Being a home owner may be more affordable than you think. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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US Senator John Kennedy is spearheading a push for a congressional endorsement of ICE, while immigrant advocates call for the agency’s abolition. Matt Doyle has the story.
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Teams are headed to SEC Media Days at Atlanta’s College Football Hal of Fame. Connor Ferrill has the story.
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The Louisiana Housing Corporation Board of Directors approved $6.1 million for LHC’s soft second mortgage assistance initiative, which is slated to launch August 2018 in select parishes. Executive Director of LHC, Keith Cunningham, says with the program being a home owner may be more affordable than you think.
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The purpose of the initiative is to bridge the affordability gap between the price of the home and the maximum amount a homebuyer can borrow with a first mortgage loan. Cunningham says the program can help with other costs associated with initiating the process as well.
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Cunningham says stable housing is something the agency takes very seriously.
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Teams are headed to Atlanta’s College Football Hall of Fame to kick off SEC media days on July 16th. Coach O is in undoubtedly in the hot seat following last year’s shaky season but ESPN.com writer Chris Lowe says Orgeron has an answer to the question every team is asking…
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Mystique also surrounds new Texas A&M Head Coach Jimbo Fisher and the immediate impact he’ll provide. Lowe says expectations are high after leaving Florida State a champion.
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Lowe says the quarterback battle for LSU is far from over, and there should be no surprise if it isn’t settled by the regular season…
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Governor John Bel Edwards and Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain are taking a trip out to the farm. They will be meeting with local sugarcane farmers July 19th to discuss tariffs among other issues. Strain says he and the governor will be on hand to congratulate sugarcane farmers for their historic achievement…
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Strain says they’re there to congratulate the farmers for their great work and to help understand what the state can do better to ensure another historic harvest…
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Louisiana has been plagued by decades of infrastructure neglect. Strain says they’re putting together some of the biggest names in Louisiana agriculture as the Governor takes a hard look at the roots of rural economic development…
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US Senator John Kennedy has filed a resolution that could lead to a congressional denouncement of the movement to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. Calls to Abolish ICE have mounted in recent months in the wake of the White House’s No Tolerance immigration policies, such as family separations. Kennedy says those calls are misplaced, calling ICE agents patriots who protect national security.
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US Congressman Clay Higgins has filed a similar resolution in the House.
The early to mid-2010’s saw a large uptick in the number of Central and South American immigrants entering the country, many of them settling in New Orleans, working in construction during the post-Katrina rebuild. Kennedy says ICE exists to stop illegal immigration and prevent criminals from entering the country.
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But immigration activists say that just isn’t the case, and point to crime rate data that shows that undocumented immigrants are statistically less likely to commit crime than legal citizens. Congress of Day Laborers Organizer Rachel Taber says members of their organization who have been deported or separated were not a threat to their communities, like mother of two Jaime Galino Madrid.
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Congresso member Adolfo, who says he came to Louisiana 14 years ago as a minor, and works construction in disaster recovery zones, says the agency has been targeting longtime residents and journalists like Manuel Durand, who he says has been detained in Louisiana. Adolfo, as translated by Taber, says ICE isn’t fighting terrorism, they’re committing it.
Kennedy says if immigration activists want to change immigration law, they need to pass legislation instead of calling for the end of ICE. He says the abolition calls are part of left-wing animus towards all law enforcement, and says its part of a larger radical agenda to reshape the country.
But Adolfo, translated by Taber, says ICE is a relatively new federal agency that could be removed without jeopardizing national security.
Adolfo and Taber say instead of ICE and No Tolerance immigration, the federal government should pursue policies that would decriminalize undocumented immigrants and create a pathway to legal status.
The resolution would also give ICE a congressional endorsement.