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Listen: Ron DeSantis’s presidential launch suffers major technical issues
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is facing mounting criticism over a sweeping new immigration law coming into effect on 1 July, which has caused the state’s Latino truck drivers to pledge to leave deliveries unmade on Thursday and migrant-owned businesses to shutter their doors in protest.
Senate Bill 1718 imposes strict new employment mandates on businesses and workers, limits access to social services for undocumented immigrants, allocates millions more tax dollars to expand Mr DeSantis’s “Unauthorized Alien Transport Program”, invalidates driver’s licences issued to undocumented people in other states and requires public hospitals to check up on a patient’s immigration status.
Guadalupe de la Cruz, director of the Florida chapter of the American Friends Service Committee, told Mother Jones: “The bill has caused a lot of panic and chaos. Many of our community members are either leaving Florida or considering it.”
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida has likewise denounced the bill as “cruel, dangerous and overbroad”.
Meanwhile, on the 2024 campaign trail, Mr DeSantis has travelled from Iowa to New Hampshire in his tour of early-voting states. At one stop he snapped at a reporter when asked why he hadn’t taken questions from voters.
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Oliver O'Connell1 June 2023 18:45
Recap: Trump caught on tape discussing classified documents he kept after leaving White House
Federal prosecutors have reportedly obtained a recording of former president Donald Trump discussing classified documents he kept at his private residences long after his term expired in January 2021.
According to CNN, the audiotape of Mr Trump was created during the summer of 2021, approximately six months after the ex-president had left office.
Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington, DC.
Oliver O'Connell1 June 2023 18:30
Oath Keeper who guarded Roger Stone before Jan 6 attack sentenced
A member of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group who was part of a security detail for former President Donald Trump‘s longtime adviser Roger Stone before storming the US Capitol was sentenced on Thursday to more than four years in prison.
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Oliver O'Connell1 June 2023 18:17
Watch: McEnany still praising Trump even after he insulted her
Oliver O'Connell1 June 2023 18:05
Alabama senator condemned by his own brother for ‘vile rhetoric'
Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville has evoked outrage and scorn from Democratic critics in recent weeks with a string of incendiary comments defending white nationalists and suggesting that teachers in “inner cities” are illiterate.
Now, his own brother has added his voice to the chorus of Americans who’ve been offended and dismayed by the first-term senator’s forays into racism.
Andrew Feinberg has the story.
Oliver O'Connell1 June 2023 17:45
Trump doesn’t like the term ‘woke’
Speaking in Iowa, Donald Trump says he doesn’t like the term “woke” because most people don’t know what it means.
The former president said: “I don’t like the term ‘woke,” because I hear the term ‘woke woke woke’ — it’s just a term they use, half the people can’t define it, they don’t know what it is.”
Oliver O'Connell1 June 2023 17:36
Failed MAGA candidate indicted for shooting spree targeting Democrats
Bevan Hurley reports.
Oliver O'Connell1 June 2023 17:15