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The Caroline County Board of Supervisors entered an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security on July 1 to repurpose the old county jail to an active ICE detention center for adult men and women without children.
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Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter Friday to Alex Azar, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), requesting information about unaccompanied alien children in the custody of HHS.
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Jarrod Ramos had a gun. How that man, with a history of abuse, harassment, online threats, death threats, was able to own a gun, says a lot about how our society is failing.
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A Saturday rally in Charlottesville will bring together a wide array of groups to protest the Trump administration’s policies in immigration detention and separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Last week I joined with colleagues in the House of Delegates in signing a joint letter to all the Virginia senators and representatives in Congress about “our outrage at the cruel and systematic separation of immigrant children and their families at the U.S. border with Mexico.”
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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine has an 18-point lead on Republican challenger Corey Stewart, chair of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, according to a Quinnipiac University Poll released today.
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The Supreme Court ruled 5-4, along ideological lines, to uphold President Trump’s ban on travel for people from six predominantly Muslim countries.
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U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) responded Monday to a letter from members of the House of Delegates that asked Virginia’s congressional delegation to oppose the Trump Administration’s policy of separating immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Today, U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine wrote to the Trump Administration demanding more information after an Associated Press report indicated widespread physical and psychological abuse of immigrant children at the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center in Staunton.
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Rep. Don Beyer today called for the resignation of Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security in the Trump Administration.
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