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What to stream this weekend: Willie Nelson, Chip & Joanna Gaines, Jim Henson and Ben Platt
Read full article: What to stream this weekend: Willie Nelson, Chip & Joanna Gaines, Jim Henson and Ben PlattThis week’s new streaming entertainment releases include a new album from Willie Nelson, Benedict Cumberbatch playing a curmudgeon puppeteer in “Eric” on Netflix and home improvement gurus Chip and Joanna Gaines fix up a mid-century modern lake house on HGTV.
US fully restores protections for DACA recipients
Read full article: US fully restores protections for DACA recipientsThe announcement is still a major victory for young people who have been unable to apply since Trump ended DACA in September 2017. His administration has long argued that DACA is unconstitutional. DACA shields about 650,000 people from deportation and makes them eligible for work permits. DACA recipients and their supporters greeted the news with a mix of elation and awareness that their futures are precarious, even with Biden's support. Her younger brother, now 16, is in high school and plans to eventually seek DACA protection as well.
Honduran national charged after nearly 30 human smuggling victims rescued from Houston home
Read full article: Honduran national charged after nearly 30 human smuggling victims rescued from Houston homeHOUSTON – A Honduran national was charged Friday in connection with the discovery of nearly 30 victims of human smuggling in a southwest Houston home. RELATED READ: Woman’s cousin among 30 people rescued in human smuggling operation in HoustonInvestigators said the victims, who were from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Cuba, reported they were picked up in Brownsville between two days and a week ago. Prosecutors said the home where the victims were being kept had boarded-up windows and deadbolt locks on the interior doors. Dominguez-Maldonado, who is charged with harboring illegal aliens, is accused of watching over the victims and performing other actions in the furtherance of a human smuggling operation. Police said the victims were evaluated at a nearby school gymnasium before being transported to an immigration facility.
Records show Trump’s border wall is costing taxpayers billions more than initial contracts
Read full article: Records show Trump’s border wall is costing taxpayers billions more than initial contractsNeither U.S. Customs and Border Protection nor the Corps publicly maintains a comprehensive list of all border wall contracts and their modifications. Some of the border wall contract modifications essentially amount to new projects that in some cases then undergo their own modifications. A review of recent Corps non-border wall contracts shows no recent contract add-ons that approach the scale of border wall awards. SLSCO officials referred questions about its border wall contracts to CBP. Southwest Valley Constructors, a New Mexico-based affiliate of Kiewit Corp. that formed several months after Trump’s inauguration, has received the most in border wall contracts since 2017.
Trump administration won’t accept new DACA applications
Read full article: Trump administration won’t accept new DACA applicationsRoughly 66,000 more would be eligible if new applications were accepted because they met the age requirement — 15 — after the Trump administration tried to end the program in 2017, according to the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. The administration’s monthlong silence had unnerved many DACA recipients and those who wanted to join. “It’s infuriating that we continue to be the punching bag for the administration,” she said of fellow DACA recipients. Trump has tried unsuccessfully to work with Congress on a broader immigration package that would couple DACA with tougher enforcement measures. “We’re going to work with a lot of people on DACA,” Trump told reporters.
Trump says he will renew effort to end DACA program after Supreme Court decision
Read full article: Trump says he will renew effort to end DACA program after Supreme Court decisionPHOENIX President Donald Trump says he will renew his administration's effort to end legal protections for young immigrants after Supreme Court blocked the first try. In a tweet Friday morning, Trump said, The Supreme Court asked us to resubmit on DACA, nothing was lost or won. The high court on Thursday ruled that President Donald Trump improperly ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2017. The ruling means young immigrants can keep working, providing for their families and making a difference in this country," she said. Now that theres been a Supreme Court decision, really the instructions are gonna be you need to bring back the program in full effect, Perez said.
Supreme Court blocks Trump administration from ending DACA
Read full article: Supreme Court blocks Trump administration from ending DACAWASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trumps effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants, a stunning rebuke to the president in the midst of his reelection campaign. The justices rejected administration arguments that the 8-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program is illegal and that courts have no role to play in reviewing the decision to end DACA. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court that the administration did not pursue the end of the program properly. We do not decide whether DACA or its rescission are sound policies, Roberts wrote. We address only whether the agency complied with the procedural requirement that it provide a reasoned explanation for its action.
32-year-old US citizen dies in border custody in Texas
Read full article: 32-year-old US citizen dies in border custody in TexasHOUSTON – A 32-year-old U.S. citizen has died after being arrested by Border Patrol agents in South Texas, the U.S. government said Wednesday. U.S. Customs and Border Protection did not identify the man in a statement issued Wednesday, but alleged that he was a suspect in a human smuggling incident. The man was arrested at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday by agents assigned to the Border Patrol station in Brackettville, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of the border with Mexico. The agency did not identify the man's illness, symptoms or cause of death, which was first reported by BuzzFeed News. The Border Patrol does not ordinarily detain U.S. citizens, but it routinely arrests Americans accused of trying to smuggle immigrants who have crossed the border illegally.
Most Texas county voter websites are unsecured, study finds
Read full article: Most Texas county voter websites are unsecured, study findsHOUSTON – The voter websites maintained by Texas counties are not in great shape when it comes to security. Hicks is a guest on this week’s Houston Newsmakers with Khambrel Marshall and says there is an obvious need for everyone to know their county website is secure. “The Med Center -- they need a grocery store,” Helfman said. “The Museum District and all the new high rises need a grocery store. Hear much more about what it took to get this new magnet of the community on this week’s Houston Newsmakers.
Immigration Rights hotline flooded with phone calls since ICE raids began
Read full article: Immigration Rights hotline flooded with phone calls since ICE raids beganHOUSTON – Immigration Rights hotline has been flooded with phone calls since ICE raids began Sunday. Andrea Guttin, with Houston Immigration Legal Services Collaborative, said the organization has extended the Immigration Rights hotline into the weekend. She said the call volume was anticipated to be high following deportation orders carried out Sunday in 10 cities, including Houston. Guttin said most callers inquired about the difference between an administrative warrant and a warrant signed by a judge. “A lot of the other 10 cities that were the subject of potential raids today have locally supported public funds for deportation defense.