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Trump administration resumes detention of immigrant families after Biden-era pause

By VALERIE GONZALEZ
Updated 6:24 PM CDT, March 12, 2025

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Trump administration resumed family detention of immigrants last week in a South Texas facility after a Biden-era pause, a legal nonprofit group providing services to migrant families said Wednesday.

Fourteen immigrant families with children as young as one year old were in the detention facility in Karnes County, Texas, about 50 miles (80.5 kilometers) southeast of San Antonio, according to RAICES, which provides services to families at the center. The families are originally from Colombia, Romania, Iran, Angola, Russia, Armenia, Turkey and Brazil.

Faisal Al-Juburi, the organization’s chief external affairs officer, said the families had been detained in the U.S. near the Mexican and Canadian borders. Some were in the U.S. for as little as 20 days and others for as long as about 10 years, Al-Juburi said. The nonprofit provided service to adult detainees at the center prior to last week’s shift in the center’s detention population when the adult detainees were moved out.

Both the Obama administration and Trump’s first administration detained families until their immigration cases played out. Trump severely curbed asylum and forcibly separated children from their parents at the border in a policy widely denounced as inhumane.

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Reporter's notebook: Reexamining the Swiss cheese model

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Renowned psychology professor James Reason, who popularized what is known as the Swiss cheese model, has died. Mistakes, Reason theorized, were really a series of vulnerabilities lining up, like a single hole might in a stack of individual slices of Swiss cheese. John Dickerson explains.
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Trump's fraught relationship with NATO

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President Trump met with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte Thursday in the Oval Office. The meeting comes as the president has repeatedly scolded NATO allies for what he sees as inadequate defense spending, which has caused some European allies to fret about whether the U.S. will stand with them. Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief of The Economist, has more on the situation.
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In Trump's first 50 days, more than 32,000 ICE arrests

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More than 32,000 undocumented immigrants were arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the first 50 days of President Trump's second term, the agency said this week. Camilo Montoya-Galvez examines the White House's mass deportation efforts.
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Changes to Justice Department's Civil Rights Division under Trump

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The Justice Department last year reached an agreement with the city of Louisville to reform its police department in the wake of the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor, which occurred five years ago Thursday. However, as Scott MacFarlane explains, that agreement may be under threat by changes at the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division under the Trump administration.
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Barely: House GOP passes government funding bill without help from Democrats

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We learned something on Capitol Hill this week.

House Republicans can pass a government funding bill without Democratic assistance.

Barely. 217-213.

Republicans could only lose one vote. And that’s all they lost: Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.

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The GOP bill even picked up one Democratic yea: Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine.

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Undocumented mom of U.S. citizen girl with brain cancer who was removed to Mexico pleads for family's return

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The mother of four U.S. citizen children, including a 10-year-old girl recovering from brain cancer, is pleading for her family’s return to the United States, NBC News reported.

The family was removed from the country last month after immigration authorities deported the undocumented parents to Mexico.

Speaking Thursday from Mexico, the mother said in a video message in Spanish provided to NBC News that “we call on the elected officials of the United States to please help us come back so that our little girl continues to receive the medical...
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Harvard researchers sue the Trump administration for removing their work from public website

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Two Harvard medical school professors claim in a lawsuit filed against the Trump administration that their research was pulled from a public government website because it referred to the LGBTQ community.

Gordon Schiff and Celeste Royce said removing their work from the website, which focuses on patient safety, violates their First Amendment right to free speech. They claimed the administration unlawfully and dangerously suppressed their information on how to improve patient diagnoses, according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S District Court in...
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Putin gives tepid response to ceasefire proposal

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday responded tentatively to a U.S. proposal that would institute a 30-day ceasefire in the Ukraine war. Putin said that "the idea itself is correct, and we certainly support it," but added that "there are issues that we need to discuss." Holly Williams reports from Kyiv.
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Veterans fired by Trump administration speak out

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Veterans make up about 30% of the overall federal workforce. Many veterans who were new on the job, classified as probationary workers, were fired as part of the Trump administration's efforts to reduce the size of government through the Elon Musk-run Department of Government Efficiency. Some feel their military service is being ignored. Nancy Cordes reports.
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U.S. business owners respond to tariff war

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President Trump on Thursday threatened to put a 200% tariff on European alcohol if the European Union puts a 50% import tax on American whisky in retaliation for his tariffs on steel and aluminum. Kelly O'Grady examines the latest on the trade war.
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Irish prime minister says "tariffs are damaging" amid Trump trade standoff

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Washington — Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin said he hopes dialogue can resolve the trade war between the U.S. and the European Union after President Trump Thursday threatened to impose 200% retaliatory tariffs on European wines and alcohols.

The tariffs were a response to the European Union's counter-tariffs against Mr. Trump's initial steel and aluminum hikes.

"I think it's a lot of uncertainty at the moment," Martin said in an interview with CBS News on Thursday. "Overall, tariffs are damaging to trade, damaging to businesses, but also damaging...
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Chuck Schumer will vote to keep government open: 'For Donald Trump, a shutdown would be a gift'

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., says he will vote to keep the government open, warning that a shutdown has worse consequences for Americans and would only empower President Trump and Elon Musk further.

"I believe it is my job to make the best choice for the country to minimize the harms to the American people. Therefore, I will vote to keep the government open and not shut it down," Schumer said while speaking on the Senate floor on Thursday.

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Government shutdown: Which parks, museums and monuments could be closed?

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The possibility of a government shutdown means many federally funded national parks, monuments and attractions might be closed until the government reopens.
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Columbia University students who occupied Hamilton Hall expelled, suspended

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Columbia University students who occupied Hamilton Hall during pro-Palestinian protests last year have been suspended, expelled or had their degrees temporarily revoked.
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