Republicans used an unusual legislative maneuver to force movement on a bill strictly limit gifts that can be given to public officials in Pennsylvania. As it stands, Pennsylvania allows unlimited gifts to elected officials, as long as it can’t be proven the gift is in exchange for favorable policy.
The Department of Homeland Security is making weekly deportation flights from Louisiana to Haiti. After receiving a reprieve last week, York pastor Molis Augustave was flown out of the country Thursday, according to a community group organizing on his behalf.
Within days of being spared deportation through the intervention of Pennsylvania’s top political figures, a York pastor and father of two U.S. citizen children is again at risk of being flown out of the country.
A York pastor and father of two U.S.-citizen children was loaded on to a deportation flight to Haiti, but was removed at the last minute, according to immigration advocates. They are celebrating the momentary win while calling for continued support for the legal challenges ahead in the case of Molis Augustave.
Immigration advocates are asking Gov. Josh Shaprio and Sen. John Fetterman, both Democrats, to contact to U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin in an attempt to stay the deportation of York pastor and Haitian immigrant Molis Augustave.
Haitian pastor Molis Augustave from York County, Pennsylvania, was stopped by local police for a broken headlight. ICE detained Augustave, who worked with local immigration rights advocacy group We Are CASA, and sent him to a detention center in Louisiana.
Pennsylvania businesses have a month to return skill games to vendors or be “subject to criminal prosecution and immediate seizure of machines,” according to a statement by state police.
Pennsylvania’s top election official says the federal government is trying to illegally change election rules and says one of his biggest concerns is the spread of false information about voting.
At a time when opinion polling shows Americans’ number one concern is the economy and cost of living, organized labor is at an inflection point. Union membership has been on a steady decline since Ronald Regan was elected president in 1980, according to Paul Clark, a Penn State professor who studies and teaches about unions.