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Aggressive new measures to detain, deport undocumented immigrants
Two senior cabinet members are in Mexico today, meeting with officials unhappy about the Trump Administration's plans for deporting undocumented immigrants. Meantime, promised roundups are already beginning and the next step is expedited deportations.
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenPhoto: A CBP Border Patrol agent conducts a pat down of a female Mexican being placed in a holding facility. (Gerald L. Nino, CBP, US Department of Homeland Security)
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3 storiesArizona seeks to quell protests
Last night in Arkansas, cries of "Do your job! Do your job! Do your job" greeted US Senator Tom Cotton, the latest Republican to have a town hall disrupted by protesters. In Arizona no such disruption has taken place, but the state legislature is re-defining a law aimed at organized crime to apply to protests… just in case.
Read the story7 minWill immigrant round-ups make America safer?
President Trump has given enforcement agents new authority to arrest almost any undocumented immigrant — even if they're working and paying taxes. Critics say that's a license to pick the "low-hanging fruit," rather than doing the hard work of finding drug dealers and gang members who really are dangerous.
Read the story33 minAn old drug gets a ridiculously high price….again
Are incentives for so-called "orphan drugs" being misused to jack up the price of one medication by 4000 percent?
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