Prosecutors challenge Barr’s bid to change immigration rules

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Brooklyn district attorney and more than 40 other state and local prosecutors are challenging Attorney General William Barr’s bid to give himself more authority in deciding whether to deport immigrants with criminal convictions.
Barr wants to change immigration rules that now defer to state and local decisions on criminal cases that may affect whether an immigrant is deported. He wants to ignore whether an immigrant’s criminal conviction has been overturne