Daily Dispatch 10/19/18

A sampling of today’s headlines on immigration, race, and related stories.

October 19, 2018

Top Stories:

♦  Southern Poverty Law Center, Center for Constitutional Rights, and American Immigration Council against DHS, alleging its sub-agency, CBP, is working with Mexican officials to conduct a campaign of misinformation and intimidation in an effort to deter asylum seekers. (Read the court filing .)

♦  John Kelly of the White House yesterday and didn’t return after a profanity-laced shouting match with John Bolton over foreign aid to Central America and rising numbers at the border.

 

Federal Register:

With 52 days left to leave your comment on the new “” rule, its is already spreading.

Related: You have 18 days to comment on the proposed that would dissolve the Flores agreement. Here is a on how much this rule would cost DHS (spoiler alert: it’s a lot).

 

Arizona:

As detention centers, jails, and shelters are overwhelmed, charities are motels to house migrant families.

Related: Advocates ICE is timing this mass release of immigrants in order to rev up the Trump base ahead of midterm elections.

 

Art of the Deal:

Trump’s plans to introduce a revamped version of family separation gives the perfect sales pitch, ‘it’s now or never so fork over the money.’

 

Other News:

Lyft ">raises millions for ACLU and other orgs in an effort to “support immigration rights, criminal justice reform, voting rights, and more.”

An piece from Fox News – and it’s not horrible!

In the Rio Grande Valley, at least 1800 kids have seen a parent by ICE in 2017 alone, and a new study shows the long term mental health effects, including PTSD and “toxic stress.”

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