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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Gardaworld - Caught on Camera

Daring, audacious – but who did it? LA $30m cash heist has it all except clues

The robbery from a GardaWorld warehouse on Easter Sunday was like something from a movie – and police appear to be puzzled by how it went down

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“Can Imagine The Film Already”: $30M Easter Heist Leave LAPD And Feds Baffled

The employees of the facility only noticed the break-in when they opened the vault the following day. The post “Can Imagine The Film Already”: $30M Easter Heist Leave LAPD And Feds Baffled first appeared on Bored Panda.

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This LA heist sounds like a thriller novel. Thieves stole $30 million in cash

Thieves got away with $30 million in cash from a money storage facility in Los Angeles by breaking into the building on Easter and cracking the safe. Now detectives are seeking to unravel the heist.

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Million Cash Heist Rocks Los Angeles Money Facility

Authorities in Los Angeles investigate a daring million cash heist from a money storage facility, prompting a joint LAPD-FBI probe.

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Shelved Brighton Park migrant camp cost city nearly $1 million

State environmental regulators determined there were too many harmful metals and other toxic substances detected on the property for it to safely house asylum-seekers.

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Picture Chicago: This week’s 17 can’t miss Sun-Times photos

Public officials celebrated at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new American Blues Theater on the Northwest Side, activists held a vigil for people who have died while detained at Cook County Jail, and construction workers began framing a “winterized base camp” for asylum-seekers in Chicago.

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Comienzan la construcción de campamento para migrantes

El portavoz del alcalde dijo que la mitigación de los contaminantes en el terreno se completaría para el fin de la semana.

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Brighton Park migrant tents begin rising

The tents are expected to be completed in a matter of days and will house 500 migrants at first.

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Construction of winter tents for migrants in Brighton Park to start Monday

A contractor is expected to begin the final phase of construction over the objections of Ald. Julia Ramirez (12th) at a site where heavy metal contamination was found.

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Brandon Johnson’s budgeted amount for migrant crisis, $150 million, will only last six months, his floor leader says

If Springfield doesn’t step up and cover half of Chicago’s costs and “operate its own shelters,” Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa warned that a supplemental appropriation may be required in mid-year.

Chicago Sun-Times

Clarity begins at home: No need for Mayor Johnson to travel to the border to understand migrant crisis

There’s plenty for the mayor to do right here in Chicago to solve what is fast becoming the defining issue of his administration.

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Chicago’s plan to hire controversial firm to house migrants alarms critics

GardaWorld has been investigated for safety violations and was also hired by Florida to assist in that state’s migrant removal program

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Picture Chicago: This week’s 14 can’t miss Sun-Times photos

Former workers at the now-closed Signature Room sued for back pay and benefits, mayor Brandon Johnson helped cut the ceremonial ribbon at Bally’s Casino Chicago, and citizens protested a city contract with GardaWorld to build giant tent cities for migrants.

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Pritzker says Chicago could house asylum-seekers in unused buildings, not winter tent basecamps

After Mayor Brandon Johnson announced last week the city inked a one-year, $29.4 million contract with GardaWorld Federal Services to set up a camp, Pritzker’s office said it addressed concerns around “cultural competency.”

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Newest migrant arrivals, others excluded from speed up of work authorization

The Biden administration’s announcement last week included only Venezuelans arriving before August. Thousands more from Venezuela have since arrived, and many others are from different countries in Central and South America.

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Migrant tent city company accused of controversial ties

A $29.3 million agreement with the city for GardaWorld to build giant tent cities for migrants has been condemned by officials and advocates who said investing in Chicago infrastructure and organizations would be better.

The Independent UK

Chicago officials ink nearly $30M contract with security firm to move migrants to winterized camps

Chicago officials have signed a nearly $30 million contract with a private security firm to relocate migrants seeking asylum from police stations and the city’s two airports to winterized camps with massive tents before cold weather arrives

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City signs $29.3 million contract to build ‘winterized base camps’ for migrants

The contract doesn’t mention specific sites for the giant camps, and none have been chosen, according to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s press secretary Ronnie Reese.

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The Guardian - UK

British Council workers in Afghanistan step closer to UK relocation

Minister speaks of ‘progress’ on security checks, but Foreign Office clarifies no green light yet for contractors

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Revealed: UK has failed to resettle Afghans facing torture and death despite promise

Those who risked their lives helping British government face a ‘toxic combination of incompetence and indifference’

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Afghan embassy staff remain in hiding despite being eligible for UK relocation

UK government accused of leaving former employees and their families ‘in limbo’ in Afghanistan, where they are targets for the Taliban

The Independent UK

Former UK embassy workers in Afghanistan ‘beaten and tortured by Taliban’

‘I feel like the British have been disloyal’

The Guardian - UK

Welcome to Britain … now what? Afghan families on their lives in limbo

As war in Ukraine creates millions of new refugees, many people airlifted to safety from Kabul last summer are still stuck in UK hotels. We spent six months following three families as they adjust to life in their new home

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