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U.S. House Democrats will be holding their second field hearing next week to address fatal shootings committed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-ME, has organized the hearing, “Seeking Justice in Biddeford” to conduct oversight of ICE’s use of force after the July 13 ICE fatal shooting of Colombian national Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, in Biddeford, Maine.

The hearing will be held at 11 a.m. Aug. 17 at Biddeford High School’s Little Theater.

As Americans continue to struggle with the cost of gasoline, groceries, healthcare, housing, and more under President Donald Trump, congressional Democrats and economists on Wednesday used his own government’s latest inflation figures to call out the Republican’s handling of the US economy.

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the consumer price index—a measure of goods and services bought by households—increased 0.1% on a seasonally adjusted basis in July after falling 0.4% in June. The annual inflation rate was 3.4% before seasonal adjustment.

House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) says progressive Abdul Ed-Sayed's win in Michigan is a signal that voters are looking for "fighters" who will stand up for them in Congress. She says she believes Democrats will have the majority in the House come November, while signaling openness to a stopgap bill to avert a shutdown, noting that the Senate's proposal is a "big improvement." She speaks with Kailey Leinz and Joe Mathieu on the late edition of Bloomberg’s "Balance of Power."

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Gov. Maura Healey is urging the U.S. Senate to pass legislation extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians, warning that a failure to act will severely disrupt the state’s economy and healthcare sectors.

TPS for Haitians ended Monday following a U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld President Donald Trump’s plan to end the protections, which have been in place since 2010. Legislation to extend the status for Haitians has already passed the U.S. House of Representatives.

Every Democratic member of Massachusetts’ House delegation joined nearly 200 congressional Democrats across the country on Friday to demand independent investigations into the fatal shootings of two men by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Texas and Maine, escalating pressure on the agency after its second deadly shooting in less than a week.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and other prominent New England Democrats are celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Tuesday to strike down President Donald Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship.

Elected leaders and immigration advocates in Massachusetts applauded the Supreme Court's decision to uphold birthright citizenship on Tuesday.

"It's simple: if you're born in America, you're an American," said U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren on social media.

"The fight to defend immigrant rights from Trump's cruelty is not over," the Democrat wrote, "but today the Court upheld the law."

U.S. Sen. Ed Markey echoed that sentiment.

The United States Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Mullin v. Doe, which allows the Trump Administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status for Haitian and Syrian nationals, was met with dismay by immigrant advocates and members of Cambridge’s Haitian community.