US Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Friday threatened state election officials with prison time if they do not comply with the Trump administration’s “mandatory” changes to how they run their elections. During a press conference, Mullin said that the Trump administration was making so-called “security enhancements” to US elections “mandatory,” adding that any uncooperative…
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An ICE agent reportedly shot and killed a person in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday, marking the second person killed at the hands of federal immigration agents in a week. The office of the Maine Attorney General said that agents were “conducting an enforcement operation related to a final order of removal” when an agent fatally shot a man on Monday morning. The attorney general and Sen.
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The Trump administration divulged sensitive information about Iranian asylum seekers to the Iranian government as it sought to deport them, putting their lives in danger, a lawsuit filed on Tuesday alleges. The lawsuit, filed by the Iranian American Legal Defense Fund and Public Citizen Litigation Group, says that Trump administration officials held secretive meetings in which they shared…
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On Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin testified before a Senate appropriations subcommittee in defense of the agency’s $63 billion budget request. Democratic senators grilled Mullin about the budget, as well as Mullin’s threats to shut down screenings of international flights in sanctuary cities. They also questioned whether he has implemented DHS…
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On Sunday night, New Jersey police arrested dozens of protesters for defying a curfew outside of Delaney Hall, the immigration jail in Newark, New Jersey, where hundreds of detainees are on day 11 of a hunger strike. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka instituted the curfew on Saturday night, after both state and local police charged at the protesters. The day before, Democratic Gov.
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin claimed that the Trump administration is in the process of drawing up plans to stop processing international flights in sanctuary cities in retaliation for the protests at Delaney Hall, an immigrant jail in Newark, New Jersey. In an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, Mullin complained that local police had not assisted ICE in…
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