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Family visitation partly restored at Delaney Hall immigration detention centre in Newark, New Jersey; California unions speak out against GOP bill to fund ICE; North Carolina may face prison gerrymandering for 2030 Census; Feds keep Michigan coal-fired power plant online despite clean alternatives.

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The Public News Service daily newscast, June the 1st, 2026.

I'm Mike Clifford.

The governor of New Jersey and U.S. Homeland Security officials confirmed Sunday that family visitation at the Delaney Hall Immigration Detention Center is being restored to at least part of the facility.

That after a week during which heated demonstrations at the site were met with aggressive policing tactics.

The Guardian notes visitation had been canceled after detained immigrants began carrying out hunger and labor strike inside the detention center, which prompted protests outside the facility in support of those striking.

Meantime, polls show a majority of Americans are not comfortable with current immigration enforcement.

Still, congressional Republicans want to provide an extra $70 billion for such operations with proposed reforms in doubt, and that worries union voices in California.

The GOP resists calls for requiring ICE and Border Patrol agents to go without masks, wear identification and body cameras, and obtain a judicial warrant before entering private property.

James Early works at Coalinga State Hospital and is a steward with SEIU Local 1000.

He recently rallied against the bill in Washington, D.C., calling last summer's ice raids.

And to see a federal agency running around in masks, that's not a police force that I want.

That's not an America I want.

That's not freedom.

That's oppression.

The D.C. rally also protested massive Medicaid cuts in a Republican-sponsored tax and policy law from last summer.

The Trump administration put some savings toward immigration enforcement, saying it's necessary to uphold the rule of law.

I'm Suzanne Potter.

And the U.S. Census Bureau is drawing criticism ahead of its 2030 count.

As a nonpartisan group warns, it could repeat a major mistake in how it counts incarcerated people.

The issue is known as prison gerrymandering, and North Carolina has not yet passed a statewide law to address the problem.

Mike Wessler with Prison Policy Initiative says the Census Bureau counts incarcerated people in the wrong place.

It considers them residents of a prison or jail rather than their home communities.

He adds that this creates a problem every 10 years when states use census data to draw new congressional, legislative, and city or county commission maps.

It artificially inflates the population of prisons and jails and artificially decreases the population of communities where incarcerated people come from.

Those communities tend to be poor and communities of color.

He points out they're not seeing any evidence that the Census Bureau is taking any steps to address this problem further.

He notes that this practice distorts political power and political representation in favor of communities that contain prisons.

Danielle Smith reporting.

Wessler says counting incarcerated people in their home communities won't change how federal dollars flow.

He notes that while people are urged every decade to fill out the form to bring money back home, funding formulas are far more complicated.

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The Trump administration has once again ordered the coal-fired Campbell Power Plant in West Michigan to remain open.

That despite Consumer Energy's plan to shut the plant down last year.

Clean Energy advocates say the move is unnecessary and will lead to higher consumer costs and more carbon pollution than renewable energy sources.

Michelle Solomon is the energy manager for the nonpartisan policy think tank Energy Innovation.

She calls the move a swift kick in the wallet for Michigan rate payers.

Electricity consumers are paying double for the electricity that they would need that's coming from this coal plant because they're already paying for the new resource in addition to now paying for the coal plant that's being kept online.

The state of Michigan, along with other states and environmental groups, has sued to block the Trump administration from using emergency powers to keep the plants open.

Solomon says keeping Campbell online is costing Michigan consumers an extra $180 million.

I'm Mark Richardson.

And Iowa farmers say the House version of the federal farm bill favors corporate ag interest over small operations.

The law is supposed to be updated every five years, but the current version has been in place since 2018.

The Farm Bill is among the largest and most sweeping pieces of legislation that Congress takes on.

Farm Action Executive Director Angela Huffman says the House proposal continues a disturbing trend of favoring large, factory-style producers over small, independent pastures.

She says local farms remain important to the nation's food supply.

A Farm Bill really needs to shift power back into the hands of farmers to grow healthy foods and not lock in more advantages for the largest corporations.

As it stands, the bill channels commodity and disaster funds to large ag operations and away from smaller ones.

It also cuts $187 billion from food and nutrition assistance programs, including SNAP.

The Senate could consider the measure this month.

I'm Mark Moran.

Finally, New Mexico has spent the past decade adopting stricter methane and greenhouse gas regulations for the state's booming oil and gas sector.

Now a bill before the Congress could upend that progress.

The Protect Domestic Oil and Gas Small Business Act of 2026, backed by two Republican lawmakers, would exempt low-producing marginal wells from federal oversight.

Supporters say small, independent energy producers shouldn't be burdened by federal methane requirements approved in 2024.

But Progress Now New Mexico's Energy Policy Director Lucas Herndon says wells owned by small operators often pollute the most.

In New Mexico, those are actually the ones that we find leaking more, venting more.

They are often older wells potentially producing as much, if not more, greenhouse gases overall.

I'm Roz Brown.

After Texas, New Mexico is the second largest producer of oil in the U.S. This is Mike Clifford for Public News Service.

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