Month: November 2019

Report: US lacked technology to track separated families

PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. government separated thousands of families despite knowing it lacked the technology to document and track their whereabouts, according to a report released Wednesday by an internal government watchdog. The problem resulted in some parents languishing in custody for weeks without knowing the location of their children. The report by the…

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Government Watchdog Found an Additional 1,300 Migrant Children Might Have Been Separated From Their Parents Due to 'Widespread Errors' in System

An additional 1,300 children might have been separated from their parents by the U.S. government before and during the Trump Administration’s Zero Tolerance Policy, but were not properly tracked due to “widespread errors” in the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) information technology and handling of records, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found. Internal…

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Police cited 55 people for eating on San Francisco trains. Only nine were white

Police officers for the San Francisco Bay Area commuter train system disproportionately target black riders with citations for eating and drinking, according to new data, renewing concerns about racial profiling. The Bay Area Rapid Transit (Bart) data was released following a viral video showing police handcuffing a 31-year-old black man who was cited for eating…

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Trump defends pardons for service members accused of war crimes, blasts impeachment at Florida rally

Trump defends pardons for service members accused of war crimes, blasts impeachment at Florida rally originally appeared on abcnews.go.com Following a string of impeachment inquiry hearings last week, President Donald Trump is back on the campaign trail Tuesday night with a rally in Florida for the first time since announcing he’d changed his residency from…

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Travel is 'going to be chaotic': Winter storm will dump a foot of snow from Rockies to Great Lakes

A powerful pre-Thanksgiving winter storm that’s forecast to dump up to a foot of snow from the Rockies to the Great Lakes on Tuesday caused airlines to announce travel alerts and the National Weather Service to issue blizzard and weather warnings. Hundreds of flights at Denver’s International Airport were canceled on Tuesday. More than 1,000…

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