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Michigan Caps What a Party Can Give a Candidate for Governor at $750,000. John James Took $1.8 Million in DeVos-Funded Ads From His Party.

Michigan Caps What a Party Can Give a Candidate for Governor at $750,000. John James Took $1.8 Million in DeVos-Funded Ads From His Party.

A brand-new committee whose only reported donors are Amway heirs Dan and Doug DeVos, at $2 million between them, gave $2 million to the Michigan Republican Party, which gave John James $1.8 million in TV ads — more than twice what state law lets a party give a candidate for governor. The same day it was disclosed, James said 'we need to get money out of politics.'

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Trump's ICE Is Paying Local Police to Turn In Their Neighbors. In One Flood-Wrecked Texas Town, Two Officers Handed Over the Equivalent of a Tenth of the Town.

Trump's ICE Is Paying Local Police to Turn In Their Neighbors. In One Flood-Wrecked Texas Town, Two Officers Handed Over the Equivalent of a Tenth of the Town.

The Trump administration revived a program that was shut down after the Justice Department found racial profiling, then sweetened it with cash: $100,000 for vehicles, reimbursed salaries and bonuses for officers. In Ingram, Texas, a town of 1,900 still rebuilding from a deadly flood, two patrol officers handed the equivalent of 10% of the town to ICE.

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