1 ACLU Sues Trump Administration Over Raids On Undocumented Immigrants
The Trump administration has announced planned raids across the country on Sunday, targeting undocumented immigrants. The American Civil Liberties Union countered that announcement by filing a lawsuit ahead of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids on set for Sunday.The lawsuit seeks to protect people who would be targeted by the raids. They are arguing that constitutional due process requires immigrants to be given a hearing in front of an immigration judge before being deported.“The Trump Administration’s plan to arrest and deport thousands of Central American families and children without giving them a fair day in court is both illegal and immoral,” Ahilan Arulanantham, senior counsel at the ACLU Southern California, said in a statement. “More than one hundred years ago, the Supreme Court decided that immigrants could not be deported without due process. These vulnerable refugees deserve that basic protection.” The administration says that deportations can be made without hearings if the immigrants in question have missed previously scheduled court dates.
2 Trump Announces End To Fight On Citizenship Question To Census
President Trump has dropped a fight to put a citizenship question on the upcoming 2020 census. This comes after the Supreme Court made a decision last month effectively barring the administration from adding such a question to the census, as it had planned to do. However, the President will issue an executive order that will require federal agencies to give the Commerce Department all the records they have that are related to how many citizens and non-citizens are living in the United States. Attorney General William Barr said the question will not be asked on the census, acknowledging that a recent Supreme Court ruling had made doing so difficult, if not impossible. “We’re not going to jeopardize our ability to carry out the census,” Barr said. Trump defended his original plan to have the question asked, and claimed that his order directing agencies to share citizenship data would make the actual count of non-citizen “far more accurate” than it would have been if the question was on the census.
3 Twitter Experiences World Wide Outage
The great Twitter blackout of 2019 is over. Twitter users worldwide were unable to access the platform for over an hour yesterday. People were not able to access their accounts via mobile or web platforms. On the web, users saw an error message that said, “Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing —we’re going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.” An error message in the Twitter app said, “Tweets aren’t loading right now.” Twitter began experiencing issues around 2:46 p.m. ET yesterday with the biggest user-reported technical problems coming from Western Europe and the U.S. Service appeared to begin to be restored about an hour later, at around 3:45 p.m. ET. This is yet another string of technical problems with popular social media platforms over the last few weeks. Instagram had just had a technical glitch last week that prevented Instagram users worldwide. Facebook and WhatsApp users had also had an issue with sharing or accessing photos and videos for much of a day.Twitter was out of commission just as President Trump was hosting a social-media summit at the White House yesterday afternoon.