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The president says a new guidance on school prayer is coming soon. The Supreme Court allows more racial profiling in immigration enforcement and Missouri unions mobilize against redistricting.

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Welcome to 2025 Talks, where we're following our democracy and historic times.

To support students like Hannah, I'm pleased to announce this morning that the Department of Education will soon issue new guidance protecting the right to prayer in our public schools and it's total protection.

President Donald Trump says new guidelines will prevent what he calls anti-Christian bias like that against a Texas girl who he says was punished for organizing a prayer for an injured peer.

The move matches a campaign promise but is likely to face legal challenges.

Courts have generally ruled that students are free to pray, while teachers and staff cannot mandate it.

In Oklahoma, a Bible is now required in every classroom.

In Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas now require the Ten Commandments be displayed in them.

Those laws have suffered court setbacks.

The Supreme Court also just ruled 6-3 that ICE agents can use racial profiling to make LA immigration stops.

That means officers can use a person's ethnicity, language, or job to demand proof of citizenship.

Paul Perez of the National Border Patrol Council praised the ruling on Fox News.

This is great for our agents, but it's even better for the citizens of California and our country because it's going to move the impediment of us allowing to go after these criminals that are all over the country.

Within hours of the ruling, Homeland Security announced major operations in Massachusetts and Chicago.

Ernest Herrera with the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund says despite the court decision run by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the decision violates the Constitution.

Justice Kavanaugh sacrifices the rights of all Latinos to the false Trumpist idol of unconstrained immigration enforcement.

This Trump administration are going to be allowed to do an ethnic cleansing of this country and go after the people they see as enemies, which are Latinos.

Although the White House has said the National Guard would be sent to Chicago as an anti-crime move, Trump is now describing actions there as solely immigration enforcement.

City officials point out that detaining migrant criminals has been standard practice for years, hardly requires a flood of troops, and would have negligible impact on street crime.

Missouri labor unions are mobilizing against Republican redistricting plans and say they'll join community groups in a protest at the state capitol tomorrow.

Republicans may try to crack the overwhelming Democratic Kansas City seat of Congressman Emmanuel Cleaver.

Ariana Kimbrough is with the Missouri Workers Center.

Only by joining together to confront the bullies from our state house to the White House who seek to control us will we stop illegal authoritarian power grabs and protect our freedoms and future.

Election officials and watchdogs are opposing cuts to the agency that assists local election authorities with cyber vulnerabilities.

Defend the Vote says threats of foreign interference and violence on poll workers have put election officials on edge.

Supporters of the cuts say too much federal involvement could bring red tape and shift control away from local officials.

I'm Zimone Perez for Pacifica Network and Public News Service.

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