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Trump’s plan to shift IRS criminal investigators away from tax crimes and into immigration enforcement isn’t just a bureaucratic reshuffle
—it’s a direct threat to the deterrence model that underpins the voluntary tax system.
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IRS Shift to Immigration Enforcement Hurts Voluntary Tax System
Opinion: Columnist Andrew Leahey says reassigning IRS agents from tax crimes to immigration signals selective enforcement of the law and could cause a gradual erosion of tax compliance.

Insanity rules in Texas.
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Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport
The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

Jamaica Celebrates 40% Drop in Murders Driven by 94% Increase in Police Tip-Offs https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/jamaica-celebrates-40-drop-in-murders-driven-by-94-increase-in-police-tip-offs/

Jamaica Celebrates 40% Drop in Murders Driven by 94% Increase in Police Tip-Offs
Jamaica is famously violent, but the 2025 total of 673 is the first time since 1993 that total annual murders came in at below 700. 

ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants | Brennan Center for Justice
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/ice-wants-go-after-dissenters-well-immigrants

ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

Titans QB Ward on track to throw at minicamp https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48504522/cam-ward-track-recovery-week-18-shoulder-injury

Why are we having fewer children?
(Interview with Berkay Ozcan, Professor at LSE)
- Couple formation happens at later age
- Women are choosing "careers" and not just "jobs"
- More people choose not to have kids at all
What else is going on? Short anser: we don't know yet
Even in countries providing a lot of support to parents, fertility rate has still declined
Immigration is no silver bullet. It's part of the solution, not th…

Berkay Ozcan: “Immigration is not a silver bullet for falling birth rates”
Berkay Ozcan discusses falling birth rates, whether immigration might provide the answer and what a smaller global population would mean for the environment.

A Texas court interpreter who was arrested by ICE after living in the US for more than 35 years
is speaking out from detention, saying she has been “treated like a criminal”
and fears being deported to a country where she has never been.
Meenu Batra is the only licensed Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu court interpreter in the state,
and has served as an interpreter for hundreds of people in immigration court.
Then, last month, immigration agents at Harlingen internation…

The failure of a hospital chain that provided its own malpractice insurance threatens to leave injured patients with no recourse.  
Absent Oversight: States give little scrutiny to “self-insuring” health care companies. Agency officials say laws allow them to dodge normal safeguards.
Physician, Pay for Thyself: Doctors promised malpractice insurance have discovered they have no coverage for defense expenses and claims. One met with a bankruptcy lawyer.

For-Profit Hospital Chain Never Put Aside Money for Malpractice Insurance to Compensate Injured Patients
Eager to save money, Prospect Medical promised to “self-insure” malpractice claims brought against its doctors and hospitals. The chain’s bankruptcy now threatens to leave hundreds of patients whose claims are pending with no recourse.

The French government is pressing the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to
release the 86-year-old French widow of a military veteran from immigration custody after she was detained earlier this month.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained
Marie-Therese Ross in Alabama on 1 April after she overstayed her 90-day visa, according to DHS.
Ross is now being held at a federal immigration detention facility in Louisiana.
She is among the t…

Trump’s Memphis Crime Task Force Arrested Over 800 Immigrants, Records Show.
💥Only 2% of the Arrests Were for Violent Crimes.
Trump ordered a law enforcement surge in Memphis to end violent crime. -- But crime in the city has fallen steadily since 2023, hitting a 25-year low before the surge began.
The vast majority of the more than 5,200 arrests made by the Memphis Safe Task Force in its first four months have been for nonviolent crimes.
Of the task force’s 800 imm…

Trump’s Memphis Crime Task Force Arrested Over 800 Immigrants, Records Show. Only 2% of the Arrests Were for Violent Crimes.
Businesses closed. Churches emptied. Parents afraid to take kids to school. Advocates say what was supposed to be a crime-fighting effort is keeping a community in fear.