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The Feds Are Investigating Local Police Departments Again. Here s What to Expect.
New Orleans police officers line up during a Black Lives Matter protest last June. New Orleans law enforcement has been under a federal consent decree since 2013.
Gerald Herbert
The U.S. Justice Department is back in the business of policing local police.
After a four-year hiatus under President Donald Trump, the federal government will once again investigate local law enforcement agencies for systemic constitutional violations, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced last month. First in the queue are the police departments of Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky.
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It comes as the number of migrants crossing the southern border is going down.
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How the Biden administration could fix the immigrant border crisis
Ali Noorani, president of the National Immigration Forum, discusses the surge of migrant children at the border.Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Four families separated under the Trump administration s zero tolerance immigration policy in 2017 will be reunited this week, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced on Monday.
One mother fled from Honduras with her children, another came from Mexico prior to their separations. The two other families were from Guatemala. They will now be allowed to reunite with their children in the U.S.
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Biden Administration Starts Reuniting Families Separated at Mexico Border
The Biden administration is reuniting four children who were separated from their families at the U.S.–Mexico border under the previous administration, officials said on May 3.
“We expect four families to be reunited tomorrow,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on “CBS This Morning.”
The reunification effort stems from a task force that President Joe Biden established via an executive order in February. The task force was told to focus on identifying parents and children broken apart during the Trump administration and to figure out how to reunify them.
Families were separated at the border when an adult was charged with illegally entering the United States. Under the Trump administration, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a “zero tolerance” policy of prosecuting all adults who cross the border illegally, as required under 8 U.S.C. Section 1325(a).
Attorney General Merrick Garland has set up a potential expectations gap with civil rights activists who have warned that a mere return to Obama-era strategies to combat abusive policing is a recipe for failure and disappointment.