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California, immigration and housing @NOTUSreports ✉️[email protected]
Joined December 2019
Last Monday, more than 30,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students—roughly 21 percent of the district—didn’t show up to school. This is triple the typical rate of absence.
theassemblync.com
Some parents and teachers say they expected better communication and more understanding from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools amid CBP presence.
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“Bluntly, the taxpayers of D.C. are being screwed.” New investigation from @stevesthompson details how developers w political ties to Mayor Bowser stand to collect millions from an affordable housing project near the RFK Stadium. https://t.co/1t3hGkmNZp
washingtonpost.com
The Ethel was built on land provided by the city and benefited from a cascade of government subsidies that helped enrich its developers, a Washington Post investigation found.
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The NYPD confirmed its involvement in a counterterrorism investigation that spied on a private Signal chat of volunteer observers monitoring ICE activity inside NYC’s immigration courthouses. https://t.co/k2fuK3Pm5h
thecity.nyc
An FBI document referred to activists at immigration courts as “anarchist violent extremist actors” and cited a "sensitive source with excellent access” to an encrypted chat.
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Selena like you’ve never seen her before. @FuturoMedia's Executive Editor Maria Garcia (@NopalitaMami) talks with Suzette Quintanilla and filmmaker Isabel Castro about the new @netflix documentary, "Selena y Los Dinos: A Family’s Legacy." https://t.co/RGgqeccMjj
latinousa.org
Suzette Quintanilla and filmmaker Isabel Castro about the Netflix documentary "Selena y Los Dinos: A Family’s Legacy" and behind-the-scenes stories.
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Thousands of undocumented immigrants in Colorado lose health care subsidies
cpr.org
The state is cutting the number of people who can receive free insurance from 12,000 to 6,700 because of changes in the Big Beautiful Bill.
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NEW: Today we published an investigation into something happening largely out of view: immigrant kids getting separated from their families and placed in federal shelters by ICE, in some cases after something as mundane as a traffic stop🧵 1/
propublica.org
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the...
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NOTUS is thrilled to announce veteran journalist @deirdrekwalsh will serve as a senior editor managing NOTUS’ Capitol Hill team beginning in January 2026.
notus.org
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SCOOP: DOJ lawyers told a federal judge yesterday they have to deport Kilmar Abrego to Liberia because the door to Costa Rica was closed. Costa Rica says that’s not true. Read it:
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NEW AP INVESTIGATION: With license plate readers and local law enforcement partnerships, Border Patrol is monitoring American drivers and detaining those exhibiting ‘suspicious’ travel patterns in the U.S. interior. w/ @garanceburke
https://t.co/eGqvvn0lHV
apnews.com
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
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Zohran Mamdani came to the White House — and the meeting was surprisingly friendly. Even Trump administration staff gathered outside the EEOB to catch a glimpse of him. New in @NOTUSreports
https://t.co/fPcF7vpaIT
notus.org
They indicated that New York City may not be on as shaky ground with the administration as some feared.
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ICYMI via @CalMatters: @ICEgov opened a detention center in a former CA prison. Detainees are suing over inhumane conditions, inc. lack of appropriate clothing for the chilly desert nights and appropriate medical attention for life-threatening conditions.
calmatters.org
Immigrants in California's newest ICE detention center allege they're experiencing inhumane conditions and that they're not getting access to lawyers. Until recently, the site was a state prison.
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More than 65,000 people are in immigration detention, a 67% increase from the average daily population in detention centers of 38,990 last November. https://t.co/EOgRvbQDip
notus.org
Most of the people in ICE custody do not have a criminal history or charges.
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Big Development: judge rules Trump use of National Guard in DC is illegal. https://t.co/0cIX6UjlFI
politico.com
The judge postponed the impact of her decision until Dec. 11 to give the Trump administration time to appeal her decision.
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I walked into federal court in Maryland today to cover a Kilmar Abrego Garcia hearing. It turns out a federal grand jury is investigating the handling of the Adam Schiff criminal probe, right across the hall. More w/ @ryanjreilly and Mike Kosnar:
nbcnews.com
A spokesperson for the Justice Department declined to comment, citing the secrecy of grand jury investigations.
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DHS and the Coast Guard were adamant that the display of swastikas and nooses would still be punished severely, despite language changes in their new 2026 guidelines. @NOTUSreports
https://t.co/3u0tXT7xDR
notus.org
A new policy change described swastikas as “potentially divisive symbols.” Officials dismissed reports that this constituted a change in how they would be handled.
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Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Alex Padilla lambasted the training standards for newly hired immigration agents in a scathing letter to the Trump administration on Thursday. Letter first reported by @NOTUSreports
https://t.co/3Spld17FK9
notus.org
“The authority to detain and use force, including, in extreme circumstances, deadly force, is not a game,” the senators wrote in a scathing letter.
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The Trump admin is continuing to cut down Biden's climate legacy: This time by removing the major clean energy offices in the Department of Energy. https://t.co/BcQBx4ADbH
notus.org
The clean energy offices beefed up under the Biden administration no longer appear on the agency’s organizational chart.
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The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious. https://t.co/VCIvNYQ8Gm
abcnews.go.com
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious
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New: The White House and its allies believe Ted Cruz is taking positions antithetical to Trump from his perch as chair of the Senate Commerce Committee as a way to position himself against Vance ahead of 2028. https://t.co/WyurHSNZk1
notus.org
The administration sees the positions Cruz has taken as Commerce Committee chair as directly tied to a possible presidential run and as ways to distinguish himself from a potential 2028 rival, Vice...
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