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Christopher Harress
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Award-winning journalist in the American South.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottish-born
🇬🇧Royal Navy
🇺🇸Columbia University 12’

Past: Newsweek/NYTimes/AL.com/Reckon.
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42 million SNAP recipients without funds for food. Food banks are overwhelmed. Mississippi, the poorest and hungriest state, leads the crisis.

The consequences will never be fully known after Trump ended the federal food insecurity tracker.

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End of federal hunger tracker shrouds Mississippi food crisis as food banks and families grapple with SNAP freeze
Adverse Supreme Court ruling and administration’s rollback of food programs escalate problems for lower income residents
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November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Mississippi and Louisiana form America’s “detention alley,” home to the harshest immigration system in the country.

Here, race and geography shape who gets a second chance and who gets sent away. @msindy.bsky.social

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Mississippi’s ICE experience illustrates how race and geography determine who gets deported
In ‘detention alley,’ immigrants of color face the most ICE raids and the harshest courtroom outcomes
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November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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As the shutdown drags into week 3, Mississippi faces one of the worst health crises in the nation. ACA and Medicaid cuts will push up premiums by 314% in the nation’s poorest state, leaving 23 rural hospitals on the brink of survival. @msindy.bsky.social
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As government shutdown drags on, Mississippi healthcare crisis deepens
As the federal government enters its third week of shutdown, few states have more at stake than Mississippi.
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October 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Mississippi gave secret incentives to energy-hungry data centers, some of which will use as much power as medium-sized cities. Officials promise rates won’t rise. Their filings say otherwise. @msindy.bsky.social
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Mississippi’s data center boom brings significant investments, but also potential hidden perils
State leaders tout billion-dollar deals, but secrecy, energy demands and mounting costs raise specter of ordinary people footing the bill
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October 17, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Exclusive: Kasper Eriksen is free from ICE custody.

He received a deportation order under Trump in 2019, then was detained under Trump’s immigration crackdown in Apr. 2025. While locked up, the MAGA-supporting Mississippi father of five blamed Biden. @msindy.bsky.social
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Danish Mississippi man freed from ICE custody
Release is good news for Kasper Eriksen and his family, yet highlights the plight of other immigrants who remain incarcerated and face deportation
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August 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Exclusive: Kasper Eriksen is free from ICE custody.

He received a deportation order under Trump in 2019, then was detained under Trump’s immigration crackdown in Apr. 2025. While locked up, the MAGA-supporting Mississippi father of five blamed Biden. @msindy.bsky.social
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Danish Mississippi man freed from ICE custody
Release is good news for Kasper Eriksen and his family, yet highlights the plight of other immigrants who remain incarcerated and face deportation
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August 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Mississippi, America’s poorest state, faces deeper poverty as Trump’s budget slashes Medicaid & SNAP. Rep. Bennie Thompson warns: “In one county, there isn’t even a doctor.”

Things are set to get much worse. @msindy.bsky.social

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U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson: Life will get significantly harder for lower income Mississippians due to federal budget cuts
In the nation's poorest state, cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and other programs will exacerbate existing problems of low wages, inflation, and food and healthcare deserts
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August 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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NEW FROM The Mississippi Independent:

Kasper Eriksen's case is under review by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen. Eriksen was detained by ICE on April 15, 2025, during his final U.S. citizenship naturalization interview in Memphis. @msindy.bsky.social
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Mississippi man’s ICE detention draws attention of Danish foreign ministry
Kasper Eriksen, who immigrated from Denmark more than a decade ago, is in many ways an unexpected consequence of Trump administration’s mass deportations
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May 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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A Mississippi father of four from Denmark remains in immigration custody after being arrested at his final citizenship interview by ICE agents in mid-April. @msindy.bsky.social @alanhuffman.bsky.social
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Danish legal immigrant in Mississippi for more than a decade detained in ICE facility
Family and friends marshal support after man’s arrest while pursuing U.S. citizenship
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May 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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@msindy.bsky.social for staying on this story: Elderly Navy veteran says ex-cop knocked her out during Gulf Coast political dispute msindy.org/p/elderly-na...
Elderly Navy veteran says ex-cop knocked her out during Gulf Coast political dispute
A 74-year-old Mississippi woman who was allegedly assaulted by a retired Long Beach police officer during a roadside protest claimed during an emotional phone call with The Mississippi Independent tha...
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May 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM