Trump withdraws his harassment lawfare litigation against journo Anne Selzer from Federal Court to avoid a judicial dismissal and then immediately files exactly the same nonsense lawsuit in Iowa state court. Clear abuse of process and intimidation.
update - CBS bribes Trump with a bullshit "settlement deal" in Trump's groundless lawsuit against the network.
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The Trump administration has brought few apparent penalties against businesses employing undocumented immigrants, despite promising to use unprecedented enforcement actions against employers to break up the economic incentives for illegal immigration.
A Washington Post analysis found that just one business has faced charges from among the roughly two dozen the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has announced raiding.
In that case, stemming from a March operation, the manager of a San Diego powder coating business pleaded guilty earlier this month to a pattern of hiring undocumented immigrants, admitting to employing at least 10 people illegally.
The manager, John Washburn, was sentenced to a year of probation and 50 hours of community service, the Justice Department said.
ICE said in April it had subpoenaed records on about 1,200 business, netted the highest rate of worker arrests in its history, and proposed $1 million in fines related to workplace operations.
The apparently lax enforcement against employers comes despite promises of tough penalties for those hiring undocumented people.
The Department of Homeland Security has vowed there will be no “safe spaces” for employers illegally hiring undocumented people.
“You’re going to see more work site enforcement than you’ve ever seen in the history of this nation,” White House border czar Tom Homan said earlier this month. “We’re going to flood the zone.”
While few companies appear to have been hit with punishments scores of workers have been arrested.
Immigration raids have taken place at or near businesses across the country, ranging from restaurants and farm fields, to Home Depot parking lots around Los Angeles to a Louisiana race track. More than 55,000 people are estimated to currently be in immigration detention.
The Independent has contacted the White House for comment on worksite enforcement levels, which deferred to the Department Homeland Security, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Justice Department, when asked about enforcement levels, provided the following statement: “Under President Trump and Attorney General Bondi’s leadership, the Department of Justice will enforce federal immigration laws and hold bad actors accountable when they employ illegal aliens in violation of federal law.”
In recent weeks, Trump, whose own businesses have been accused of illegally using migrant labor, has toyed with finding some sort of immigration compromise for businesses in hospitality and agriculture, which rely heavily on immigrant labor. But his immigration officials have insisted workplace raids will continue everywhere.
“We’re working on it right now. We’re going to work it so that some kind of a temporary pass where people pay taxes, where the farmer can have a little control, as opposed to you walk in and take everybody away,” Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures.
Trump threatened tough punishment for employers who hired migrant workers. So far only a handful have faced the wrath
A Washington Post analysis found that just one business has faced charges from among the roughly two dozen the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has announced raiding.
In that case, stemming from a March operation, the manager of a San Diego powder coating business pleaded guilty earlier this month to a pattern of hiring undocumented immigrants, admitting to employing at least 10 people illegally.
The manager, John Washburn, was sentenced to a year of probation and 50 hours of community service, the Justice Department said.
ICE said in April it had subpoenaed records on about 1,200 business, netted the highest rate of worker arrests in its history, and proposed $1 million in fines related to workplace operations.
The apparently lax enforcement against employers comes despite promises of tough penalties for those hiring undocumented people.
The Department of Homeland Security has vowed there will be no “safe spaces” for employers illegally hiring undocumented people.
“You’re going to see more work site enforcement than you’ve ever seen in the history of this nation,” White House border czar Tom Homan said earlier this month. “We’re going to flood the zone.”
While few companies appear to have been hit with punishments scores of workers have been arrested.
Immigration raids have taken place at or near businesses across the country, ranging from restaurants and farm fields, to Home Depot parking lots around Los Angeles to a Louisiana race track. More than 55,000 people are estimated to currently be in immigration detention.
The Independent has contacted the White House for comment on worksite enforcement levels, which deferred to the Department Homeland Security, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Justice Department, when asked about enforcement levels, provided the following statement: “Under President Trump and Attorney General Bondi’s leadership, the Department of Justice will enforce federal immigration laws and hold bad actors accountable when they employ illegal aliens in violation of federal law.”
In recent weeks, Trump, whose own businesses have been accused of illegally using migrant labor, has toyed with finding some sort of immigration compromise for businesses in hospitality and agriculture, which rely heavily on immigrant labor. But his immigration officials have insisted workplace raids will continue everywhere.
“We’re working on it right now. We’re going to work it so that some kind of a temporary pass where people pay taxes, where the farmer can have a little control, as opposed to you walk in and take everybody away,” Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures.
Trump threatened tough punishment for employers who hired migrant workers. So far only a handful have faced the wrath
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that recent mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were likely unlawful and ordered the Trump administration to halt plans to downsize and reorganize the nation's health workforce.
U.S. District Judge Melissa DuBose granted the preliminary injunction sought by a coalition of attorneys general from 19 states and the District of Columbia in a lawsuit filed in early May.
DuBose said the states had shown “irreparable harm,” from the cuts and were likely to prevail in their claims that “HHS’s action was both arbitrary and capricious as well as contrary to law.”
“The executive branch does not have the authority to order, organize, or implement wholesale changes to the structure and function of the agencies created by Congress,” DuBose wrote in a 58-page order handed down in U.S. district court in Providence.
Her order blocks the Trump administration from finalizing layoffs announced in March or issuing any further firings. HHS is directed to file a status report by July 11.
The ruling applies to terminated employees in four different divisions of HHS: the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the Center for Tobacco Products within the Food and Drug Administration; the Office of Head Start within the Administration for Children and Families and employees of regional offices who work on Head Start matters; and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated more than 10,000 employees in late March and consolidated 28 agencies to 15. Since then, agencies including the CDC have repeatedly rescinded layoffs affecting hundreds of employees, including in branches that monitor HIV, hepatitis and other diseases.
The attorneys general argued that the massive restructuring was arbitrary and outside of the scope of the agency's authority. The lawsuit also says the action decimated essential programs and pushed burdensome costs onto states.
“The intended effect … was the wholesale elimination of many HHS programs that are critical to public health and safety,” the lawsuit argued.
The cuts are part of a federal “Make America Healthy Again” directive to streamline costly agencies and reduce redundancies. Kennedy told senators at a May 14 hearing that there is “so much chaos and disorganization" at HHS.
But the restructuring had eliminated key teams that regulate food safety and drugs, as well as support a wide range of programs for tobacco, HIV prevention and maternal and infant health. Kennedy has since said that because of mistakes, 20% of people fired might be reinstated.
HHS layoffs were likely unlawful and must be halted, US judge says
U.S. District Judge Melissa DuBose granted the preliminary injunction sought by a coalition of attorneys general from 19 states and the District of Columbia in a lawsuit filed in early May.
DuBose said the states had shown “irreparable harm,” from the cuts and were likely to prevail in their claims that “HHS’s action was both arbitrary and capricious as well as contrary to law.”
“The executive branch does not have the authority to order, organize, or implement wholesale changes to the structure and function of the agencies created by Congress,” DuBose wrote in a 58-page order handed down in U.S. district court in Providence.
Her order blocks the Trump administration from finalizing layoffs announced in March or issuing any further firings. HHS is directed to file a status report by July 11.
The ruling applies to terminated employees in four different divisions of HHS: the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the Center for Tobacco Products within the Food and Drug Administration; the Office of Head Start within the Administration for Children and Families and employees of regional offices who work on Head Start matters; and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated more than 10,000 employees in late March and consolidated 28 agencies to 15. Since then, agencies including the CDC have repeatedly rescinded layoffs affecting hundreds of employees, including in branches that monitor HIV, hepatitis and other diseases.
The attorneys general argued that the massive restructuring was arbitrary and outside of the scope of the agency's authority. The lawsuit also says the action decimated essential programs and pushed burdensome costs onto states.
“The intended effect … was the wholesale elimination of many HHS programs that are critical to public health and safety,” the lawsuit argued.
The cuts are part of a federal “Make America Healthy Again” directive to streamline costly agencies and reduce redundancies. Kennedy told senators at a May 14 hearing that there is “so much chaos and disorganization" at HHS.
But the restructuring had eliminated key teams that regulate food safety and drugs, as well as support a wide range of programs for tobacco, HIV prevention and maternal and infant health. Kennedy has since said that because of mistakes, 20% of people fired might be reinstated.
HHS layoffs were likely unlawful and must be halted, US judge says
