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Los Angeles Officials Urge ICE Agents to Stop Identifying Themselves as Police
Immigration officers have been identifying themselves as “police” when searching for people living in the country illegally, and top elected officials in Los Angeles are urging federal authorities to bring that practice to a stop. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, City Attorney Mike Feuer and City Council President Herb Wesson co-signed a letter to the…
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Trump’s Presidency: ‘We Are Not Experiencing the Best of Times’
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spoken out about Donald Trump before, and her distaste for him is no secret. In a recent interview with the BBC, the feisty justice intimated that she doesn’t think the country is in good hands, but she is hopeful for the future. While Ginsburg did not comment directly…
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Jeff Sessions Believes Private Prisons Help Meet the ‘Future Needs of the Federal Correctional System’
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is wasting no time making changes at the U.S. Department of Justice while simultaneously making sure there will be enough prisons to hold all the prisoners in the United States’ future. On Thursday he announced plans to rescind an Obama-era directive to scale back the use of private prisons. Politico reports…
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Why Is LAPD Going to Patrol City Buses and Trains When There Aren’t Enough Officers Patrolling the L.A. Streets?
Two days ago, the Los Angeles City Council’s Public Safety Committee pressed the Los Angeles Police Department for detailed explanations of how officers are deployed across city streets, amid concerns that there aren’t enough cops working patrol duty to adequately respond to calls for help. As if to mock that concern and add insult to…
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#Flint: City’s Plan for $100,000,000 in Federal Grant Money Submitted to EPA
A request submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality indicates that the city of Flint intends to use $100 million in federal funds to improve its water-treatment plant, replace underground pipes and make other system improvements. The request is part of the process for the city to…
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Judge Temporarily Blocks Texas From Removing Medicaid Funds From Planned Parenthood
A federal judge in Texas ruled Tuesday that state health officials cannot remove Planned Parenthood from Medicaid, ensuring that the women’s health provider will remain in the federal program at least until a federal lawsuit is settled. U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks issued the preliminary injunction that temporarily blocked the move and said the state…
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#NoDAPL: Police Arresting Water Protectors Who Remain at Camp After Deadline
Water protectors who fought against the construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline and remained at the Standing Rock encampment in North Dakota past the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Wednesday deadline for evacuation faced arrest Thursday as officers moved in to remove those who were still at the site. USA Today reports that…
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American Civil Liberties Union Responds to Trump’s New Mass-Deportation Instructions
On Tuesday the Trump administration revealed its new guidelines for the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants in the United States and at the border, allowing federal authorities to take a more aggressive stance on illegal immigration, prompting a swift response from the American Civil Liberties Union. Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants Rights Project,…
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DHS Secretary Signs Memos Empowering Authorities to More Aggressively Detain and Deport Immigrants
New guidelines that empower federal authorities to more aggressively detain and deport undocumented immigrants inside the United States and at the border were signed off on by Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly and released Tuesday. NPR reports that the new rules align with the executive orders President Donald Trump issued in late January, calling…
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Report: Flint, Mich., Water Crisis Connected to Systemic Racism
Finally, some truth out of Flint, Mich. The Michigan Civil Rights Commission released a report Friday that said, in part, “systematic racism” going back decades is at the core of the problems that caused a lead-contaminated water crisis in the majority-black city of Flint. While the 130-page report says that the commission did not unearth…
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