ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On Monday, the Department of Defense announced that it had awarded a massive new contract to build the nation’s largest migrant detention camp on the Fort Bliss military base, a facility that will play a key role in …
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California and a coalition of other liberal-led states sued the Trump administration Monday over new rules barring undocumented immigrants from accessing more than a dozen federally funded “public benefit” programs, arguing the restrictions target working mothers and their children in violation of federal law. President Trump and others in his administration have defended the restrictions as necessary to protect services …
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President Donald Trump once promised to focus on the “worst of the worst” as he sought to ramp up immigrant deportations, but a recent interview from his acting ICE chief underscored just how far the administration has departed from that vow. ICE is doubling down on arresting undocumented immigrants without criminal histories, Todd Lyons, the acting head of the federal …
Read More »Justice Dept. Asks California Sheriffs for Names of Undocumented Inmates The New York Times LA County cannot hand over immigrant inmates’ data despite DOJ threat, Luna says NBC Los Angeles Justice Department requests lists of all noncitizen inmates being held in California jails Los Angeles Times Trump’s DOJ requests California sheriffs’ data on criminal illegal immigrants in custody Fox News DOJ pushes for all …
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