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U.S. citizen wrongly detained by Border Patrol says government account is false

1 day ago | popular.info | Judd Legum

On April 8, Jose Hermosillo, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen, was wrongfully incarcerated by immigration authorities in Arizona, who claimed he was an undocumented immigrant. He was held for 10 days at Florence Correctional Center, a privately run immigration detention facility, before being released on April 17. These facts are not disputed.
Federal immigration authorities wrongfully detain U.S. citizens

3 days ago | popular.info | Judd Legum

Immigration law in the United States is based on the idea that all people, regardless of how they entered the country, have rights. Respecting the fundamental human rights of all people is not a "woke" idea invented by liberals in the last few years.
UPDATE: Congressman demands Social Security reverse "potentially illegal" new policy

1 week ago | popular.info | Judd Legum

On March 20, Popular Information revealed that the Social Security Administration (SSA) secretly implemented a policy shift that could impose massive demands on the agency's already overburdened network of field offices. Each year, the SSA automatically issues millions of Social Security numbers and cards to non-citizens granted work authorizations as part of an agreement between the SSA and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
UPDATE: North Carolina must restore wrongly invalidated ballots, election board rules

1 week ago | popular.info | Judd Legum

On Monday, Popular Information reported that at least 29 people had their ballots in the 2024 general election wrongly discarded by the North Carolina Supreme Court. The state's highest court ruled that about 260 ballots must be tossed because they were cast by people who were "never residents" of the state. But Popular Information, in collaboration with Anderson Alerts, uncovered evidence that at least 29 people have lived in North Carolina.
Truth Social launches scheme to profit from Trump's tariff policies

1 week ago | popular.info | Judd Legum

The signature economic policy of President Trump's second term has been tariffs, which Trump has imposed, frozen, and revised haphazardly. On April 2, which Trump dubbed "Liberation Day," Trump imposed "reciprocal" tariffs on nearly every country, ranging from 10% to over 40%. A week later, on April 9, Trump capped tariffs for most countries at 10% for 90 days. Simultaneously, he increased tariffs on imported goods from China to 145%.
North Carolina Supreme Court throws out hundreds of ballots based on flawed data

1 week ago | popular.info | Judd Legum

This is a special collaboration between Popular Information and Anderson Alerts, a newsletter about North Carolina politics. Josiah Young was born and raised in North Carolina. The 20-year-old attended college in North Carolina and runs a drone photography business in the state. So Young was surprised to learn that the North Carolina Supreme Court recently ordered his 2024 general election ballot to be discarded based on the false allegation that he was "never" a resident of the state.
Trump administration cancels program to protect Alabamans from raw sewage

1 week ago | popular.info | Judd Legum

On January 20, President Trump's first day back in office, he issued an executive order requiring the federal government to terminate "all discriminatory programs, including illegal DEI and 'diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility' …mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the Federal Government, under whatever name they appear." The executive order specifies that this includes all "environmental justice" programs.
UPDATE: After backlash, Social Security scraps plan to restrict phone service

2 weeks ago | popular.info | Judd Legum

On March 17, Popular Information published an internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo exposing a scheme to end phone service for new claims, which would have forced up to 85,000 elderly and disabled people each week to travel to field offices to verify their identities. An SSA source described the policy as part of an effort "to break the agency and hurt the public."The memo claimed the new policy was motivated by a desire to mitigate "fraud risks," an issue championed by Elon Musk.
$1,000,000,000,000

2 weeks ago | popular.info | Judd Legum

President Trump and his allies have told Americans that the federal deficit is an existential threat to the country that necessitates immediate spending cuts. "[I]f we don't do something, the entire government budget will be paying interest — there won’t be money for anything," Elon Musk said on a November 2024 episode of the Joe Rogan podcast. "No, there won’t be money for Social Security, there won’t be money for Medicare, nothing. That’s where we’re headed.
Three things we've done in 73 days

3 weeks ago | popular.info | Judd Legum

Popular Information doesn't just break news; it creates change. Consider a few examples of the impact of this newsletter since January 20, 2025:On February 3, Popular Information broke the news that DOGE staff at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) received unprecedented access to databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees.