Ryan Farrick is a writer and small business advertising consultant based out of mid-Michigan. Passionate about international politics and world affairs, he’s an avid traveler with a keen interest in the connections between South Asia and the United States. Ryan studied neuroscience and has spent the last several years working as an operations manager in transportation logistics.
The Trump administration is laying down new mandates that’d see more immigrants prosecuted for illegal entry to the United States – a move advocates fear will lead to the separation of families. Under the new policy, the Department of Homeland Security will refer ‘100 percent of illegal southwest border crossings’ to the Justice Department. U.S.
On Friday, the Trump administration ended a special immigration program for some 57,000 Hondurans. The decision, said Michael Martin of National Public Radio, is only the latest in a series of similar actions. ‘Temporary Protected Status’ – an immigration category protecting refugees of natural disaster and manmade catastrophe – was revoked for Nicaraguan and Salvadoran
The father of a student who was killed in February during the Parkland, FL, high school shooting is filing a wrongful death lawsuit against a former sheriff’s deputy he accuses of cowardice. The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Andrew Pollack filed the suit in Broward County court on behalf of his deceased daughter,
Since 2006, five motorcyclists have been killed by unexpected blowouts on Harley-Davidson D402 tires. According to the Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal, another 22 bikers were injured by the same Dunlop brand of tubes, manufactured and sold by Goodyear. “All of a sudden, the tire just let go – there was no warning, no nothing,”
On Tuesday, Texas and six other states filed a federal lawsuit challenging the legality of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Known colloquially by its acronym, DACA, the program granted temporary, renewable work permits to some 694,000 undocumented immigrants who arrived to the United States as children. President Donald Trump officially terminated scheme in
A strange Alabama law allowing sheriffs to pocket savings on inmate meals is bringing allegations of corruption to offices and counties across the state. For decades, writes the New York Times, sheriffs prospered by manipulating a Depression-era system imposed to save the state money. By feeding inmates for pennies per meal, officers can keep the
A class-action suit is bringing change to a Philadelphia corrections facility which once barred incarcerated fathers from spending time alone with their minor children. “When you’re far away from someone and can’t visit, it puts a strain on everything,” said Dayna Walter, partner of a jailed man and mother of his two-year old child. “You
Martin Tankleff served 17 years in prison, convicted of murdering his own parents. Last Thursday, the middle-age man who spent half his life behind bars settled with Suffolk County, N.Y., for $10 million. Following a chamber vote, the Ways and Means Committee of the local legislature approved the full amount for disbursement. Tankleff reached another,
Illinois bus company Suburban Express is facing a civil rights lawsuit after making a politically incorrect marketing pitch. State Attorney General Lisa Madigan launched the litigation, promising to put Suburban Express out of business for insulting Chinese students attending the University of Illinois. The Chicago Sun Times reports that the company touched off a ‘political
USA Gymnastics reached a confidential settlement with a Georgia athlete who claims the organization didn’t take enough steps to stop child abuse. The suit, filed in 2013, alleges that USA Gymnastics received at least four separate warnings about coach William McCabe. The plaintiff claims McCabe filmed her in various states of undress. According to a