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Trump at 'Alligator Alcatraz': What recent polls show about his immigration approval rating
Photos of Trump Touring an Immigration Detention Center Dubbed 'Alligator Alcatraz'
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As ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ opens, detention centers quietly expand across the US
President Donald Trump is touting Florida’s unusual immigration detention facility in the Everglades – part of a wider effort to create spaces to hold people caught up in the administration’s deportation campaign.
McCann or Aguirre? Voters head to the polls in South County special election for supervisor
SWAT-style immigration raids across the nation, including at a popular San Diego restaurant. A county budget with a multimillion-dollar projected deficit. And looming federal funding cuts. National and local issues drove scores of voters to cast their ballots in person Tuesday,
A look at how Trump’s big bill could change the US immigration system
President Donald Trump’s spending cuts and border security package would inject hundreds of billions of dollars into his mass deportation agenda.
Trump sues LA over immigration policies
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Trump administration sues LA, Mayor Bass and City Council over sanctuary city immigration policies
Justice Department sues Los Angeles to end 'sanctuary' immigration policies
It is the latest to challenge so-called “sanctuary” policies, in which state or local law enforcement do not collaborate with ICE, which the Trump administration contends are unlawful. The department has also sued New York state and filed criminal charges against a Wisconsin judge over immigration enforcement.
Catholic Bishops Try to Rally Opposition to Trump’s Immigration Agenda
President Trump campaigned on aggressive immigration tactics, and polls before his inauguration captured broad support among Americans for deportations. Since then, Americans have “mixed to negative views” of the administration’s immigration actions, according to an early June survey by the Pew Research Center.
Trump’s first immigration crackdown shrank California’s population. It could happen again
California could lose votes in the electoral college and suffer economic setbacks if President Trump’s immigration crackdown deters people from moving to the state.
Detroit mayoral candidates expect to tackle immigration through community, public safety
Mayoral candidates expect to provide protections, but laws prevent deep involvement. Fears of immigrant backlash have loomed across the nation and in Michigan for years. Yet, concerns cutting deeply into Detroit's immigrant communities have rarely grabbed the immediate attention of those in City Hall,
New election security grant program launched in Texas
The Texas Secretary of State’s Office has launched a new election security grant program to strengthen election integrity in all 254 counties in Texas. It is funded through the federal Help America Vote Act.