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Trump’s $4.8 trillion budget proposal revisits rejected cuts

By ANDREW TAYLOR | February 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump unveiled a $4.8 trillion election year budget plan on Monday that recycles deep, previously rejected cuts to domestic programs like food stamps, Medicaid, and housing as the recipe for wrestling the federal budget...

Voter registration error risks deportation for immigrants

By SOPHIA TAREEN | February 10, 2020

CHICAGO (AP) — The day Margarita Del Pilar Fitzpatrick applied for an Illinois driver's license upended her life. When a clerk offered to register her to vote in 2005, the Peruvian citizen mistakenly accepted, leading to long legal battles and eventually...

ICE sued over treatment of 5-year-old with head injury

By NOMAAN MERCHANT | February 8, 2020

HOUSTON (AP) — The mother of a 5-year-old Guatemalan boy sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the medical care he has received in detention for a head injury suffered before the family was arrested.The lawsuit filed late Friday in California...

Judge strikes blow to US immigration enforcement tactics

By ELLIOT SPAGAT | February 7, 2020

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge has prohibited U.S. immigration authorities from relying on databases deemed faulty to ask law enforcement agencies to hold people in custody, a setback for the Trump administration that threatens to hamper how it carries...

Guatemalan family seeking asylum reunited after suing feds

By PHILIP MARCELO | February 7, 2020

BOSTON (AP) — A Guatemalan family seeking asylum has been reunited in Massachusetts after challenging their separation under the Trump administration's controversial “Remain in Mexico” asylum process.The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts...

Secret Service may leave Homeland Security, rejoin Treasury

By COLLEEN LONG | February 7, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is throwing its support behind a plan to transfer the U.S. Secret Service back to the Treasury Department to better focus on the growing threat of online financial crimes.Shifting the agency from within the Department...

NY to sue US over its ouster from trusted traveler programs

By MARINA VILLENEUVE | February 7, 2020

ALABNY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state will file a lawsuit challenging the Department of Homeland Security's decision to block New Yorkers from participating in “trusted traveler programs” in retribution for a new state law that could hinder federal...

Walmart shooting suspect charged with federal hate crimes

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and CEDAR ATTANASIO | February 6, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The man accused of killing 22 people and wounding two dozen more in a shooting that targeted Mexicans in the border city of El Paso, Texas, has been charged with federal hate crimes.Patrick Crusius, 21, has been charged with 90 counts...

Authorities: Man shot in face during immigration operation

By JIM MUSTIAN | February 6, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal authorities are investigating the shooting of a man in Brooklyn that involved a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, a case that is inflaming passions around New York City's sanctuary policies.The shooting happened...

DHS cuts New Yorkers off from ‘trusted traveler’ programs

By BEN FOX | February 6, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — New York residents will be cut off from “trusted traveler” programs that speed their re-entry into the country, a senior Homeland Security official said Thursday, blaming a new state law that prohibits immigration agents from accessing...

Advocates allege ICE neglecting 5-year-old with head injury

By NOMAAN MERCHANT | February 5, 2020

HOUSTON (AP) — A 5-year-old boy from Guatemala who fractured his skull in an accident and suffered bleeding around his brain is not being properly treated at an immigration detention center in Texas for what could be a traumatic brain injury, family...

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press | February 5, 2020

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:———Feb. 5The Miami Herald on Fred Guttenberg, father of a student killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, being removed from President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address:House...