Olusegun Olatunji paid a $40,700 fine, did three months in a halfway house and spent a year on probation for selling counterfeit hats out of an Indianapolis shopping mall. Then, since the Nigerian native had overstayed a work visa 30 years ago, immigration officials detained him to await deportation in 2014. More than three years later, he's still waiting. He's moved among six immigration detention centers, including his ongoing second stay at a county jail in northeastern Alabama that critics call a black hole for complicated deportation cases. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained more than 100,000 immigrants during the 2017 fiscal year, holding them an average of 34 days before releasing or deporting them, federal records show. Average length of detention was 22 days in fiscal year 2016. But some are held for months or years because of pending appeals or delayed deportations -- time that could increase after President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown and a … [Read more...] about Alabama’s immigration detainees face ‘black hole’ of endless waiting
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Immigration detention prolonged in Alabama’s ‘black hole’
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Olusegun Olatunji paid a $40,700 fine, did three months in a halfway house and spent a year on probation for selling counterfeit hats out of an Indianapolis shopping mall. Then, since the Nigerian native had overstayed a work visa 30 years ago, immigration officials detained him to await deportation in 2014.More than three years later, he’s still waiting. He’s moved among six immigration detention centers, including his ongoing second stay at a county jail in northeastern Alabama that critics call a black hole for complicated deportation cases.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained more than 100,000 immigrants during the 2017 fiscal year, holding them an average of 34 days before releasing or deporting them, federal records show. Average length of detention was 22 days in fiscal year 2016.But some are held for months or years because of pending appeals or delayed deportations — time that could increase after President … [Read more...] about Immigration detention prolonged in Alabama’s ‘black hole’
‘Kevin Can Wait’ season 2 review: Donna’s unexplained death left a black hole that hurt the show
THE SHOW "Kevin Can Wait" WHEN | WHERE Season 2 finale Monday at 8 p.m. on CBS/2 WHAT IT'S ABOUT In the season finale, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock and Billy Joel-band member Mike DelGuidice guest star as reuniting members of Smokefish, the old rock band of Kevin Gable (Kevin James). In the episode (“A Band Done”), Kevin entertains his latest delusion: success as an aging rocker. (A screener was not made available for review.) MY SAY Since the beginning of the season, a writer for Esquire.com, Matt Miller, has been on a lonely, quixotic quest — to find out what happened to “Kevin's” Donna Gable (Erinn Hayes). As viewers know, Kevin's spouse was killed off before the season opener. Miller wanted to know why. He created a hashtag (#JusticeforDonna), then closely watched each episode for clues to her fate. After a few weeks, he grimly concluded that foul play was involved. “What's seemingly a harmless sitcom about a family in Long Island,” … [Read more...] about ‘Kevin Can Wait’ season 2 review: Donna’s unexplained death left a black hole that hurt the show
Black Holes Head for Collision As Two Galaxies Merge in Stunning Butterfly Formation
Tech & Science Black Hole supermassive black hole galaxies Researchers have “dissected” the mysterious gases oozing from two supermassive black holes on the verge of collision in galaxy NGC 6240 for the first time. The huge gas emissions—which flow out like the wings of a butterfly around the black holes—might be switching off star formation in the galaxy. Powerful wind from the two black holes, researchers reported Wednesday in the journal Nature, wrestles with the wind of fresh stars to create the galaxy’s distinctive gas clouds. “We dissected the butterfly,” said study author Francisco Müller-Sánchez of the University of Colorado Boulder in a statement. “This is the first galaxy in which we can see both the wind from the two supermassive black holes and the outflow of low ionization gas from star formation at the same time." Galaxy NGC 6240 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. A Evans … [Read more...] about Black Holes Head for Collision As Two Galaxies Merge in Stunning Butterfly Formation
Once a getaway where Playboy bunnies flolicked, now a ‘black hole’
Dave Sanders / The New York Times The Playboy Club in Vernon Township, N.J., April 5, 2018. A state judge ordered that the residents have to leave, citing a local ordinance that forbids extended stays in the building. By Rick Rojas, New York Times News Service Sunday, April 15, 2018 | 2 a.m. VERNON, N.J. — The club evoked an air of exclusivity by design. A thicket of trees shielded the Playboy Club from public view, and it was set at the end of a long driveway, reachable only by winding country roads. Members had to show a card — a key, they called it — to get inside, where, in its prime, stars like Frank Sinatra and Ann-Margret performed and women in bikinis and bunny ears served drinks by the pool. Decades later, though, any sign of that glitz is long gone. Much of the building, which housed the club and a hotel, has been sealed off for years, left to gradually be swallowed by encroaching woods. Roaches dart into crevices and bats and other vermin have … [Read more...] about Once a getaway where Playboy bunnies flolicked, now a ‘black hole’