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Scoop: Dream Act Petition One Signature Away From Forcing a House Vote

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Scoop: Dream Act Petition One Signature Away From Forcing a House Vote Discharge Petition No. 25 has reached 217 signatures on the American Dream and Promise Act. The 218th has to be a Republican. Pablo ManrĆ­quez Sep 2 WASHINGTON — They sign it by hand. That is the thing about a discharge petition that nobody outside this building ever remembers: there is no proxy, no app, no staffer sent down in a member’s place. You walk to the well of the House, you take the pen, and you write your name in a clerk’s book where anybody in America can go read it. Two hundred seventeen members have now done that on Discharge Petition No. 25 , Migrant Insider has learned. One more name and the American Dream and Promise Act gets a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives, and Speaker Mike Johnson can do nothing about it but watch. The petition belongs to Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas. The bill is H.R. 1414 . It would keep some undocumented people from being deported and give others a way to adj...

BREAKING: DHS Loses Bid to Dodge Blame for Dangerous Conditions at Adelanto

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  BREAKING: DHS Loses Bid to Dodge Blame for Dangerous Conditions at Adelanto A three-judge panel unanimously rejected the government’s bid to pause a court order over dangerous conditions at Adelanto — and taxpayers, not GEO, are the ones on the hook for what happens next. Pablo ManrĆ­quez Aug 20 WASHINGTON — Three federal judges told the Trump administration Thursday what it didn’t want to hear: contracting out a detention center doesn’t contract out the Constitution. A Ninth Circuit panel — Judges Margaret McKeown, Michelle Friedland and Eric Miller — unanimously denied the government’s emergency motion to stay a preliminary injunction over conditions at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California’s High Desert, lifting the administrative pause it had granted while it considered the case. The order was first flagged Thursday by POLITICO’s ace courts reporter Kyle Cheney. The government’s core argument was simple: don’t blame us, blame GEO Group , the private prison compa...

EXCLUSIVE: Two DHS Sources Confirm to Migrant Insider — The ICE Agent Who Pointed His Gun at a U.S. Citizen in Vir… REPUBLICANS ARE SILENT!

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                   LET'S REMEMBER THAT REPUBLICANS ALONE GENEROUSLY FUNDED                     ICE GESTAPO THUGS AND REFUSED TO INCLUDE ANY SAFE GUARDS                      THAT DEMOCRATS PROPOSED!                     REPUBLICANS ARE SILENT AND REFUSE TO CONDEMN TRUMP'S                     ICE GESTAPO THUGS....OR THE LIES!                        Watch now   EXCLUSIVE: Two DHS Sources Confirm to Migrant Insider — The ICE Agent Who Pointed His Gun at a U.S. Citizen in Virginia Is Martin Lagunas The Chicago-based agent was already identified on social media and by Unraveled Press. Now, two Department of Homeland Security sourc...

Ask the Editor in Chief: Maine Senate Updates, Mitch McConnell's Mystery, Trump's Pillow Guy Plug + More — 7/20/26

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    Watch now   Ask the Editor in Chief: Maine Senate Updates, Mitch McConnell's Mystery, Trump's Pillow Guy Plug + More — 7/20/26 Ron Filipkowski and Pablo ManrĆ­quez tackle the week's biggest questions from Meidas+ subscribers Ron Filipkowski , Pablo ManrĆ­quez , and MeidasTouch Network Jul 21 ∙ Another week, another round of subscriber questions put directly to MeidasTouch Editor-in-Chief Ron Filipkowski, with DC correspondent Pablo ManrĆ­quez running the show. Thank you to all our subscribers who submitted questions as comments to Ron’s daily bulletin! Read below for a full recap of this episode and watch above! Let’s dive in. Is Troy Jackson Maine’s best shot at unseating Susan Collins? The first question dug into the chaotic aftermath of Graham Platner’s implosion and whether Troy Jackson is really the answer for Maine Democrats. Filipkowski explained his frustration with how the nominating process played out. What was supposed to be a thoughtful, delegate-driven conve...