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Trump administration resumes detention of immigrant families after Biden-era pause
By VALERIE GONZALEZUpdated 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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Trump overstepped his constitutional authority in freezing Congress' funding for USAID, judge says
A federal judge says President Donald Trump overstepped his authority in freezing almost all spending on U.S. humanitarian and development work abroad. Judge Amir H.
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Judge temporarily blocks part of Trump’s executive order against prominent Democratic Party-tied law firm Perkins Coie | CNN Politics
A federal judge on Wednesday halted parts of President Donald Trump’s executive order that targeted a Democratic-linked law firm.
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Judge hopes to rule next week on Trump order banning transgender people from military service
A federal judge says she hopes to rule next week on whether to block President Donald Trump’s administration from banning transgender people from serving in the U.S. military.
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Trump pardons former Tennessee lawmaker imprisoned in campaign fraud scheme
Brian Kelsey pleaded guilty to charges related to his attempts to funnel campaign money from his state legislative seat toward his failed 2016 congressional bid.
www.cbsnews.com
'Corruption in broad daylight': Dems outraged by Trump 'playing car salesman' for Tesla
President Donald Trump took the driver's seat to support Elon Musk on Tuesday following a steep decline in Tesla's stock amid ongoing protests at Tesla showrooms across the country.
www.foxnews.com
Musk eyes Social Security and benefit programs for cuts while claiming widespread fraud
Elon Musk says Social Security and other federal benefit programs will be targeted in his hunt for fraudulent spending.
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Trump hits back after retaliation to steel and aluminium tariffs
Trump repeated trade threats after the European Union and Canada retaliated to US steel and aluminium tariffs.
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Canada and the EU swiftly retaliate against Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said as the United States is “applying tariffs worth 28 billion dollars, we are responding with countermeasures worth 26 billion euros,” or about $28 billion.
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House divided over consequences for controversial congressman
Democratic lawmakers are against efforts to remove Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, from his committee position, while Republicans tell Fox they disagree with his disruption of Trump's joint address.
www.foxnews.com
A breakdown of major EPA deregulatory moves around water, air, climate
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Wednesday announced nearly three dozen deregulatory moves that he said would spur the U.S. economy by rolling back rules that have unfairly burdened industry.
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6 American prisoners in Kuwait released, land back in US, representative says
The Americans, many of whom are veterans and former military contractors, were convicted on drug charges, a representative for their families told ABC News.
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Trump campaigned as a protector of free speech. Critics say his actions as president threaten it
President Donald Trump campaigned as a champion of free speech, but First Amendment advocates say they’ve never seen freedom of speech under attack the way it has been in his second term.
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Canada, EU strike back at Trump tariffs; DOGE cuts mount: Trade war live updates
Canada and the European Union swiftly unveil retaliatory levies against the U.S., hours after Trump's sweeping tariffs on steel and aluminum.
www.usatoday.com
What to know about the charges against former Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris
Also a former spiritual advisor to Donald Trump, Robert Morris was indicted on five felony counts stemming from alleged sexual abuse of 12-year-old
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Chinese nationals banned from US student visas under new House GOP proposal
Rep. Riley Moore is leading a bill to ban Chinese nationals from getting student visas in the U.S.
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Trump halts doubling of tariffs on Canadian metals after Ontario suspends electricity price hikes
President Donald Trump’s threat to double his planned tariffs on steel and aluminum from 25% to 50% for Canada has led the provincial government of Ontario to suspend its planned surcharges on electricity sold to the United States.
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Israel, Hamas continue truce talks; Arab states present Gaza plan to US
Hamas welcomes Trump’s comments as US envoy briefed on Arab plan to rebuild Gaza.
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