Crackdown on Immigrants Who Use Public Benefits Takes Effect

https://ktla.com/2020/02/24/crackdown-on-immigrants-who-use-public-benefits-takes-effect/

Pastor Antonio Velasquez says that "before the Trump administration announced a crackdown on immigrants using government social services, people lined up before sunrise outside a state office in a largely Latino Phoenix neighborhood to sign up for food stamps and Medicaid.

No more."

"With new rules taking effect Monday that disqualify more people from green cards if they use government benefits, droves of immigrants, including citizens and legal residents, have dropped social services they or their children may be entitled to out of fear they will be kicked out of the U.S., said Velazquez and other advocates."

US appeals court upholds Trump rules involving abortions

https://www.10news.com/news/national/us-appeals-court-upholds-trump-rules-involving-abortions

"In a victory for the Trump administration, a U.S. appeals court on Monday upheld rules that bar taxpayer-funded family-planning clinics from referring women for abortions.

The 7-4 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned decisions issued by judges in Washington, Oregon and California. The court had already allowed the administration’s changes to start taking effect while the government appealed those rulings."

"The changes ban taxpayer-funded clinics in the Title X program for low-income women from making abortion referrals, a restriction opponents characterize as a “gag rule.”

Beginning March 4, the rules will also prohibit clinics that receive federal money from sharing office space with abortion providers, which critics said would force many Title X providers to find new locations, undergo expensive remodels or shut down — further reducing access to the program.

Title X patients receive affordable birth control, reproductive care and other care through the program, including breast and cervical cancer screenings and HIV testing. "

Cartels target police following arrests of leaders

https://www.kron4.com/news/cartels-target-police-following-arrests-of-leaders/

"EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — Police in Juarez, Mexico remain on high alert following a series of retaliatory attacks from drug gangs angry at the capture of their leaders.

On Sunday, four police officers in Juarez and two members of Chihuahua Gov. Javier Corral’s personal guard in the state capital came under fire from drug traffickers. The previous Friday, six gang members who shot an officer in Juarez were killed when police and Mexico’s National Guard stormed the house in which they were hiding.

Chihuahua state officials characterized the attacks as “intimidation tactics” from the Sinaloa cartel and its rival La Linea drug trafficking organization.

“They mean to intimidate us,” Corral said at a news conference on Monday in Juarez. “But we are committed to confronting the enemies of peace. … We should not and will not negotiate with criminals.”

Chihuahua Attorney General Cesar Augusto Peniche said the attacks come on the heels of the arrest of the brother of Sinaloa cartel proxy leader Francisco “El Jaguar” Arvizu Marquez and the arrest of six members of the La Linea drug trafficking organization."