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A Noncitizen Says She Was Told She Could Vote. Then Customs Detained Her at the Airport and Threatened to Deport Her.

The case, which hasn’t previously been reported, marks a new escalation in the Trump administration’s efforts to find and prosecute instances of noncitizen voting, despite evidence that it is rare.

3 Months Ago: “Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes.

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He Was Fired for Sexually Harassing Students. California Allowed Him to Keep Teaching Anyway.

Math teacher Jason Agan was deemed “unfit to teach.” But the finding was never made public. This is how the state allowed him — and dozens of other educators found to have committed sexual harassment or misconduct — to keep their credentials.

Help Us Report: Teacher Misconduct in California

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A U.S. Senate Candidate Says Foreign Truckers Are Making America’s Roads Unsafe. His Own Truckers Have Caused Harm.

Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driver’s licenses from noncitizens. Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that killed five people and injured more than 50 people.

Despite Court Order, NYPD Failed to Properly Monitor Stop-and-Frisks by Aggressive Unit

The department didn’t audit thousands of stops made by its Community Response Team, which has a history of unconstitutional policing and has drawn hundreds of civilian complaints. ProPublica previously found the unit sidestepped oversight.

1 Year Ago: How Eric Adams Has Backed a Secretive NYPD Unit Ridden With Abuses

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Puerto Rico Lawmakers Call for Investigation Into Alleged Drugs-for-Votes Scheme After ProPublica Report

One said the territory’s House has “an inescapable duty to investigate” after the ProPublica report revealed how federal prosecutors had been told to stop looking into whether the scheme was linked to the island’s newly elected governor.

1 Week Ago: Prosecutors Had a Drugs-for-Votes Scheme “Locked Up.” Under Trump, They Were Told Not to Pursue Charges.

1 Month Ago: Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration

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