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The Uniting for Ukraine program and other new initiatives may open the door to a broader role for private citizens in sponsoring refugees.

Reason

Biden has not ruled out firing embattled DHS inspector general amid Secret Service texts scandal

Sources tell The Independent that White House officials are reviewing newly discovered information about DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari’s handling of an investigation into missing Secret Service text messages

The Independent UK

Department of Homeland Security will stop wiping phones after controversy over missing Jan 6 texts

Deepening scandal envelops DHS, Secret Service over Jan 6 texts

The Independent UK

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Lack of immigration guidance set to ripple through enforcement - Roll Call

Former DHS officials warn that the lack of nationwide immigration guidance could force some inconsistent decision-making across the country.

Roll Call

Pa. continues to fund antiabortion organization in new budget

As it’s done for years, the state of Pennsylvania approved funding in the budget it passed last month to support the antiabortion movement, some of it with money diverted from cash assistance for people in poverty.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

LAPD confronted federal officials after agents escalated tensions at LA abortion protest

LOS ANGELES — A confrontation between U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents and a group of abortion rights protesters in downtown Los Angeles in May prompted L.A. police officials to call a meeting a week later to discuss how federal officers should respond at street protests, according to emails obtained…

Los Angeles Times

House panels: DHS officials interfered in effort to get lost Secret Service texts

After the inspector general’s office requested the Secret Service’s January 6 communications, the effort was shut down

The Guardian - US

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Dems accuse DHS IG of Jan. 6 "cover-up"

DHS inspector general Joseph Cuffari's staff “may have taken steps to cover up the extent of missing records"

Salon

Will Bunch: Are missing Homeland Security texts hiding the biggest secret of Jan. 6?

You've probably heard the expression that the cover-up is always worse than the crime — a notion that was cemented by the mother of all U.S. political scandals, Watergate. Think about it — only five burglars were nabbed by D.C. cops inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

House lawmakers seek to question DHS watchdog staff on missing Secret Service texts

WASHINGTON — Leaders of two House panels want the Homeland Security Department’s Office of Inspector General to answer questions about what they say are possible attempts to cover up the loss of Secret Service texts tied to the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Tribune News Service

Dems allege cover-up on Secret Service texts, demand records

Top congressional Democrats have requested sit-down interviews and internal documents from the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general

The Independent UK

Failed backup plan? Why have so many Jan. 6 records gone missing?

What was in the all these missing records that was worse than weathering criticism over their disappearance?

Chicago Sun-Times

Homeland Security watchdog halted text retrieval effort

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security’s chief watchdog halted efforts to try to retrieve lost Secret Service text messages from other department phones, The Washington Post reported.

Tribune News Service

Ex-Trump official Chad Wolf spoke to Jan 6 committee before revelation about missing texts: report

Trump pushed DHS officials to challenge election integrity

The Independent UK

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Mic

Even more Jan. 6 text messages are mysteriously missing

New reporting indicates texts from key Homeland Security officials were lost in a “reset” of government phones.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: The Pentagon can’t counter white supremacy

After the Jan. 6 insurrection, a CBS News analysis found that at least 81 of the more than 700 individuals charged in relation to the attack were current and former armed service members. In response, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin committed to addressing extremism within military ranks. But the Biden…

WEKU

House Democrats call for a new inspector general in Secret Service text investigation

Reps. Bennie Thompson and Carolyn Maloney write in a letter that the IG's actions "cast serious doubt on his independence and his ability to effectively conduct such an important investigation."

The Independent UK

Jan 6 panel member Raskin skeptical of Secret Service’s text claims: ‘I don’t buy that for one minute’

‘There was a pre-planned migration of the phones that just happened to be on the same day as the first violent insurrection in American history?’ Rep Jamie Raskin asked

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Texas Observer

Migrant Deaths Are a Feature—Not a Bug—of U.S. Immigration Policy

Governor Greg Abbott says he can make coming to the U.S. more miserable than being smuggled in the back of a tractor-trailer.

The Independent UK

Deleted text messages from Jan 6 found on 10 Secret Service staff phones, report says

Capitol riot committee and federal agency investigating missing messages

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Secret Service must come clean on missing texts

A time-honored Washington axiom holds that one should never attribute to scandal what could be explained by garden-variety incompetence. In the case of the Secret Service’s mysteriously missing text messages, however, mere ineptitude doesn’t quite fit the facts.

Salon

IG launches criminal probe into SS texts

CNN reports on a new letter to Secret Service Director James Murray

Axios

DHS watchdog launches criminal investigation into deleted Secret Service texts

The messages may have contained evidence about key events related to the Capitol insurrection.

The Independent UK

Secret Service’s deletion of Jan 6 texts is under ‘criminal investigation’, DHS reveals

Agency was only able to hand over one text message from 24 personnel

Roll Call

Supreme Court will decide case over immigration priorities - Roll Call

The high court will decide if DHS followed law when it told immigration agents to focus on immigrants with more serious criminal convictions.

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