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January 14, 2020

Trump Plans to Divert Additional $7.2 Billion from Military Budget to Border Wall
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In immigration news, the Trump administration is planning to divert an
additional $7.2 billion from the military budget for the construction of
Trump's promised border wall, bringing the total amount allocated to
wall construction so far to over $18 billion. Meanwhile, in Chicago,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, is detaining fewer
immigrants. ICE says that's because of new Illinois laws such as the
TRUST Act, which bars police from detaining people based on their
immigration status. Chicago's sanctuary ordinance also prohibits police
from giving ICE agents access to people who are in the custody of local
police. This comes as a trial is underway in Arizona over the conditions
in Border Patrol's short-term detention facilities. Immigrant rights
groups have condemned the "horrific conditions" inside these facilities,
including overcrowding, freezing temperatures and lack of adequate food,
water or medical care. And in more news on global migration, a
10-year-old child was found dead at a Paris airport in the undercarriage
of a plane that had arrived from the Ivory Coast. Meanwhile, eight
children were among the 11 migrants who drowned when their boat sank off
the western coast of Turkey as they attempted to reach Europe.


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