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      ‘Deeply illogical’: this man’s life work could end homelessness – and Trump is doing all he can to stop it

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      After four decades of research and over a decade of federal support, Housing First’s Sam Tsemberis is ‘back to being an outlaw’ in the USNow in his fourth decade of spreading the word across most of the world’s continents about “Housing First”, an approach to helping homeless people that has convinced governments and non-profits alike to see housing as a human right, Sam Tsemberis experienced a first.He was censored by the US government. Continue reading… More

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      Trump news at a glance: House Republicans make rare, albeit symbolic, rebuke of Trump over Canada tariffs

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      Actually undoing Trump’s tariff policy would ultimately require his approval, which was unlikely – key US politics stories from Wednesday 11 February at a glanceDonald Trump had a warning for congressional Republicans Wednesday: any of them who joined an effort to rescind his tariffs on Canada would “seriously suffer the consequences come Election time”.Despite that threat, six members of the president’s party sided with Democrats in a largely symbolic resolution to disapprove of the national emergency Trump declared to impose tariffs on Canada. Continue reading… More

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      Border patrol chief praised federal agent who shot US citizen in Chicago

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      New evidence shows Gregory Bovino hailed agent who fired at Marimar Martinez five times in her carNewly released evidence has shown that Gregory Bovino, a border patrol chief who was the face of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts until last month, praised a federal agent who shot a Chicago woman during an immigration crackdown last year.
      Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, was shot five times by a border patrol agent in October while in her vehicle. She was charged with a felony after officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) accused her of trying to ram agents with her vehicle. But the case was abruptly dismissed after video evidence emerged showing that an agent had steered his vehicle into Martinez’s car.Lawyers for Martinez have pushed to make evidence in the dismissed criminal case public, saying they were especially motivated to do so after a federal agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis under similar circumstances. Continue reading… More

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      Trump’s racist post about the Obamas was a wake-up call for some. Why did it take so long? | Jamil Smith

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      The racism was not new. What was new was the inability to look past it. For a moment, at least, the blinders were offJohn from New Mexico, a self-professed lifelong Republican, called into C-Span’s Washington Journal earlier this month with penitence on his mind.“I voted for the president and supported him,” he began. “But I really want to apologize.”Jamil Smith is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading… More

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      The secretive, destructive work of an ICE attorney: ‘My job is to do what I’m told’

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      ICE lawyers in New York City earn more than $100,000 a year, enjoy generous benefits and post about rich social lives. Their work is vital to Trump’s deportation agendaOne morning last June in an immigration courtroom in New York City, a lawyer named Estefani Rodriguez looked as if she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She was a prosecuting attorney for the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Her job was to present immigration judges with motions to kick non-citizens out of the United States – to switch on the deportation machine.Rodriguez is in her late 30s, with long hair and full cheeks. According to the website of the Dominican Bar Association, her parents are immigrants from the Dominican Republic. In online photos, she sports a wide smile. But on this day, as she covered one of some 60 immigration courtrooms housed in labyrinthine federal buildings in lower Manhattan, she seemed to churn with angst. Repeatedly she touched her hands to her mouth, then under her glasses, then back to her mouth, and then she rubbed and rubbed her eyes. Continue reading… More

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      Federal prosecutors reportedly failed to secure indictments against six Democratic lawmakers over US military video – as it happened

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      This live blog is now closed.Trump news at a glance: Why did FBI raid Georgia election office? Trump-loyal election deniers told them toJamie Raskin, a top House Democrat, accused the justice department of making “puzzling, inexplicable redactions” to documents related to Jeffrey Epstein that obscured the names of abusers, while allowing the identities of the disgraced financier’s victims to become public.Raskin told reporters that he wanted to view the complete files to better understand how the justice department handled the redaction process. Continue reading… More

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      Grand jury declines to indict Democrats asking troops to refuse illegal orders

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      Trump, outraged by clip of six lawmakers, called them ‘traitors’ and said behavior was ‘punishable by death’A Washington DC grand jury declined to indict six Democratic lawmakers who were denounced by Donald Trump after they made a video urging troops to refuse illegal orders.Federal prosecutors had sought an indictment against the Democrats who participated in the video, including Elissa Slotkin, Mark Kelly, Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, Maggie Goodlander and Chrissy Houlahan, who all have military and intelligence backgrounds. Continue reading… More