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Good morning. The Trump administration is deporting Haitian immigrants into total chaos after months of demonizing them with accusations of eating cats, Salon reports; the removals send people directly into violence back home.
As overall homicides fall, domestic violence killings remain alarmingly high, The Guardian finds — non-profits report surging demand for legal help and housing while the administration cuts funding for prevention and response. In Chicago, homicides dropped from 805 in 2021 to 425 last year, yet intimate-partner homicides persist. In Minneapolis, the suspect in a downtown mass shooting that killed two and injured six was facing eviction after a string of incidents including assault and allegedly showing a gun to apartment management, court documents show.
A federal judge blocked Trump's latest attempt to limit birthright citizenship, ruling the issue was settled by the Supreme Court and "no Presidential Executive Order can undo what the Supreme Court has done." Meanwhile, Republican mayors of New York lakeside towns are refusing to implement Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America", Raw Story reports, united in opposition to a widely unpopular rebrand that even the voters who put him in office reject.
One year in, Team Trump's boat strikes against drug trafficking are a failure on multiple fronts: "We cannot bomb our way out of a drug crisis," one key senator said. "We tried that for decades and it failed."