VICE News is the current affairs brand of VICE media, consisting primarily of documentaries. Created in December 2013. VICE News promotes itself on its coverage of events that may not be as well covered by other news sources.
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News StoryEvictions Have Led to 10,000 Additional COVID Deaths
Emma OckermanVICE News
November 30, 2020
With more state and federal eviction protections expiring soon, activists warn of more related COVID cases and deaths.
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America Could Have ‘Great Depression’ Levels of Homelessness by Year’s End
Emma OckermanVICE News
August 7, 2020
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The Eviction Crisis Is Already Here and It’s Crushing Black Moms
Emma OckermanVICE News
July 24, 2020
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Landlords Can’t Evict Their Tenants, So They’re Shutting Off Utilities and Threatening Them Instead
Emma OckermanVICE News
May 21, 2020
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Landlords Across the Country Can Start Evicting Tenants Again. Many Have Nowhere to Go.
Emma OckermanVICE News
June 1, 2020
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How to Take on America’s Screwed-Up Foster Care System and Win
Michael FitzgeraldVICE News
September 30, 2019
One thing was clear: Vanessa's future as a parent was at risk, and she needed a lawyer. The J.C. Penney clerk was living in a homeless shelter, and would probably need a social worker, too.
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The Trump administration asked 70 babies who can’t talk to make their case in immigration court
Taylor DolvenVICE News
July 19, 2018
New Justice Department data obtained by Kaiser Health News and the Texas Tribune show the number of babies under 1 summoned to immigration court recently increased almost 200 percent, from 24 in fiscal year 2017 to 70 so far in fiscal year 2018.
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Trump Has Quietly Cut Legal Aid for Migrant Kids Separated from Parents
Meredith HoffmanVICE News
May 31, 2018
A program that provides help to unaccompanied minors was slashed just as the government has instituted policies that split kids from parents.
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Facing High Legal Fees, Immigrants Are Using Web Tools to Apply for Green Cards
Madeleine WattenbargerVICE News
October 23, 2017
Tech services are promising to help undocumented people apply for legal status, but can they deliver?
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Hate Your Shady Landlord? Here’s Something to Celebrate
David DayenVICE News
August 23, 2017
Cities across America are taking steps to help low-income people get lawyers to fight eviction in court.
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Human Trafficking Victims are Scared to Apply For Visas Under Trump
Kari LindbergVICE News
June 12, 2017
Enrico Jose and 92,585 other survivors of human trafficking, domestic violence, and related crimes with pending applications face imminent deportation.
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A Lawyer Explains the Struggles Faced by Migrant Farm Workers
Sarah BellmanVICE News
November 11, 2016
To get a more in-depth look, we called Jenifer Rodriguez, Colorado Legal Services' Managing Attorney of the Migrant Farm Worker Division, who specializes in assisting these vulnerable workers.
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What Can You Do When the Cops Take Your Money and Won’t Give It Back?
Jake OffenhartzVICE News
September 29, 2016
Under New York City's opaque and arbitrary civil forfeiture system, seizing money from a woman not accused of a crime is a perfectly legal thing to do.
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Debtors Prison: Life Inside America’s For-Profit Justice System
VICE NewsAugust 16, 2016
Imprisoning people for being poor has technically been illegal in this country for two hundred years, but it is still a reality.
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How America’s Bond System Keeps Immigrants Behind Bars
Max Rivlin-NadlerVICE News
April 19, 2016
Immigrants, over 30,000 of whom are in custody right now, are regularly denied bail bonds or offered bond that's too expensive, forcing them to stay in jail while they wait for authorities to process their case.
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Teenage Immigrants Are Being Denied Asylum Because They Have No Right to an Attorney
Meredith HoffmanVICE News
April 12, 2016
Between 2014 and 2015, 49 percent of minors in immigration court had no legal aid, according to data compiled by the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
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A ‘Habitual Drunkard’ Law Is Keeping Homeless Alcoholics on the Streets in Virginia
Sydney LupkinVICE News
March 21, 2016
And a lawsuit is challenging the law.
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Fear of Deportation Is Driving Migrant Kids to Stay Home from School
Meredith HoffmanVICE News
February 25, 2016
As ICE boasts about its strict enforcement tactics, it declines to acknowledge the jarring impact these raids have on US soil: Many students have simply stopped going to school.
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No One Knows How Many Homeless People Live in New York
Brian JosephsVICE News
February 12, 2016
Kimberly Forte, supervising attorney at the Legal Aid Society in New York City, speaks about the challenges of counting the number of people experiencing homelessness.
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Landlords in Los Angeles Are Allegedly Making Buildings Uninhabitable to Push Out Poor People
Daniel RossVICE News
February 3, 2016
Tenants hoped that a lawsuit would make the Madison Hotel, which has some of the last affordable housing units in downtown LA, habitable again. But so far, it hasn't.
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How the System Is Failing Central American Families Facing Deportation
Max Rivlin-NadlerVICE News
January 15, 2016
Many of the families picked up still had legal recourse—specifically asylum—to avoid deportation.
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Why is the NYPD’s ‘Warrant Squad’ Still Raiding Homeless Shelters?
John SuricoVICE News
October 1, 2015
Conversations with men and women who sleep at various shelters across town suggest so-called warrant squads, a holdover from the days of Rudolph Giuliani—a mayor known for combating homelessness aggressively in the 90s—is still alive and well in 2015.
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Prisons Treat Transgender Inmates Like Shit — This Lawsuit Could Change That
Avi Asher-SchapiroVICE News
September 25, 2015
A judge in Maryland has forced prison officials to overhaul their treatment of transgendered inmates, after a transgender prisoner reported repeated sexual abuse at the hands of correctional officers in a maximum-security prison.
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