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President Trump renews calls to deport ‘bad’ U.S. citizens 

During a recent visit to his so-called “Alligator Alcatraz,” an ICE migrant detention center opening in the Florida Everglades, President Donald Trump again suggested the idea that the United States should deport some U.S. citizens who have committed certain crimes.  While answering questions from the press at the detention center on Tuesday, Trump suggested that there are immigrants who are now citizens, as well as those born in the United States, who should be deported. He also managed to take […]

todayJuly 3, 2025 2

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‘Homegrowns are next’: Trump provokes fears for Black US citizens with legally dubious deportation proposal

After the Trump administration deported hundreds of undocumented migrants accused of being violent gang members to El Salvador, President Donald Trump on Monday appeared to imply he will explore deporting U.S. citizens who commit violent crimes. “We also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways that hit elderly ladies on the back of the head with a baseball bat when they’re not looking, that are absolute monsters,” Trump told reporters inside the Oval Office while hosting El Salvador President […]

todayApril 14, 2025

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Bennie Thompson awarded Presidential Citizens Medal by Biden in a full-circle moment for the Mississippi lawmaker

Longtime Congressman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., received one of the highest civilian honors on Thursday when President Joe Biden awarded him the Presidential Citizens Medal. Closing out the final days of his term, which ends on Jan. 20, Biden presented Thompson, 76, with the prestigious presidential award during a White House ceremony held in the East Room. For Thompson, who has been in Congress for more than 30 years and before that, served in local government, the presidential honor is years […]

todayJanuary 2, 2025 2

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Kim Kardashian joins VP Harris for criminal justice roundtable with formerly incarcerated Black and brown citizens

Vice President Kamala Harris hosted a roundtable Thursday on criminal justice reform with Kim Kardashian and four Black and brown recipients of recent pardons from President Joe Biden. The vice president invited Kardashian to hear from formerly incarcerated citizens Bobby Lowery, Jesse Mosley, Beverly Robinson, and Jason Hernandez, who shared their personal stories of how they turned their past with law enforcement into purpose as entrepreneurs and community leaders.“I’m a big believer in the power of redemption,” said Harris inside […]

todayApril 25, 2024 2