https://www.rt.com/on-air/446146-students-protest-paris-fees/
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers reportedly arrested more than 150 undocumented adults who came forward as potential adult sponsors for migrant children detained by U.S. authorities between July and November.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that more than 100 of the roughly 170 migrant adults arrested in that time period had no criminal record, another indication that the Trump administration has backed away from its previously stated mission to target undocumented immigrants with criminal convictions.
The Chronicle reports that many of the arrests were made using information uncovered in background checks for potential sponsors, which was then utilized against those potential sponsors seeking to remove young family members from housing via the Department of Health and Human Services.
Democrats have criticized the practice, saying it will result in children being unable to be removed from HHS custody.
“It’s outrageous,” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) told the Chronicle. “I don’t know if this is intended or unintended, but a natural consequence of this is that these children will have nowhere to go.”
ICE reportedly began the practice of fingerprinting potential sponsors and conducting background checks on other adults in sponsor households earlier this year. Previous administrations did not consider legal status of a sponsor before releasing children into adult family members' custody.
The Trump administration faced heavy criticism earlier this year over the administration's family separation policy, which led to hundreds of migrant children being detained for crossing the border illegally following a mandate from the Justice Department stating that all adults who cross the border illegally must be prosecuted.
https://thehill.com/latino/420735-ice-arrested-more-than-150-potential-sponsors-to-undocumented-children
More damage control
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/hateful-conspiracies-thrive-on-youtube-despite-pledge-to-clean-up-problematic-videos/2018/12/10/625730a8-f3f8-11e8-9240-e8028a62c722_story.html?utm_term=.88fb8eba433d
An activist who attends congressional hearings dressed as the mustachioed Monopoly mascot returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to attend a hearing with Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Ian Madrigal sat a few rows behind Pichai during the House Judiciary Committee hearing.
.@Google CEO @SundarPichai testifies on Data Collection before @HouseJudiciary @housejuddems – LIVE on C-SPAN3 https://t.co/w6Qhg7xb5b pic.twitter.com/QnYS2l7BUj
— CSPAN (@cspan) December 11, 2018
Madrigal, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, said in an emailed statement that their presence as Rich Uncle Pennybags is meant to draw attention to Google's lobbying efforts in Congress, as well as the search engine giant's access to customer data.
"Google spent $18 million lobbying politicians in 2017 – more than any other company," Madrigal said. "In return, Congress has abandoned its oversight role and allowed Google to wield monopoly power over every person who uses the internet."
“We have no say in how Google uses even our most personal data, and the only way to opt out is to boycott the internet itself," Madrigal added. "We can't rely on tech giants to self-regulate. It is past time for Congress to step in and do its job.”
Google gets trolled by #MonopolyMan pic.twitter.com/SORITzXeyt
— MAJOR STORM (@MAJORSTORM1) December 11, 2018
Madrigal first appeared at the Senate Banking Committee’s 2017 hearing on the massive Equifax data breach, sitting directly behind Equifax CEO Richard Smith and occasionally making a show of crinkling dollar bills.
Throughout Smith's hearing, Madrigal adjusted their monocle, wiped their face with a larger-than-life hundred-dollar bill and finally chased the consumer credit reporting firm's chief into an elevator with a bag of money.
Pichai's hearing on Tuesday marks the first time the Google CEO has publicly testified before a congressional committee. He is likely to face questions about allegations of bias against conservatives, data security, and the company's reported work on a censored Chinese search engine.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/420749-monopoly-man-returns-for-google-ceo-hearing