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ICE accuses DHS inspector general of staging photograph in critical report on migrant facility
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) accused the Division of Homeland Safety’s (DHS) inspector common of getting staged {a photograph} which the watchdog used to point out allegedly poor circumstances at a New Mexico migrant facility — because it railed in opposition to the “integrity” of the report.
The report discovered that the Torrance County Detention Facility in Estancia, New Mexico, which is privately run underneath contract for ICE, was unsafe and unsanitary — and it took the weird step of recommending the migrants there be transferred to totally different amenities.
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“We’ve got decided that ICE should take fast steps to deal with the essential facility staffing shortages and unsanitary residing circumstances which have led to well being and security dangers for detainees at Torrance,” it stated.
The Torrance County Detention Facility is proven Nov. 11, 2000, in Estancia, N.M. A authorities watchdog has discovered unsanitary and unsafe circumstances on the New Mexico jail used to carry migrants and says it must be instantly closed. (AP Picture/Matt York, File)
It described an understaffed facility with unsanitary circumstances together with clogged bogs, non-working sinks. ICE ought to “instantly relocate” everybody held there, the report stated.
However the enforcement company railed in opposition to the report, with appearing chief of workers Jason Houser writing in a proper response that the company had “severe considerations in regards to the accuracy and integrity of this report” and whether or not it meets authorities requirements.
“In plenty of situations, it seems OIG has falsified or mischaracterized proof, and has ignored info introduced to it in an effort to obtain preconceived conclusions,” he wrote.
ICE accused the OIG inspector of “very disconcerting and unprofessional habits” together with making feedback half-hour in that there’s “no method detainees must be housed right here,” suggesting a predetermined final result.
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Moreover, the company pointed to a picture of a detainee holding a cup underneath working water, described as “a detainee ingesting water from Housing Unit Flooring Mop Sink.”
“Nonetheless, the Division has raised to OIG that video surveillance proof signifies that, on the contrary, the photograph was staged by the OIG inspector and at no time, both within the staging of the photograph or throughout the interval the inspector was observing the detainee, did the detainee drink the water.”
Within the report itself, the OIG mentions ICE’s objections, and pushed again particularly on the {photograph}, saying inspectors had noticed the detainee utilizing the tap, however didn’t {photograph} him in time.
United States Secretary of Homeland Safety Alejandro Mayorkas appears on throughout a convention as a part of the Excessive Degree Safety Dialogue at SRE Constructing on October 08, 2021 in Mexico Metropolis, Mexico. (Picture by Hector Vivas/Getty Pictures)
“Subsequently OIG inspectors requested him to display how he crammed the cup to permit for a photograph to doc the difficulty,” the report stated. “The photograph was not staged however slightly a recreation of what the crew had noticed simply moments prior.”
The report famous that the caption for the {photograph} had since been revised.
The corporate that runs the ability, CoreCivic, has been equally essential of the report, together with the allegedly staged photograph.
The corporate additionally claimed in a letter to ICE that photos of clogged sinks and bogs had been taken from vacant items, whereas saying the ability was appropriately staffed and that depictions of “flooding” had been merely detainees cleansing their residing areas. The letter describes the statements within the report as “egregious and defamatory.”
Secretary of Homeland Safety Alejandro Mayorkas speaks throughout a information convention at The Nationwide Press Membership in Washington, on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. (AP Picture/Jose Luis Magana)
In an e-mail to Fox Information Digital, a spokesperson accused the DHS inspectors of appearing “in a deeply unethical method, together with misrepresenting proof to negatively painting the ability.”
“This deliberate effort to falsely painting our firm and this facility in a damaging gentle is much more disturbing as a result of it was performed underneath the guise of legit oversight. We’re asking for an instantaneous evaluate of the conduct of the inspectors,” ICE spokesperson Ryan Gustin stated.
The report comes after DHS ended contracts in Could with two detention amenities in Georgia and Massachusetts over circumstances. At the moment, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated in a memo to appearing ICE Director Tae Johnson that “[w]e is not going to tolerate the mistreatment of people in civil immigration detention or substandard circumstances of detention.”
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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Mike Kennedy advances past crowded GOP primary to secure nomination for open Utah House seat
Mike Kennedy on Tuesday won the Republican nomination for Utah’s 3rd Congressional District to replace outgoing Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, becoming the immediate favorite to win the seat in November.
Kennedy beat fellow Republicans JR Bird, John Dougall, Case Lawrence and Stewart Peay in a packed primary pool for the district. Curtis is vacating his seat to run for U.S. Senate to replace outgoing Sen. Mitt Romney.
Kennedy, a state senator, had won the party’s nomination for the seat in April but faced challenges from other candidates who gathered signatures to be on the ballot. Peay had won the endorsement of Romney, who is also Peay’s wife’s uncle. Kennedy had won the endorsement of Sen. Mike Lee, who said he was needed to “fight against the Uniparty and help get this country back on track.”
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From left, JR Bird, John Dougall, Mike Kennedy, Case Lawrence and Stewart Peay, candidates in the Republican primary for Utah’s 3rd Congressional District, take part in a debate at the Eccles Broadcast Center in Salt Lake City on June 12, 2024. (Spenser Heaps/Deseret News via AP/Pool)
Bird, a mayor, emphasized his experience of running a small town as well as the importance of the energy sector and agriculture, according to the Deseret News.
Dougall, the state auditor, had run as an anti-MAGA candidate and had slammed some GOP legislation, including what he saw as an overly aggressive bill that tasks him with enforcing a ban on transgender-identifying individuals using restrooms that are inconsistent with their sex.
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He has also been deeply critical of former President Trump. On Tuesday on X, he also questioned the “cavalier manner” of any official who swears to uphold the Constitution “then endorses Trump following January 6th.” He has advertised himself as “mainstream, not MAGA.”
At a debate this month, candidates split on the question of military funding to Ukraine as well as whether the federal government should explicitly ban abortion. Peay, Dougall and Case Lawrence – a trampoline park entrepreneur – had called on Congress to keep sending weapons to Ukraine to help it fend off the ongoing Russian invasion.
Bird and Kennedy disagreed, arguing that it was not beneficial to the U.S. to keep funding the Ukrainians, with the two calling for stronger sanctions and the seizure of Russian assets.
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Sen. Mitt Romney (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Kennedy will go on to face Democrat Glenn Wright in the November election, but the Republican is favored to win comfortably in a district that has voted Republican since 1997.
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Elsewhere in the state, Republican Gov. Spencer Cox, a major GOP Trump critic, held off a primary challenge from Phil Lyman, another 2020 election denier who easily won the state party convention.
The Associated Press and Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
California news publishers and Big Tech companies appear to be inching toward compromise on a controversial bill that would require Google and huge social media platforms to pay news outlets for the articles they distribute.
After stalling last year, Assembly Bill 886 cleared a critical hurdle Tuesday when it passed the state Senate Judiciary Committee. Several lawmakers described the legislation as a work in progress aimed at solving a critical problem: The news business is shrinking as technology changes the way people consume information.
“I do believe the marketplace is the best mechanism to regulate industry,” Sen. Tom Umberg (D-Orange), the committee chairman, said during a hearing on the bill.
However, he said, the demise of journalism harms democracy: “Thus, we have an obligation to find a way to support reasonable, credible journalism.”
The legislation, known as the “California Journalism Preservation Act,” would require digital platforms to pay news outlets a fee when they sell advertising alongside news content. It calls for creating a fund that the tech firms pay into, with the money being distributed to news outlets based on the number of journalists they employ. Publishers would have to use 70% of the money they receive to pay journalists in California.
Umberg noted that the bill does not specify an amount for the fund. He said it would be “a very elegant solution” for the parties involved to agree on what amount that should be.
Sen. Henry Stern (D-Calabasas) described talks as being “closer and closer to the place where we could actually land some kind of deal.”
In Canada, Google is paying $74 million annually into a fund for the news industry under a law similar to the one proposed in California.
Jaffer Zaidi, Google’s vice president of global news partnerships, testified against the California proposal during a hearing in which news executives from across the state lined up to express support for the bill, while tech industry lobbyists lined up in opposition. The bill is sponsored by the California News Publishers Assn., of which the Los Angeles Times is a member.
“The bill would … break the fundamental and foundational principles of the open internet, forcing platforms to pay publishers for sending valuable free traffic to them,” Zaidi said.
“It puts the full burden of support on one or two companies, while shielding many other large platforms who also link to news from California publishers.”
He said Google had shared a proposal for a different way to support journalism “through targeted programs” that would be funded by more companies than just the very largest platforms. The current version of the bill would apply only to Google and Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook.
“We hope this can serve as a basis for a workable path forward together,” Zaidi said. “We remain committed to being here and constructively working towards an outcome.”
The bill’s author, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), said she is “aggressively trying to engage” with companies that oppose the bill in the hopes that the sparring sides can reach an agreement that will allow the news industry to thrive.
“At the end of the day, I want the best solution to the problem,” Wicks said.
She closed the hearing by talking about the role journalism has played in exposing problems that lawmakers wind up addressing in the Capitol, such as crafting new laws to extend the statute of limitations for sexual abuse lawsuits after The Times’ investigation revealed a pattern of allegations against former USC gynecologist George Tyndall.
The bill now advances to the Senate Appropriations Committee. It will go to Gov. Gavin Newsom if it clears both houses of the Legislature by Aug. 31.
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Judge Juan Merchan has partially lifted the gag order he imposed against former President Trump – weeks after the jury found him guilty on all counts.
Trump and his legal team have been fighting the gag order since it was imposed upon him at the start of the trial, but had ramped up their efforts when it concluded last month. The former president and presumptive Republican nominee’s legal team had argued the gag order should be lifted before the June 27 presidential debate.
Merchan’s gag order barred Trump from making or directing others to make public statements about witnesses with regard to their potential participation or about counsel in the case – other than Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg – or about court staff, DA staff or family members of staff.
Merchan on Tuesday partially lifted the gag order because the trial has concluded.
Trump is now able to speak about protected witnesses and jurors.
Trump is still blocked from commenting about individual prosecutors, court staff and their family members. That portion of the gag order will remain in effect until Trump’s sentencing on July 11.
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