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Donate Edited by Andrew Cohen View in browser Pick of the News Targeting children. The Trump administration is now offering children $3,000 to voluntarily deport. Sometimes, ICE lawyers make the pitch to children. Sometimes, immigration judges do so. Bloomberg Law The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement priorities will have a profound economic impact on seniors, who will lose an average of more than $2,000 a year in Social Security benefits by 2034. The Guardian Federal immigration officials are considering using ships to transport hundreds of deportees to Central and South America. The New York Times More: The Trump adminsitration sued Denver last week over a new ordinance that bans law enforcement officers, including ICE officers, from wearing masks on duty. States Newsroom Federal agents target a Democratic congresswoman. Federal agents affiliated with Homeland Security Investigations searched the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar in Washington, D.C. on Monday. The Minnesota Star Tribune “Make no mistake,” Omar said. “this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement.” Minnesota Reformer The Democratic congresswoman has been a frequent target of President Donald Trump and his Republican allies. The Associated Press The Justice Department’s retaliatory campaign against Trump’s perceived political enemies continues to struggle. The New York Times New details about the flailing search for evidence in partisan investigations. The Wall Street Journal Three weeks to go until the election. A federal judge on Friday struck down the Trump administration’s attempt to obtain states’ unredacted voter-roll information. The ruling affects both states that have refused to accede to the Justice Department’s attempt to use the data and states that have cooperated. Democracy Docket Related: Read the ruling. U.S. District Court, District of Columbia More: Election officials in Washington, D.C. asked National Guard officials not to station troops near ballot drop-boxes as the midterm election approaches. Photographs and video of Guard members standing next to ballot boxes last week alarmed some residents who fear the Trump administration’s authoritarian tactics. The Washington Sun Immigration nation. ICE agents in Harrison, New Jersey seized a man last week whose family desperately tried to prevent the arrest. The episode was captured on video, alarming bystanders and local officials. NJ.com Federal immigration agents are harassing and intimidating members of the Tohono O’odham Nation in Southern Arizona in an effort to quell the tribe’s opposition to the construction of a border wall through their territory. ProPublica Texas landowners continue to fight back against the administration’s attempt to build a border wall in their communities. The Associated Press A Laotian man deported to Eswatini by U.S. agents last year was released from a maximum-security prison after spending a year behind bars there. Phone Chomsavanh was then deported from Africa to Laos. The Associated Press “If you don't have ID, you're kind of like, you don't exist.” Arizona is one of six states with a voter identification measure on the ballot in three weeks. The initiative replicates a Trump administration effort to expand voter identification laws as a way to help prevent noncitizens from voting – even though such occurrences are extraordinarily rare. But the Arizona measure, like others, will likely suppress the votes of unhoused people who are U.S. citizens without driver’s licenses or other official forms of identification. Arizona already makes it difficult for people without permanent addresses to get driver’s licenses. TMP’s Geoff Hing has the latest edition of Closing Argument, our weekly newsletter. The Marshall Project N/S/E/W A man fatally shot eight people on Friday before taking his own life at his home in Erie, Pennsylvania. The Associated Press Police say the gunman was a 45-year-old grandfather who was relate