Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has praised President Trump's mass deportation plan, feuded with Democrat-controlled cities over immigrants and deployed the Texas National Guard for protests against ICE.
Detention facilities are seeing more overcrowding and understaffing as the Trump administration ramps up enforcement in the interior of the country, experts said. Unlawful border crossings have plummeted due to the administration’s restrictions. Federal data shows that most current ICE detainees are not accused of crimes beyond civil immigration offenses.
The expansion of ICE detention is “coupled with a dissolution of oversight, a reduction in detention standards, and draconian restrictions on releases,” said Claire Trickler-McNulty, a former senior ICE official during the last three administrations. “That appears destined to lead tomore deaths, medical issues and trauma for detainees.”
Adults picking up or dropping off children from school or making deliveries could bring loaded guns with them in their vehicles, under a bill advancing in the Iowa House.
House File 621 is Republican lawmakers' latest attempt to relax who may bring weapons onto school grounds after similar legislation failed to pass last year. [emphasis added]
The bill says people could have their gun with them on school grounds "while the person is dropping off or picking up from a school a student, staff member or other person having business at the school, or while the person is making a delivery or pickup at the school."
