Ryan Farrick is a freelance 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.
A massive migrant caravan headed for the United States ran into trouble Friday, with participants forced to square off against security forces. Between 1,500 and 4,500 migrants attempted to enter Mexico from Guatemala. With a river separating the two countries, some members opted to jump off a border bridge to try swimming across. Law enforcement
A San Quentin psychiatrist has been awarded $800,00 after he accused corrections staff of illegal retaliation. Christopher Wadsworth, who the Sacramento Bee reports served as the prison’s chief psychiatrist, received the settlement last year. Wadsworth accused the state of endangering prisoners’ lives by adopting an unsafe mental health policy. That protocol, says Wadsworth’s suit, tied
Two more victims of last year’s deadly train derailment in DuPont, Washington have filed lawsuits against Amtrak. The suits say the railway company violated the state’s Consumer Protection Act, leading to a derailment which killed three passengers and injured dozens more. According to Seattle Pi, the suits were filed by Phillip Riedel, widower of passenger
A 4,000-person caravan of migrants has arrived in Guatemala City, sparking concern from the White House and mass media attention. The New York Times reports that the group has traveled for days. Many have walked, hitchhiked and taken public buses to leave the Central American nation of Honduras. Now, in Guatemala and on Mexico’s doorstep,
A California prison psychologist who claims she was locked up in a cell with a convicted rapist as punishment for defending transgender inmates has accepted a $275,000 settlement. Lois Jespersen, who the Sacramento Bee says worked for the California Department of Corrections since 2008, left her post as part of the agreement. The settlement forbids
On Thursday, President Donald Trump threatened to bring the military to the U.S.-Mexico border if immigration can’t be curbed. “I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught – and if unable to do so I will call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!” Trump tweeted in the
Two companies involved in the summer’s Branson, MO duck boat tragedy are invoking a 19th-century law in an attempt to avoid legal damages. The July incident claimed 17 lives—nine of the dead were from a single family. The 1851 maritime law brought about by defendants Branson Duck Vehicles and Ripley Entertainment limits or eliminates liability
A federal judge said the ‘Climate Kids’ can continue their lawsuit against the federal government but cannot name President Donald Trump as a defendant. The Monday decision by U.S. District Ann Aiken in Eugene, Oregon came less than two weeks before the climate change lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial. Reuters reports that the
A lawsuit accusing Harvard University of discriminating against Asian-American applicants in admissions moved to trial on Monday. Students for Fair Admissions have alleged that Harvard is biased against its Asian-American applicants, supposedly holding them to higher standards than students of other races. Harvard, reports the Associated Press, has denied the accusations. The Ivy League institution
The Trump administration took months to extricate itself from a family separation crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border. Now, with families once again flocking to the United States’ southern frontier, President Trump is reconsidering the policy. POLITICO.com reports that ‘three current and former Homeland Security Department’ officials confirmed the rumor. They say that if children