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“Families consistently report their children are hungry, exhausted, perpetually sick, and despondent from the conditions of confinement.” The Trump administration has put children in immigration detention at ten times the daily rate of the last year of the Biden administration, according to government data obtained by the Deportation Data Project. ICE officials have detained 6,200 children since the start of the second Trump term, often in conditions that advocates assert can lead to “an incredible amount of trauma.” TMP’s Anna Flagg and Shannon Heffernan have our story. The Marshall Project
Blossoming with a second chance. Mario Monteiro learned to garden decades ago as a teenager inside Rhode Island’s maximum-security prison. He spent 23 winters behind bars before being released in 2024 and now plants trees across the state as part of a job he could hardly have imagined when he was first convicted and sentenced. He tries to give back to the communities he serves, encouraging the children who watch him do his work to pick up a shovel and join in. “Every human who came to me with their watering cans — whether in the form of phone calls, dreams or shovels — helped me blossom,” writes Monteiro in the latest installment of our Life Inside series. The Marshall Project
Immigration nation. On Friday, a federal judge in California ruled that Border Patrol agents have continued to make illegal stops and arrests after she ordered them to halt. The Associated Press Hundreds of people held in immigration detention in Adams County, Mississippi, have been waiting for months for a judge to rule on their release petitions. Mississippi Today ICE agents are still arresting U.S. citizens at high rates, despite promises from administration officials that immigration raids would be more targeted. The Washington Post Just in time for Easter Sunday: “You’re deporting the future of American Christianity,” said a Latino leader of an evangelical church that supported Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential bid. NBC News
Bye bye Bondi. Trump ally Todd Blanche, temporary head of the Justice Department, is the president’s former criminal defense lawyer and he still acts like it. Politico Former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi may still have to testify on Capitol Hill about the Justice Department’s mishandling of the Epstein files. Politico Bondi’s contentious tenure was largely defined by her role in the Epstein story. The Associated Press Her sudden departure last week was noted with scorn from some current DOJ staffers. MS Now Jeanine Pirro, the Trump ally installed as U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. is among the candidates to replace Bondi as the next Attorney General, despite her terrible track record so far. New York Magazine
What “community safety” now means in New York City. Deputy Mayor Renita Francois has been named the first head of the city’s new Office of Community Safety. Its budget for 2026 will be $260 million, or roughly one quarter of what Mayor Zohran Mamdani asked for during his historic campaign. “If you want to go fast, go alone,” Francois told TMP’s Wilbert L. Cooper in the latest edition of our Closing Argument newsletter. “And if you want to go far, go together. So of course, we are definitely going to be doing the work to lay solid partnerships across the city, because safety really is inclusive.” The Marshall Project
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