Trump Ties Massive Police Grants to Immigration, Homelessness Crackdowns

Trump’s $3 Billion Immigration Grants Test Local Police Independence

The Trump administration is offering state and local governments up to $3 billion to help local police enforce federal immigration law. ... The post Trump’s $3 Billion Immigration Grants Test Local Police Independence appeared first on The New American.

Civil rights leaders sound alarm over city’s potential application for grant from Trump’s Justice Dept.

New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno’s administration is considering applying for a competitive grant from the U.S. Department of Justice through its Model Cities Initiative that, if awarded, could provide tens of millions of dollars to support public safety programs and strategies at a time when the city is in desperate need of additional money. But it appears that in order to receive the grant, the city would have to agree to align with Trump admin…

Trump’s Homelessness Executive Order Is Making Homelessness Worse

For a year, the White House has been waging an unprecedented and extreme attack on both people experiencing homelessness and the real solutions to homelessnessRead more...

DOJ Unveils $300M 'Model Cities' Grant: Ban Progressive Policing, Round up Homeless, Assist ICE Extraditions

Money is rarely neutral, and the Justice Department's newest grant makes the price of acceptance unusually explicit. To share in nearly £224 million ($300 million) of federal public-safety funding, a handful of American cities must first agree to run their streets, their homeless services and their immigration posture the way the Trump administration prefers. The Model Cities Initiative, which the Department of Justice is now inviting cities to …

Trump Ties Massive Police Grants to Immigration, Homelessness Crackdowns

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration is offering nearly $300 million to a handful of cities willing to adopt an aggressive federal policing model that ties crime-fighting money to immigration enforcement, homelessness restrictions and other administration priorities. The Justice Department’s new Model Cities Initiative will select two to four cities with populations above 100,000 for three-year grants intended to reduce violent crime, exp…

DOJ $300M Police Grant: Cities Reject Immigration Terms

The Trump administration's Department of Justice is dangling hundreds of millions in federal grant money for cities willing to adopt aggressive policing strategies modeled on Memphis and Washington, D.C., yet several cities have already refused to apply, balking at conditions that include immigration enforcement and a first-of-its-kind repayment clause. The program, called the Model Cities Initiative, would funnel up to $300 million to between t…