The White House said the budget is part of “bold action” to ensure the criminal justice “serves and protects all Americans.”
Former police officers see it differently. They say boosting the budget of the department’s Civil Rights Division is evidence they are going to ramp up investigations into the country’s police departments.
The Civil Rights Division conducts the probes, known as “pattern or practice” investigations, in search of police violating minorities’ civil rights.
“With that kind of a bump, it sounds like they are going to get very aggressive,” said Randy Petersen, a former officer and senior researcher for the Texas Public Policy Foundation. “They are capitalizing on the national anti-police sentiment on the left and couching it with a comfy title like community relations.”
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As part of a sweeping effort aimed at ending domestic abuse against women, Joe Biden pledged on the campaign trail to restore asylum protections for domestic violence survivors from other countries.
But 100 days into his presidency, that hasn t happened, as President Biden s administration grapples with a humanitarian crisis at the southern border that has overshadowed much of his immigration agenda.
In the meantime, immigrant advocates say abuse survivors are still being deported to their home countries where they could face further abuse and where authorities won t help them. Women, children, families are being sent back to the very dangers that they fled, says Blaine Bookey, a lawyer at the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at The University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
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President Biden pledged on the campaign trail to restore asylum protections for domestic violence survivors from other countries but more than 100 days into his presidency, that yet hasn t happened. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
As part of a sweeping effort aimed at ending domestic abuse against women, Joe Biden pledged on the campaign trail to restore asylum protections for domestic violence survivors from other countries.
But 100 days into his presidency, that hasn t happened, as President Biden s administration grapples with a humanitarian crisis at the southern border that has overshadowed much of his immigration agenda.
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