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      Rights advocates worry that crisis has become an excuse to trample freedoms

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      ‘It’s absolutely terrifying’: government policies include detaining citizens, deporting immigrants and banning abortions A justice department recommendation would prevent people with confirmed cases of Covid-19 from applying for asylum. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/Associated Press As the US continues its scrambling response to the coronavirus outbreak, it has closed borders, quarantined some neighborhoods, and shut down businesses […] More

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      Trump throws tantrum over question about coronavirus fears: ‘You’re a terrible reporter’

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      President rails against NBC journalist’s ‘nasty question’ Trump announces new immigration restrictions US coronavirus news – live updates See all our coronavirus coverage Donald Trump has thrown an extraordinary temper tantrum on live television, lambasting a reporter who challenged him for raising hopes about a coronavirus treatment. Related: States ask Trump to deploy military to […] More

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      Trump keeps immigration courts open despite coronavirus risks

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      With 58 courts still open, the prospect of courthouses acting as incubators and disseminators of the virus remains pronounced The Trump administration is putting the health and potentially lives of thousands of federal judges, lawyers, court staff and undocumented immigrants and their families at risk by insisting that immigration courts remain open for the deportation […] More

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      US immigration agency to scale back aggressive operations amid coronavirus

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      Immigration and Customs Enforcement announces delay in arrests of foreign nationals except for those who pose risk to public safety US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) is scaling back the aggressive operations it launched under Donald Trump as the country contends with the new coronavirus outbreak. The US immigration agency announced on Wednesday that it […] More

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      US supreme court upholds policy of making asylum seekers wait in Mexico

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      Trump administration’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy will remain in force while a lawsuit challenging it plays out in the courts The US supreme court has allowed the Trump administration to continue enforcing a policy that makes asylum seekers wait in Mexico for US court hearings, despite lower court rulings that the policy is probably illegal. […] More

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      Family separations at US border plagued by problems, watchdog finds

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      Efforts to track children separated from families undermined by communication problems that raise serious questions The Trump administration’s effort to track children the US authorities separated from their families at the US-Mexico border is plagued by communication problems that raise questions about the accuracy of the data, a watchdog reported on Thursday. The administration created […] More

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      Republicans furious over history lesson comparing Trump to Nazis

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      Slide in Towson school shows Trump, swastika and Soviet flag Spokesman: class was on attempts ‘to limit or prevent migration’ Republican lawmakers in Maryland have criticized a history lesson at a public high school near Baltimore in which Donald Trump was compared with Nazis and communists. Related: Trump reportedly calls John Bolton a ‘traitor’ and […] More