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Report: Battling Discrimination Against Micronesians Requires Policy Changes Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Report: Battling Discrimination Against Micronesians Requires Policy Changes

The Hawaii Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission says these migrants should receive access to Medicaid and other benefits they are now denied.

The US Military Is Pouring Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Into Tiny Wake Island Cpl. A. J. Van Fredenberg, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit

The US Military Is Pouring Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Into Tiny Wake Island

The historic World War II site is on the front lines again as part of an expanded U.S. missile defense system.

Crackdown On Illegal Marshallese Adoptions Comes After More Than A Decade Of Inaction Jessica Terrell/Civil Beat/2018

Crackdown On Illegal Marshallese Adoptions Comes After More Than A Decade Of Inaction

After the charging of a prominent Arizona adoption attorney in three states for multiple offenses, authorities say more actions are coming.

Major Player In Black Market Marshallese Adoptions Faces Criminal Charges maricopa.gov

Major Player In Black Market Marshallese Adoptions Faces Criminal Charges

Paul Petersen, an Arizona attorney who was the focus of a ÌìÃÀÊÓƵ investigation, is the target of a multi-state investigation.

Feds Charge Arkansas Fixer With Luring Marshallese Women To US For Illegal Adoptions Sarah Holm/Civil Beat

Feds Charge Arkansas Fixer With Luring Marshallese Women To US For Illegal Adoptions

Maki Takehisa, identified as a fixer in a Civil Beat investigation last year, worked with an Arizona attorney to arrange black market adoptions.

Guam Military Funding Likely Diverted To Pay For Trump’s Border Wall Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2016

Guam Military Funding Likely Diverted To Pay For Trump’s Border Wall

The president plans to pay for his wall with Mexico in part by deferring eight projects already approved for Guam.

Trump Administration Backs Off From Restricting Driver’s Licenses For Micronesians Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Trump Administration Backs Off From Restricting Driver’s Licenses For Micronesians

Update: The Consul General of the Federated States of Micronesia in Honolulu said that policy had created “tremendous hardship” for Pacific Islanders in Hawaii.

Trisha Kehaulani Watson: Bikini Atoll Beer Is An Offensive Misappropriation Of Culture Screenshot: Manhattan Project Beer Co.

Trisha Kehaulani Watson: Bikini Atoll Beer Is An Offensive Misappropriation Of Culture

Sadly, Manhattan Project Beer Co. is only the latest in a string of companies that have wrongly taken cultural identity for their own profit.

The US Military Wants To Coordinate Health Care Solutions In Pacific Islands Anita Hofschneider/Civil Beat

The US Military Wants To Coordinate Health Care Solutions In Pacific Islands

The Indo-Pacific Command is partnering with the University of Hawaii to improve health care outcomes in the Pacific islands.

Texas Agency Ordered To Stop Marshall Islands Adoptions Jessica Terrell/Civil Beat

Texas Agency Ordered To Stop Marshall Islands Adoptions

Attorney Jody Hall, the subject of a Civil Beat investigation, told clients she would fly in birth mothers from the Marshall Islands in defiance of U.S. and Marshallese law.