Immigrant Children Held Illegally in US Hotels On July 22, the Associated Press (AP) reported that the Trump Administration is detaining immigrant children in three Hampton Inn & Suite Hotels, particularly in El Paso and McAllen, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona. When Roberto Lopez of the Texas Civil Rights Project visited

THE BIG PICTURE: As COVID-19 escalates, prisons across the United States are resorting to solitary confinement as a means of containing the virus. Within weeks, the number of isolated inmates surged from 60,000 inmates to a staggering 300,000, suggesting that solitary confinement is headed toward a path of

China took over the Xinjiang region (formerly known as East Turkestan) in 1949 (BBC, 2014). After the takeover, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to promote the enrollment of students in public schools, while seemingly also embracing the use of regional languages other than Mandarin. Due to this initial embrace

Written by Snigdha Jagarlapudi and Annie McDonnell While studying at Al-Azhar Islamic University in Egypt, Muyesser Muhemmed met her future husband, Sedirjan. They married in 2006 and moved to Kazakhstan in 2007. In 2016, Muyesser returned to her home city in Xinjiang, Atush of the prefecture Kizilsu. Initially, her trip