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Students in Arizona that are protected under DACA will no longer be eligible for in-state college tuition. The Supreme Court ruled this decision on Monday, 4/9/18. This decision will affect more than 2,000 students the article says, it will affect students in community colleges and three public universities. The fee changes will take effect immediately and in some cases, the fee will be triple the annual cost of attendance. Arizona DACA students are also ineligible for federal or state financial aid. Other states that are also prohibiting in-state tuition for Dreamers are Georgia and Indiana, Alabama and South Carolina has completely banned DACA students from enrolling in any public postsecondary institution. Since this has been happening, other states including Utah have allowed public universities to use private sources of funding to support financial aid to unauthorized immigrant students. In Connecticut, they are currently offering scholarships through the Dream.UsScholarship progr

A California Congressman on Tuesday speculated that the shooter at the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno could be an "illegal immigrant". "Would anyone be surprised? We have a state government in California that's trying to prevent our law enforcement people from working with the federal law enforcement people to get together the criminal illegal aliens, to deal with criminal illegal aliens". The shooter was later identified as a white adult woman who died at the scene. Her immigration status was not immediately disclosed. A Conservative stalwart it says in the article tried to draw a line between the gunfire at YouTube headquarters near San Francisco and sanctuary cities (sanctuary cities are communities that do not fully cooperate with feds to enforce immigration laws). https://nypost.com/2018/04/03/congressman-speculates-youtube-shooter-was-illegal-immigrant/  

In an article posted yesterday, ICE has apparently been using and relied on Facebook data to find and track immigrants that are suspected of being in the U.S illegally. Ice has used backend Facebook data to determine when the account of the person in question was accessed and if the IP adresses corresponds to each login. ICE agents have reportedly combined this data with other routinely used records like phone records to pinpoint people's locations. Facebook is already in a scandal with Cambridge Analytica, a firm that controls data because apparently, Cambridge Analytica misused Facebook's data of 50 million users to develop the software that the Trump campaign used to target voters in the 2016 election. The article also says that the use of Facebook's data is not illegal. Facebook responded and said that "ICE sent valid legal process to us in an investigation said to involove an active chid predator". Facebook also denies that the data was used to identify an

An article I found that was posted on Sunday talked about how immigration activists are accusing ICE of targeting them. Specific groups including the American Civil Liberties Union told the NPR that they could identify 20 instances were immigration activists or volunteers were arrested or fined by ICE. The activists and volunteers claimed that the agency only became aware of them because of their activism. A quote from an activist, Zully Rodrigues that was caught by ICE said, "We're always at the marches and giving interviews, without fear of what could happen, so to go against us is a way to intimidate the community. Since this has been happening, immigration groups sued ICE in February for allegedly targeting immigration activists for possible deportation. I feel like ICE is going after activists and volunteers because those activists have some sort of power within their community, and ICE wants to take their power away. Activists are brave and have the courage to speak ou

In a recent article, a spokesman, James Schwab for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Francisco resigned because of how the Trump administration is handling the immigrant raids in the Bay Area. He told the San Francisco Chronicle that the administration officials, and Trump had "grossly exaggerated the number of undocumented immigrants who avoided arrest after Oakland's mayor tipped off the public before raids began on February 25th". He also said, "I quit because I didn't want to perpetuate misleading facts". "I asked them to change the information. I told them that the information was wrong, they asked me to deflect, and I didn't agree with that. Then I took some time and I quit". Schwab also added that they were not going to be able to capture 100 percent of the target list. Schwab also told CNN that he could no longer "bear the burden- continuing on as a representative of the agency and charged with upholding integrity, knowing

California is trying to push back against the Trump administrations efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. California's attorney general, Xavier Becerra and 18 other state attorneys general registered their opposition to the question. The justice department had asked the Census Bureau to include a citizenship question on the new census and Becerra disagrees. Becerra believes that the department is wrong when it argues that the addition would be "critical to the department's enforcement of section 2 of the Voting Rights Act." Berea and others wrote in a letter to the U.S. Commerce Secretary that the question would violate the U.S. Census Bureau obligations under the constitution because it requires "counting the whole number of persons in each state," not just citizens. The California Department of Justice is putting Trump on notice. The notice is that if the citizenship question is added to the 2020 census, then California is prepared to t