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Biden Admin. Rewards Sanctuary Cities, Re-Opens Federal Grants
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The Department of Justice has repealed an extremely effective policy put in place during Donald Trump’s presidency that restricted hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to Sanctuary Cities that disregard the rule of law and endanger their law-abiding constituents.
Acting head of the Office of Justice Programs, Maureen Henneberg, said in an internal memo that prior grant recipients that are recipients of the department s popular $250 million annual grant program for local law enforcement, will no longer be required to cooperate with ICE as a condition of their funding.
Merrick Garland ended a Trump-era policy blocking sanctuary cities from receiving millions in funding from the Justice Department as punishment for refusing to work with federal enforcement agencies attempting to crack down on illegal immigration.
Joe Biden s attorney general quietly issued a memo two weeks ago that ended former President Donald Trump s order.
In a new memo obtained by Reuters Wednesday acting DOJ Programs head Maureen Henneberg directs the agency to restart any pending grants that were stopped under the previous policy. The Department informed grant recipients and applicants that they will continue receiving certain Department grants without making certifications, the DOJ writes on its community-oriented policing page.
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With the hospital system on the brink of collapse, India marked another bleak milestone on Wednesday after reporting more than 3,200 deaths from the coronavirus, pushing the country past 200,000 total deaths during the pandemic. India became the fourth country to surpass the grim marker behind the United States, Brazil and Mexico.
India is struggling to contain the new surge of COVID-19 cases, which started spiking in March, setting yet another global record, reporting 362,757 new infections in a single day. Hospitalizations and deaths are reaching record highs as supplies of oxygen, hospital beds and other critical supplies have run out. And, experts fear the crisis may be even worse than the officially reported figures because of possible undercounting.