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SWAT-style immigration raids across the nation, including at a popular San Diego restaurant. A county budget with a multimillion-dollar projected deficit. And looming federal funding cuts. National and local issues drove scores of voters to cast their ballots in person Tuesday,
President Donald Trump’s spending cuts and border security package would inject hundreds of billions of dollars into his mass deportation agenda.
President Trump campaigned on aggressive immigration tactics, and polls before his inauguration captured broad support among Americans for deportations. Since then, Americans have “mixed to negative views” of the administration’s immigration actions, according to an early June survey by the Pew Research Center.
California could lose votes in the electoral college and suffer economic setbacks if President Trump’s immigration crackdown deters people from moving to the state.
Mayoral candidates expect to provide protections, but laws prevent deep involvement. Fears of immigrant backlash have loomed across the nation and in Michigan for years. Yet, concerns cutting deeply into Detroit's immigrant communities have rarely grabbed the immediate attention of those in City Hall,
The Texas Secretary of State’s Office has launched a new election security grant program to strengthen election integrity in all 254 counties in Texas. It is funded through the federal Help America Vote Act.