Treasury and the IRS want to treat Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit refunds as a 'federal public benefit' under the 1996 welfare law, cutting off working families with DACA, TPS and other lawful statuses. A leading budget think tank counts roughly 1 million people hurt, including hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizen kids.
A new Homeland Security rule lets officers treat a family's enrollment in Medicaid, CHIP or SNAP as grounds to deny lawful permanent residency. The department's own analysis says federal and state spending could fall by $13.05 billion a year — from households that include U.S. citizens.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says ICE officers may enter polling sites during the midterms. Latino civil rights groups, Common Cause and the city of Denver sued on September 10, pointing to a Civil War era law that bars armed federal agents from polling places unless they are repelling armed enemies of the United States.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin launched the tip line on September 9. At the March hearing Josh Brecheen chaired, the federal count came to 17 fatal crashes against roughly 4,000 a year, and 200,000 drivers had already begun losing their licenses.
A Flatwater Free Press and New York Times investigation found at least 20 Pillen Family Farms operations employed undocumented workers, and at least 12 Pillen workers were charged with using fake or stolen IDs. The company joined E-Verify the day Pillen launched his campaign for governor.
As a Michigan state senator running the corrections budget, Barrett inserted language stripping jail reimbursement from counties that limited cooperation with ICE. Kent County stood to lose $1.1 million a year, Wayne County $1.5 million. Michigan's own corrections department opposed it and the governor vetoed it.
Federal prosecutors in Minnesota were preparing to charge ICE agent Christian Castro with deprivation of rights under color of law. Washington ordered them to file only a false-statements charge. 'I objected in the strongest possible terms and fought it as hard as I could,' the prosecutor wrote. 'It wasn't enough.' The next day, the AP and CBS reported he had been fired.
H.R. 10222 would make a whole city — or a whole state — ineligible for any HUD grant. In Montana that money pays for homeless shelters, rapid rehousing and youth homelessness programs. Downing wouldn't answer what it would do to Helena.
An Ohio man died when a driver ran a stop sign. The state patrol's released materials do not tie the crash to the driver's immigration status or his Connecticut license. Husted wants to punish 19 states over it, and this is the second time his campaign has built an immigration attack on a fatal crash.
