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contaminated drinking water at the sandy hook military base. how many doctors have blamed your cancer on the contaminated water at camp lejeune? seven. reporter: with letters from the country s leading cancer specialists, kotnour filed a v.a. claim connecting his cancers to his time at camp lejeune. it instantly got denied. reporter: based on your experience, is the v.a. system working? no, not at all. it s completely failing veterans. reporter: mike wishnie runs the veterans legal services clinic at yale law school. his students filed a lawsuits in 2016, seeking more information about the doctors who review their claims, known as subject matter experts or s.m.e.s. not all of them appear to have the qualifications for the job they re doing. reporter: according to documents obtained by cbs news, the approval rate dropped from 25% to 5% after they brought in these experts. the v.a. says the average approval rate is now 17%. though their own data shows it went as low as
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Last week the Biden administration ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to close a detention facility in Massachusetts that has held many people from Connecticut. When ICE arrests immigrants here, they’re sent out of state because ICE has no jail beds here.
Most have ended up at the Bristol County House of Correction, where there have long been reports of inhumane conditions, overcrowding and poor sanitation. Following an incident during the pandemic, Massachusetts authorities found that Bristol violated detainees’ civil rights.
Now ICE has been ordered to end its contract with the jail and stop working with Bristol officers on immigration enforcement.