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Nathan Allen Danforth, who previously threatened to kill 3 presidents, sentenced for threatening to blow up federal courthouse
Updated Jan 26, 2021;
A former Massachusetts inmate was sentenced Tuesday for threatening to blow up a federal courthouse and harm federal agents.
Nathan Allen Danforth, previously a federal inmate who was transferred to FMC Devens for mental health and long-term care issues, was sentenced to three years after he pleaded guilty to making threats against federal agents and threatening to cause an explosion at a federal courthouse in Florida, according to U.S. District Attorney Andrew E. Lelling’s office on Tuesday.
This is the third time Danforth has been sentenced for making threats against government officials and buildings.
Justice Department Rescinds Trump’s ‘Zero Tolerance’ Immigration Policy
By Jaclyn Diaz
January 27, 2021
The Justice Department has ended the Trump-era “zero tolerance” policy for immigration offenses that allowed the U.S. government to separate thousands of children from their parents.
Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson rescinded the policy Tuesday in a memo sent to federal prosecutors.
Wilkinson wrote
that the policy “was inconsistent with the Department’s longstanding principle that we exercise judgment and make individualized assessments in criminal cases. Today’s action restores to prosecutors their traditional discretion to make charging decisions based on a careful review of the particular facts and circumstances of individual immigration cases.”
Biden s effort to reunite Trump-era separated families is trickiest immigration challenge Rick Jervis, USA TODAY
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AUSTIN, Texas – President Joe Biden unveiled a slew of immigration policy reversals and sweeping legislative proposals in his first week in office that were widely applauded by immigration advocates.
But his efforts to undo one of the more controversial policies of former President Donald Trump s administration – family separations at the border – might be the thorniest, advocates and attorneys said.
On his website, Biden called Trump’s policy of separating children – some who were infants – from parents and other relatives who crossed into the U.S. without permission a “moral failing” and promised to immediately end the prosecution of parents for minor immigration violations that led to the separations.