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The agreements are scattering education programs to agencies that do not have the expertise to manage them, said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.

“Instead of helping kids get a great education, this administration is spending its time, energy, and taxpayer resources fixated on where employees sit and illegally trying to shutter the Department of Education,” Murray said in a written statement.

Rachel Gittleman, president of the union that represents department employees, said the moves will create chaos for families, students and schools.

“DHS needs to stop playing games with Karla’s life. They have already dropped her deportation case once before. Their decision to re-file raises the question whether they are retaliating against Karla for speaking out. On the heels of the 14th anniversary of DACA, it is mind-boggling that the Trump Administration is targeting someone like Karla – a DACA recipient with no criminal record, a strong record of service to her community, and someone who has lived here almost her entire life. The targeting of DREAMers like Karla proves that these immigration raids were never about public safety or border security. To add insult to injury, ICE has yet to answer for why they unlawfully stormed Karla’s home without a judicial warrant.”

Rep. Jim McGovern, a Massachusetts Democrat, asked Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins about her recent comments that it was “good news” that millions of people no longer receive SNAP. If more than 700,000 children have been dropped in the 12 states that report those figures, “that number’s going to be into the millions” when other states are included, he said.

Rollins responded, “The 700,000 number of children is not correct,” contending that most people who were kicked off SNAP were “fraudulent.”

In its report, ICE claims that the new national standards “streamline” its regulations and “reduce the burden” on detention operators. But the revised standards eliminate pay requirements for people being detained — which previously often stood at $1 a day — and eliminate mandates requiring in-person and telephone interpretation and translation.