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Supreme Court weighs birthright citizenship
Lafayette sheriff resurrects 2019 suit
Parish accused of not paying mandated costs for jail operations BY CLAIRE TAYLOR Staff writer
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Tanjam Jacobson, of Silver Spring, Md., holds a sign supporting birthright citizenship Thursday outside the Supreme Court in Washington. Jacobson is a naturalized U.S. citizen of Indian descent who was born in England and her son was born here. ‘This is something that really matters,’ said Jacobson. ‘It’s so wrong against the Constitution (to take away birthright citizenship).’
Decision could also impact nationwide court orders BY MARK SHERMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed intent Thursday on maintaining a block on President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship while looking for a way to scale back nationwide court orders. It was unclear what such a decision might look like, but a majority of the court expressed concerns about would happen if the Trump administration were allowed, even temporarily, to deny citizenship to children born to people who are in the United States illegally. The justices heard arguments in the
Trump administration’s emergency appeals over lower court orders that have kept the citizenship restrictions on hold across the country. Nationwide injunctions have emerged as an important check on Trump’s efforts to remake the government and a source of mounting frustration to the Republican president and his allies. Judges have issued 40 nationwide injunctions since Trump began his second term in January, Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the court at the start of more than two hours of arguments. Birthright citizenship is among several issues, many related to immigration, that the administration has asked the court to address on an emergency basis.
The justices also are considering the Trump administration’s pleas to end humanitarian parole for more than 500,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela and to strip other temporary legal protections from another 350,000 Venezuelans. The administration remains locked in legal battles over its efforts to swiftly deport people accused of being gang members to a prison in El Salvador under an 18th-century wartime law called the Alien Enemies Act. Trump signed an executive order on the first day of his second term that would deny citizenship to children who are born to people who are in the country illegally
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Lafayette Parish Sheriff Mark Garber has resurrected a 2019 jail funding lawsuit against the parish that has been dormant since 2022. Garber’s lawsuit, filed when Joel Robideaux was mayor-president, accuses the parish of not meeting its legal responsibilities to pay certain mandated costs for jail operations. State law, the lawsuit alleges, requires the parish to provide a jail and pay for its operating costs. Garber sent a letter in August 2019 to the parish explaining the cost of services it incurred in the previous fiscal year and asking that the parish pay the salaries of some mandated Garber positions associated with the jail, including food service, maintenance, dietitian, laundry, education and mental health professionals. The cost of the 35 positions in 2019 was $1.7 million, the lawsuit states. The lawsuit alleges the parish owes $525,447 for transportation and $10.7 million in other costs, including for nurses and dentists. Robideaux in October 2019 asked the council not to fund the $1.7 million Garber was seeking. In a May 2022 “reconventional demand,” a response to Garber’s lawsuit, the parish alleged the Sheriff’s Office was overcharging Lafayette Consolidated Government for sending local prisoners to jails outside Lafayette Parish to free up space in the local jail for state and federal inmates because those agencies pay more. Garber’s lawsuit remained inactive for about two years under the
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Landry urges La. police to partner with ICE Use of local agencies has soared since Trump began immigration crackdown
BY JAMES FINN Staff writer
Louisiana state troopers are poised to start enforcing federal immigration laws under a controversial partnership that President Donald Trump has dramatically expanded in a bid to speed up immigration arrests and deportations. Gov. Jeff Landry issued an executive
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order Thursday urging local law enforcement agencies, too, to join the Department of Homeland Security’s 287(g) program, which lets Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials delegate certain immigration enforcement duties to local cops working under ICE supervision. Federal agents alone typically have that Landry authority. Louisiana State Police recently entered an agreement under the 287(g) program, Maj. Nick Manale, an agency spokesperson, said Thursday. So have the Louisiana Department
of Wildlife and Fisheries, spokesperson Taylor Brazan said, and the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections, according to Landry’s executive order. Manale and Barzan said “operational details” of those agreements have not yet been finalized. In his executive order, Landry, a Trump ally, directed remaining state law enforcement agencies to “explore, and where appropriate, enter into” 287(g) agreements. The order “strongly encourage(d)” local agencies to make those agreements. “If you’re here illegally and you engage
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A lawsuit by the Lafayette Parish sheriff alleges the parish is not paying mandated costs for the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center.
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