Senate staffer and parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, who has twice rejected immigration provisions for inclusion in the budget reconciliation package, may have worked to deport immigrants when she served as a prosecutor roughly two decades ago, Pablo Manríquez reports for Latino Rebels. Manríquez brings to light a 2012 Politico profile that noted her late 1990s work as “a Justice Department trial attorney, handling immigration cases from a gritty jail office in Elizabeth, NJ.” Respected attorneys tell Latino Rebels that her position and the location of her work means she may have argued in favor of deportations as she’s now given immense say over the future of millions of immigrants. Read more