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State policies and political campaigns create severe community fallout
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TL;DR
- After rebuilding from a flood, Ingram's police enrolled in ICE's 287(g) program and handed over the equivalent of 10% of the Texas town within a year.
- An organization that championed Texas' sweeping anti-abortion law is now being sued under it, in a case that could expose limits to the measure.
- A national survey revealed that Americans holding the most negative views of women were the strongest supporters of bans on transgender athletes in sports.
- Life aboard a ship in the untapped Rosebank oil field remains uncertain as it sits at the centre of an ongoing political storm.
- An analysis of nearly 200 X posts revealed rapid spread of anti-trans talking points against Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico after his primary win in Texas.
- The DOE spent nearly $12 million fighting claims from sick Hanford cleanup workers, eight years after a 2018 Washington state law was enacted to help them.
From the curator
Government programs and political actions frequently generate harsh consequences for the people living under them. ProPublica's 32 min read article by Francesca D’Annunzio, McKenzie Funk, and Kirsten Luce reports that after Ingram, Texas, enrolled its police department in an ICE deportation program following a flood, officers handed over the equivalent of 10% of the town within a year. Meanwhile, Lizz Giordano and Brandon Block's 15 min read article for ProPublica shows that the DOE spent nearly $12 million fighting to deny benefits to sick workers at the Hanford nuclear weapons site, despite a 2018 Washington state law meant to help them.
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