 JULY 2, 2019 The Trump administration will move forward with printing the 2020 census without a controversial citizenship question, a Department of Justice spokesperson said Tuesday.
The Supreme Court last week blocked the administration from adding the question, saying it did not provide a sufficient rationale for including it in the census. Opponents of adding the question said it was designed as a Republican effort to depress response rates in largely Democratic immigrant communities.
“The bad faith of the Trump administration was so egregious that two different courts found the actions in violation of the law,” said MSNBC's Chris Hayes. “Today, it looks like the Trump administration basically had to admit it was all a ruse, and wave the white flag.”
“On this one, the law gets the last word,” Ari Melber said.
 DHS Office of the Inspector General  DHS Office of the Inspector General Government investigators have identified poor conditions in another sector of the southern border, publishing graphic photos showing extreme overcrowding in Rio Grande Valley migrant facilities, reports NBC News' Julia Ainsley.
Investigators for the Department of Homeland Security who visited border stations in the El Paso, Texas, sector in May found similar conditions: migrants being held in temporary facilities for weeks rather than days, single adults living in standing room-only cells with no space to lie down, and concerns about serious health risks.
One senior manager at a facility called the situation a "ticking time bomb," according to the report. When migrants detained in the facilities saw investigators walking through, they banged on the cell windows and pressed notes against the plexiglass to show the length of time they had spent in custody. One said, "Help. 40 Day Here."
"This facility is in the middle of a normal American neighborhood [Welsaco, Texas]," says MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. "It's right next door to an Olive Garden and a Longhorn Steakhouse... these are the conditions inside a facility in America. This is not a waiting area. This is housing. These are the living conditions, as provided by the U.S. government, on an indefinite basis."
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes about what she saw while touring two other Texas facilities Monday.
“What you saw in the eyes of many of them [migrants] was fear, is the sense of loss, just glassy eyes. They look exhausted.”
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 Border patrol is investigating after a ProPublica report revealed a secret border patrol Facebook group where agents joke about migrant deaths and post sexist memes. Former border patrol agent Jenn Budd says this was “very typical” and talked about what she called the “dirty little secrets of the border patrol."
 Trump talks about the issue of homelessness by calling American cities “disgraceful,” but doesn’t actually say what he would do to fix them. Professor Michael Eric Dyson breaks down how Trump can use executive powers to address the issue of homelessness in America. (The Beat)
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