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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah, and Harris's endorsement of that horrifying border security bill is a pretty big deal too. Say what you will about these candidates approaches to immigration but there's no way you can say they're not talking about it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Campaigners say further physical and mental harm could be inflicted under Labour home secretary Yvette Cooper’s plan to increase deportations to 2018 levels – with a goal to remove thousands of migrants and refused asylum seekers by the end of the year.

I hate how many people seem to be fighting for this title

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Speaking to CBS, DeWine said: “This is something that came up on the internet, and the internet can be quite crazy sometimes.

It didn't just come up "on the internet" you cowardly shit stain, it came out of the mouth of the presidential candidate you said you'd be voting for

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, it really sucks how both sides have decided to go all in on this racist bullshit recently instead of standing up for asylum rights when global climate change is only going to be making them more vital

Even Harris’s immigration policies reflect this shift in rhetoric. Her focus on border enforcement and deterrence over more comprehensive immigration reform echoes Trump’s approach to securitize the border. Her controversial comments during a 2021 trip to Guatemala, where she told migrants, “do not come,” reinforced narratives that criminalize migration rather than address its root causes.

Harris’s campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, has said if elected, she would continue Joe Biden’s crackdown on asylum claims. Harris has also promised to revive a border security deal that collapsed in Congress earlier this year after Trump told Republicans to reject it. If passed, the legislation would have implemented permanent restrictions of asylum.

 

It’s a high-stakes job: Two- or three-member board panels determine the fates of thousands of incarcerated people every year. They decide cases at a rapid pace, historically spending mere minutes on each one.

And there aren’t enough commissioners. For at least a decade, the board has been several down from its full capacity of 19, according to available state reports. As a result, each commissioner hears, conservatively, nearly 1,000 release cases annually — on top of hundreds of other types of administrative meetings — according to the limited available data. Parole commissioners in most other states have far smaller caseloads.

As part of her first State of the State policy agenda in 2022, Hochul promised to fully staff the board. Her efforts have resulted in one mishap after another.

Three of Hochul’s seven known parole board nominations have crashed and burned. One of her picks didn’t make it through the confirmation process after state senators, who vote to confirm or reject the governor’s nominees, grilled him over his role in violent protest crackdowns during his time as a top police official. After that, Hochul tapped Stradford — a local bureaucrat and failed politician — at the legislative schedule’s last minute, giving senators mere hours to vet him. Later, around the time of Stradford’s ouster, Hochul nominated another candidate — only to have senators dismiss him because they surmised that she had nominated him as a political favor.

In the aftermath of the nomination chaos, most of which has not been previously reported, the Board of Parole remains understaffed. What’s more, 11 of the parole board’s 16 current members are serving on expired terms — so-called zombie commissioners — including three whose terms expired over five years ago. Hochul hasn’t sought to renominate or replace them.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240912120436/https://nysfocus.com/2024/09/10/hochul-parole-board-new-york

 

Earl Gage was a helpful witness for the state in its prosecution of Victor Malavet — the first person brought to trial on criminal charges in the massive child abuse scandal within New Hampshire’s youth detention system.

Malavet is accused of repeatedly raping a 16-year-old girl in 2001 while he worked as a counselor at the Youth Detention Services Unit (YDSU) in Concord, a now defunct facility for children in state custody.

Gage was a police officer who investigated Malavet in 2002, and who also worked overtime shifts as a counselor at another state-run youth detention center in Manchester.

On the witness stand, Gage implied Malavet got away with a crime.

Asked by a prosecutor if he had recommended criminal charges against Malavet back in 2002, Gage testified, “Unfortunately, at that point I could not,” before being cut off by a defense attorney’s objection.

The Malavet trial ended in a hung jury the following the week, putting more scrutiny on the attorney general’s criminal investigation into the historic flood of child abuse allegations, which has so far yielded no convictions five years after it began.

But what escaped scrutiny — or even mention — during Malavet’s trial was the fact that Gage is himself accused of repeatedly raping a child in his role at the former Youth Development Center (YDC) in Manchester.

The revelation, first reported here, highlights the sprawling nature of the YDC abuse scandal, where hundreds of former state employees have been implicated by nearly 1,300 alleged victims, and where parallel civil and criminal efforts at accountability have generated millions of pages of discovery. The allegations range from severe physical and sexual abuse to forcing children to endure long periods of isolation and preventing them from attending school.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240912120327/https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2024-09-10/in-prosecuting-alleged-child-abuser-nh-called-witness-who-faces-his-own-accusations

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Close, but she's not being sued, she's actually being criminally prosecuted on six felony charges

Isn't that fucking special.

In-fucking-deed it is

What are they going to do about the bad cops?

They all already got a variety of punishments (generally not harsh enough imo, but their conduct runs all the way from rigging an intramural athletic competition to driving drunk with a loaded firearm, so it's a bit of a complicated picture and worth reading the full article for those details). She was looking them up after the fact so the prosecutor's office she works for now (Los Angeles county) didn't call on them to testify in court (or, if they had to call them for whatever reason, so her office knew to let defense attorneys know about this as theoretically required under the Brady opinion (but exactly what things are Brady material and what can be ignored is something attorneys will be fighting over until the end of time and something I believe LA county and the CA attorney general have argued over in recent history)).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

When you are charged as a juvenile your records are expunged upon turning 18

A lot of people think this but it isn't true. In Georgia (and most other states) you have to ask a judge to expunge your record and they have to give the prosecutor's office an opportunity to respond before the judge can decide if the person with the juvenile record has been rehabilitated and their record should be expunged. There's nothing automatic about the process.

 

The allegations at the center of the case against [D.A. advisor] Teran date to 2018, when she worked as a constitutional policing advisor for then-Sheriff Jim McDonnell. Her usual duties included accessing confidential deputy records and internal affairs investigations.

A few years after leaving the Sheriff’s Department, Teran joined the district attorney’s office. While there, in April 2021, she sent 33 names and a few dozen related court records to a subordinate to evaluate for possible inclusion in either of two internal databases prosecutors use to track officers with histories of dishonesty and other misconduct.

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The state Department of Justice alleged several of the names Teran sent to her subordinate to consider including in D.A. databases were those of deputies whose files she had accessed while working at the Sheriff’s Department years earlier.

However, testimony during the preliminary hearing last month showed she did not download the information from the Sheriff’s Department personnel file system. In most cases she learned of the alleged misconduct when co-workers emailed her copies of court records from lawsuits filed by deputies hoping to overturn the department’s discipline against them.

But after searching news articles and public records requests, state investigators said they found that 11 of the names hadn’t been mentioned in public records or major media outlets. Thus, prosecutors said Teran wouldn’t have been able to identify the deputies, or know to look for their court records, were it not for her special access while working at the Sheriff’s Department.

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But the redacted documents already made public contain distinctive notes and markings, as well as identifying dates and apparent redaction oversights, which make it possible to match them to public court records containing the deputies’ names.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240911120231/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-09/spotty-redactions-reveal-hidden-names-of-deputies-at-center-of-high-profile-case-against-da-advisor

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 days ago (1 children)

As the home prices go down, the probability that you'll be able to find decent healthcare, education, and basically any businesses that consistently stay open outside of 9-5 weekdays goes with them

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago

I hope you procrastinate as much as possible

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That sounds more like how people have always used social media (e.g. bragging about any accomplishments they can, hiding any difficulties they're going through, etc.) and how US based marketers have always used American Dream bullshit to pressure people into spending themselves into debt than any kind of coordinated foreign disinfo campaign to me

Beyond that, the fact that "people can come to the US and find prosperity and stability" is a lie seems to be the bigger underlying problem here

 

After several days of camping on the street and relieving herself outside, Herrera began to itch uncontrollably with an infection. She worried: Would it imperil her baby?

She was seeing doctors and social workers at a Denver hospital where she planned to give birth because they served everyone, even those without insurance. They were alarmed their pregnant patient was now sleeping outside in the cold.

Days after she was forced to leave the Microtel, Denver paused its policy and allowed homeless immigrants to stay in its shelters through the winter. Denver officials say they visited encampments to urge homeless migrants to come back inside. But they didn’t venture outside the city limits to Aurora.

As Colorado’s third-largest city, Aurora, on Denver’s eastern edge, is a place where officials have turned down requests to help migrants. In February, the Aurora City Council passed a resolution telling other cities and nonprofits not to bring migrants into the community because it “does not currently have the financial capacity to fund new services related to this crisis.” Yet still they come, because of its lower cost of living and Spanish-speaking community.

In fact, former President Donald Trump last week called attention to the city, suggesting a Venezuelan gang had taken over an apartment complex. Authorities say that hasn’t happened.

The doctors treated Herrera’s yeast infection and urged her to sleep at the hospital. It wouldn’t cost anything, they assured her, just as her birth would be covered by emergency Medicaid, a program that extends the health care benefits for poor American families to unauthorized immigrants for labor and delivery.

Herrera refused.

“How,” she asked, “could I sleep in a warm place when my son is cold on the street?”

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240910115616/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m-living-lie-streets-colorado-city-pregnant-migrants-struggle-survive-rcna170164

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

tl;dr, the local racists get big mad and protest a bit while the reasonable make arrangements and gather supplies, and then the migrants settle in and life moves on like it was all never any big deal to begin with (because it wasn't)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Then it should be a very simple matter for her campaign to put out a statement expressing her support for Khan and Gensler

The Harris campaign didn’t provide a comment for this story.

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