The lawmakers provided examples of childcare workers ensnared by Trump's deportation push, including a nanny in Wisconsin, an asylum seeker with no criminal record who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after a routine check-in, and immigrant teachers at a preschool in Washington DC who lost their work authorizations and were forced to quit due to TPS terminations by the Trump administration.
While appearing on former deputy FBI director Dan Bongino's podcast on Monday, the present called on Republicans to nationalize the voting, in at least 15 places, although he did not clarify which ones. The Republicans should say, we want to take over', Trump said in the interview. The constitution confers authority over elections to states, and Trump didn't elaborate on what legal mechanism he thinks nationalizing elections would be possible.
Meanwhile, over 600,000 Venezuelans in the United States have lost the protection of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and are now at risk of being deported. Maduro is facing the most severe crisis of his mandate, yet each passing day is another day in power, even as the arrival of the USS Gerald Ford in Caribbean waters and the launch of Operation Southern Spear seem to signal an imminent checkmate.
Earlier this summer, 17-year-old Kevin Robles was in his friend's car driving through their neighborhood in Oceanside when he noticed vehicles with tinted windows and masked men taking someone out of a car. He started live streaming on Instagram and it went viral. But then a little over a week later, agents with Homeland Security Investigations showed up at his family's home, smashing windows and tossing flash grenades, taking both of his parents into custody.