Mexico Decries ICE Facility Conditions, Vows Action After 14th National Dies
Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said the country will file a brief in support of a federal lawsuit over detention conditions at U.S. ICE centers and raise the matter with the Organization of American States, which promotes human rights. Plus, California alleges the government is still sharing private health data with immigration officials despite a court order to stop.
The government of Mexico on Monday condemned the Trump administration鈥檚 immigration crackdown and voiced concerns about the deaths of its citizens in immigration detention facilities in the United States. Top Mexican officials on Monday, including President Claudia Sheinbaum and diplomats in Los Angeles, vowed to take legal steps to pressure the Trump administration over conditions in detention facilities, including what lawyers and detainees have described as poor drinking water and inadequate medical care. (Arango, Ulloa and McCann, 3/30)
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Florida has the largest population of Haitian TPS holders. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on whether they can continue to live and work in the U.S. will impact the state's caretaking industry. (Guan, 3/31)
Recent changes to federal food aid mean some immigrants have been cut off from grocery assistance payments. Refugees, asylum seekers and human trafficking survivors without a green card are among the noncitizen groups who are no longer eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, under President Donald Trump鈥檚 鈥淥ne Big Beautiful Bill Act.鈥 (Pope, 3/30)
The Trump administration has defied a federal judge鈥檚 order by sharing private information, including street addresses, of millions of low-income Americans with immigration officers who are conducting mass deportations, California and other states say in a court filing. The Trump administration doesn鈥檛 appear to be denying it. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria of San Francisco issued an injunction last August ordering the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to stop providing data about recipients of Medicaid to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. (Egelko, 3/30)
After missing her chair and falling on the tile floor during a child鈥檚 birthday party last October, the 54-year-old Edinburg woman begged: 鈥淒on鈥檛 take me to the hospital.鈥 Her head was throbbing and sharp pain stretched down her back. The woman, an undocumented immigrant, told herself she鈥檇 have to brave through it. Immigration enforcement officials have detained two of her distant family members and deported another to Mexico, and she feared that going to a hospital would make her an easy next target. (Deguzman, Simpson and Langford, 3/30)
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Trump鈥檚 Hunt For Undocumented Medicaid Enrollees Yields Few Violators
Last August, as part of the federal government鈥檚 crackdown on people in the country illegally, the Trump administration sent states the names of hundreds of thousands of Medicaid enrollees with orders to determine whether they were ineligible based on immigration status. But seven months later, findings from five states shared with 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News show that the reviews have uncovered little evidence of a widespread problem. (Galewitz, 3/31)
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Bruce Lesley is incensed at one dimension of the debate about birthright citizenship that he says is being completely overlooked. "It's in the words: 'birth' right citizenship 鈥 this is about babies." Lesley is the president of First Focus on Children, a bipartisan advocacy group for children and families, which submitted an amicus brief for the case Trump v. Barbara to be argued Wednesday, April 1 before the Supreme Court. (Simmons-Duffin, 3/31)
