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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.
This Texas Lawyer Flies Marshallese Women Through Hawaii For Black Market Adoptions Jessica Terrell/Civil Beat

This Texas Lawyer Flies Marshallese Women Through Hawaii For Black Market Adoptions

In texts and emails with adoptive parents, Dallas lawyer Jody Hall openly flouts laws restricting Marshallese adoptions in the U.S.
Chad Blair: Why Bikini Islanders Bought Land On The Big Island

Chad Blair: Why Bikini Islanders Bought Land On The Big Island

The Micronesians have been nomads since the U.S. tested nuclear weapons there in the 1940s and 1950s.
Confusion Reigns As Some Pacific Islanders Are Denied Licenses And IDs Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Confusion Reigns As Some Pacific Islanders Are Denied Licenses And IDs

There were more questions than answers in a packed meeting Friday as a federal official tried to clarify the effect of new Homeland Security rules.
New Federal Rules Block Driver’s Licenses For Micronesians In Hawaii Anita Hofschneider/Civil Beat

New Federal Rules Block Driver’s Licenses For Micronesians In Hawaii

State officials say new federal guidelines prohibit many Pacific Islanders from getting licenses and state IDs that comply with the REAL ID Act.