| Also today: Critics push back on Boston’s bike lane overhaul, and LA schools take on more debt to cover abuse payouts. |
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| Since February, federal agents — sometimes armed and in bulletproof vests — have been approaching families at their homes and on the streets to perform “welfare checks” on kids who entered the US alone. The Trump administration says they help prevent trafficking and exploitation of unaccompanied minors, but advocates representing these children argue the unprecedented checks intimidate rather than protect. Now, with the approval of billions of dollars in new funding for immigration enforcement, advocates fear these initial visits are laying the groundwork for future arrests of both the children and the immigrant adults living in the same households. “My clients are just terrified,” one attorney told reporters Fola Akinnibi and Rachel Adams-Heard. Today on CityLab: Advocates Fear US Agents Are Using ‘Wellness Checks’ on Children as a Prelude to Arrests — Linda Poon | |
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California is set to become the first US state to manage power outages with AI (Technology Review) -
The biggest myth about the YIMBY movement (Atlantic) -
How clean dirty is the air in America’s national parks? (Washington Post) -
With social prescribing, hanging out, movement and arts are doctor's order (NPR) -
Hungary’s oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation (Associated Press) | |
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