Washington, Jan 20 (IANS) A US senator has introduced a bill that would make it easier for the administration to revoke the citizenship of naturalised Americans who commit serious crimes, large-scale fraud, or have links to terrorist organisations.Republican Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri said the legislation is needed to protect the integrity of American citizenship. The bill is called the Stop Citizenship Abuse and Misrepresentation, or SCAM, Act.Schmitt said recent fraud cases show that the…
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Los Angeles, Jan 17 (IANS) Federal prosecutors are investigating Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for allegedly impeding federal law enforcement operations in the state. The two officials’ rhetoric against the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was approaching a potential federal offense, US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche was quoted as saying.”When the governor or the mayor threatens our officers, when the mayor suggests that he’s encouragin…
Los Angeles, Jan 17 (IANS) Twelve people were arrested during demonstrations over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in Minneapolis, the largest city in the US state of Minnesota, authorities said.The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Friday on X that “12 anti-ICE agitators were arrested for assaulting law enforcement.”Demonstrations continued into Friday, with crowds still gathering outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, Xinhua news agency reported quot…
Washington, Jan 14 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has sharply criticised Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as “a lousy Fed chairman” and defended the actions of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent involved in a fatal incident in Minnesota, while rejecting claims of political retaliation.In an interview with CBS News conducted at a Ford assembly plant on Tuesday, Trump dismissed accusations that a criminal probe involving Powell amounted to retribution for policy disagreeme…
Washington, Jan 9 (IANS) US Vice President JD Vance defended an ICE officer who fatally shot a woman during an immigration enforcement action in Minneapolis, calling the death “a tragedy” while saying the officer acted in self-defence and accusing Democrats and parts of the media of stoking hostility toward federal agents.Speaking at the White House on Thursday, Vance said the episode was “an attack on federal law enforcement” and insisted the woman, Renee Good, “aimed her car at a law…
Washington, Jan 9 (IANS) US Vice President JD Vance announced that the Trump administration is creating a new assistant attorney general position with nationwide authority to coordinate fraud investigations, saying the effort will begin in Minnesota but expand across the country.“We are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud,” Vance told reporters at the White House on Thursday. “Now, of course, that person’s effor…
Washinton, Dec 31 (IANS) The Trump administration announced that it is halting child care funding to the northern state of Minnesota after a series of alleged fraud schemes in recent years.”We have frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota. You have probably read the serious allegations that the state of Minnesota has funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to fraudulent daycares across Minnesota over the past decade,” Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill said o…