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President-elect Donald Trump’s wide-ranging interview with “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker that aired Sunday touched on just about every major policy he has proposed for his second term, including imposing new tariffs, tackling inflation and mass deportations. “They deleted and destroyed all evidence of — that they found.”In the interview, Welker pointed out that Democrats deny this. According to Thompson, those agencies, and another House committee, continue to have access to the files and information the Republicans have argued was deleted, since the House committee didn’t archive them pending White House and DHS review. Tariffs, jobs and inflationTrump misconstrued the potential economic realities of tariffs, the taxes charged to importers on goods coming into the U.S. from abroad. In the interview, Trump said he’d be open to eliminating childhood vaccines “if they’re dangerous for the children.”“When you look at what’s going on with disease and sickness in our country, something’s wrong,” Trump said.

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☆ ‘Problemista’ actor Laith Nakli plays an immigration lawyer. In real life he’s fighting his own case
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

Khalil, played by Laith Nakli, perks up and races to scribble on his notepad. And as he helps promote the film, he’s speaking out about a side of himself that few people have seen. Laith Nakli, actorThe crime could have led to his deportation. … That pressure is just completely unfair.”Actor Laith Nakli plays an earnest immigration lawyer in "Problemista." The cloud Nakli feels every day wasn’t literally depicted on-screen, but Nakli says he saw it clearly hovering over Alejandro’s every move.

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☆ Opinion | This Immigration Bill Was Never Going to Fix the Border
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Sunday, lawmakers in Washington released the first major bipartisan bill to reform immigration policy in a decade. The nation already spends more money on border policing than at any other point in its history. In the last two decades, Customs and Border Protection’s budget has almost tripled and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s budget has doubled. Today, the Department of Homeland Security pays for over 19,000 Border Patrol agents, a similar number of ICE officers and expensive contracts with private companies that quickly sift through enormous amounts of data. The bill, which President Biden supports, would set aside nearly $4 billion for Customs and Border Protection, the Homeland Security division that includes Border Patrol, to prepare for a “migration surge” by hiring new staff members, reimbursing the Defense Department for its help and paying for Border Patrol agents’ overtime.

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☆ Fact Check-ICE phones given to migrants have no data or calling services
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Mobile phones provided to some migrants by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for surveillance purposes do not have access to unlimited internet data or calling services, the agency said. Another example is viewable (here)An ICE spokesperson said in a statement that the Alternative to Detention (ATD) program uses technology to ensure compliance to immigration orders for migrants who are released from custody. ICE’s website says these must be returned upon completion or reassignment from the ATD program (www.ice.gov/features/atd). Senior Attorney Laura Rivera from Just Futures Law, an immigration legal group, also said that the devices do not allow calls, texts, or internet access. As of April 22, 2023, 90% of the immigrants in the ATD program used SmartLINK, according to ICE’s latest statistics (here).

☆ Supreme Court Title 42 vote keeps border shut to asylum seekers, and Biden policy close to Trump
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Layla M. Razavi | Grisel Ruiz | Layla M. Razavi Is The Interim Executive Director Of Freedom For Immigrants | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

The policy, known as Title 42, had already been ruled unlawful by a federal judge. Though President Joe Biden is now pushing for an end to Title 42, he previously fought in federal court to preserve the policy despite his campaign promise to restore asylum. Title 42 was never about public health. Indeed, Title 42 came to be after the Trump White House reportedly put the squeeze on the CDC. It’s no coincidence that Title 42 has disproportionately denied Black and brown migrants their right to seek asylum.

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