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Jan 23, 2025 | 
abc7chicago.com | Lauren Peller |Allison Pecorin |Armando Garcia |John Parkinson |Stacey Dec
WASHINGTON -- The House passed an amended version of the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday on a vote of 263-156, teeing up major immigration reform at the start of President Donald Trump's second administration. Forty-six Democrats joined Republicans in voting in favor of the bill, breaking with Democratic leadership.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
kxel.com | Armando Garcia |Kiara Alfonseca
(SPRINGFIELD, Ohio) — Shortly before the ABC News presidential debate on Tuesday, the parents of a child who was killed in a bus crash caused by a Haitian immigrant in Springfield, Ohio, last year made an emotional plea for former President Donald Trump, vice presidential candidate JD Vance and others to stop using the death of their child “as a political tool.” “They have spoken my son’s name and used his death for political gain,” said Nathan Clark, who spoke at a Springfield City...
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
abcnews.go.com | Armando Garcia |Mireya Villarreal |Quinn Owen
During former President Donald Trump's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, he displayed a graph he described as the "chart that saved my life." It's the same chart that was displayed behind Trump when shots rang out during his attempted assassination on July 13. Trump claimed the chart shows how his administration successfully controlled immigration at the southern border and how President Biden reversed some of the progress made during his presidency.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Armando Garcia
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
abcnews.go.com | Armando Garcia
Police sources say officers deployed a "dry stun" and the baby was unharmed. New York City Mayor Eric Adams says NYPD officers took "appropriate action" during a violent altercation with a migrant in a city-operated shelter in the borough of Queens that was caught on camera. In a video obtained by The New York Times, officers can be seen repeatedly striking and using a stun gun on the man, identified by the NYPD as 47-year-old Yanny Cordero, while he’s holding his 1-year-old child.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
sports.yahoo.com | Armando Garcia |Davi Merchan
Virgilio Aguilar Mendez, the Guatemalan teen charged with aggravated manslaughter after a Florida police officer collapsed after a struggle while attempting to arrest him, is now being represented by high-profile criminal defense attorney Jose Baez. Speaking exclusively with ABC News, Baez said the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office conducted an "unlawful arrest" of his client and that racial profiling was the reason he was initially approached by police.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
kxel.com | Armando Garcia
(EL PASO, Texas) — The Texas Attorney General’s office is suing to shut down a well-known Catholic nonprofit that helps to shelter migrants in El Paso, Texas. Officials from the AG’s office visited Annunciation House on Feb. 7, demanding it provide extensive documentation that included the identities of all migrants the organization has helped within 24 hours, according to court records. An attorney representing Annunciation House filed a lawsuit on Feb.
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Nov 18, 2023 | 
rsn.org | Armando Garcia
Tuesday evening, the Texas House of Representatives voted in favor of one of the most controversial and strictest immigration laws in the country. It will have major implications for migrants across the state and may also trigger lawsuits and an international dispute with Mexico.
The bill now heads to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's desk to be signed into law.
Before the vote on Tuesday, state Rep.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
abcnews.go.com | Armando Garcia
SB 4 passed in the fourth round of a special legislative session. Tuesday evening, the Texas House of Representatives voted in favor of one of the most controversial and strictest immigration laws in the country. It will have major implications for migrants across the state and may also trigger lawsuits and an international dispute with Mexico. The bill now heads to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's desk to be signed into law. Before the vote on Tuesday, state Rep.
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Aug 12, 2023 | 
abcnews.go.com | Armando Garcia |Jade Lawson
A restaurant manager says the incident left employees "upset" and "traumatized."ByArmando Garcia and Jade LawsonPolice in Kenosha, Wisconsin, say they've launched an internal investigation into the forceful arrest of a man wrongfully suspected of fleeing a crash. The incident was caught on cell phone video inside an Applebee's restaurant.
