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A video shows detainees walking around an outdoor area surrounded by barbed-wire fences. Every day, hundreds of immigrants arrive at this airport in Alexandria, La., and…

In late April, the Department of Justice announced that it was ending a decades-long consent decree in Plaquemines parish, Louisiana, in a school district that has…

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A federal appeals court on Friday unanimously upheld a lower court’s injunction blocking Louisiana’s law requiring a display of the Ten Commandments in every public school…