“We are reviewing and investigating these submissions as they come in and will work with the AG's Office to release others when they are ready,” a spokesperson for Governor Maura Healey said.
David Venturella is expected to be the next acting director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed to NPR on Tuesday. Venturella most recently worked for the department overseeing contracts between ICE and various detention facilities. He previously worked for ICE during the Obama and George W. Bush administrations. He left the agency in 2012 to work for Geo Group, a private prison company that contracts with the federal government, including for immigration detention. Venturella was at Geo Group for a little over a decade.
Rail workers in Texas found six people dead inside a boxcar at a yard close to the Mexican border on Sunday afternoon, officials said. The discovery was made by a Union Pacific employee inspecting the stopped train at the yard in Laredo before it continued its journey north, a spokesperson for the Laredo police department said, citing the railroad freight company. Authorities are working to establish a cause of death for the six, who were found at about 2.30pm local time on an afternoon when temperatures climbed above 90F (32C). Nobody was found alive in the boxcar, the spokesperson said.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has refuted that account, saying in an email to SFGATE on Thursday that CBP agents raided eight cruise ships between April 23 and 27, not just the Disney ship in San Diego, and that as a result of those raids, they interviewed 28 people and detained 27 of them on suspicion of handling or viewing child pornography.
"If a state law directly regulates the conduct of the United States, it is void irrespective of whether the regulated activities are essential to federal functions or operations, and irrespective of the degree to which the state law interferes with federal functions or operations."