers in the UK in 2029, 40% of respondents said they were very concerned, 27% said they were somewhat concerned and 25% not very or at all concerned. But when asked to envision a work and teach visa where migrants coming to the UK are required to train British workers in their sector, the proportion of those who said they were very concerned dropped to 22%.
Two government ministries are being sued for alleged breach of a €4.4m contract for the refurbishment of a building in a west Dublin industrial estate for its use as an accommodation centre for international protection applicants.
Lozano, who lives in South L.A. and has manned a palatero cart in the Culver City area for more than 20 years, was one of thousands of undocumented immigrants detained this summer in L.A. as part of an ongoing mass deportation effort by the Trump administration. The ICE raids have rattled Southern California and fueled widespread protest against the federal government's immigration policies.
You've got Karoline Leavitt, who's sick. She's out of control. And I'm not sure whether she's just demented, ignorant, a stone-cold liar, or all of the above, Jeffries said. But the notion that an official White House spokesperson would say that the Democratic Party consists of terrorists, violent criminals, and undocumented immigrants it just makes no sense that this is what the American people are getting from the Trump administration in the middle of a shutdown.
An investigation launched after a deadly Florida crash involving a foreign truck driver who made an illegal U-turn on Aug. 12 found what Duffy called significant failures in the way California is enforcing rules that took effect in June after one of President Donald Trump's executive orders. California had issued the driver a commercial license, but these English rules predate the crash.
