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NPR News: 02-27-2025 6PM EST
Immigration authorities say the 1,000-bed facility known as Delaney Hall will be the first new detention center to open during President Trump's second term. The facility, which is just a short drive from Manhattan, had previously operated as a detention center until 2017. Its reopening will dramatically increase the amount of detention capacity in the Northeast for U.S.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Limited detention space has been one of the obstacles facing the White House as it tries to ramp up immigration enforcement. The GEO Group, which owns the privately operated detention center, predicts it could generate as much as a billion dollars in revenue over the 15-year contract with ICE. Joel Rose, NPR News.
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No matter how many studies you do showing that this is not a problem, it's very hard to unring the bell.
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The federal lawsuit accuses the city of Chicago, state of Illinois, and Cook County of, quote, deliberately impeding, unquote, immigration officers. making it harder for them to detain immigrants who don't have legal status. This is the first of what could be many Justice Department lawsuits targeting cities and states that limit their cooperation with U.S. immigration and customs enforcement.
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During the first Trump administration, the DOJ tried to withhold funding from those jurisdictions. but the cities and states were often able to defeat those efforts in court. Chicago and other cities argue that collaborating with ICE would drain their resources and undermine trust between police and immigrant communities. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
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President Trump picked a career ICE official, Caleb Vitello, as the acting head of the agency. Now Vitello has been removed from that post, according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. though he will remain at ICE, leading the office that's responsible for arrests and deportations.
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ICE arrests are up compared to the previous administration, but not enough to satisfy the White House. President Trump promised during the campaign to build the biggest deportation operation in U.S. history. Administration officials have said they want to see at least 1,200 immigration arrests per day nationwide, but ICE field offices have been falling well short of those goals.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is leading the effort to remove the wreckage of the plane and helicopter from the river. Colonel Francis Pera is the commander of the Corps of Engineers Baltimore District. Pera says the recovery of the remaining victims takes precedence over everything else.
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Federal investigators are still trying to understand why the Black Hawk helicopter collided with a passenger jet that was attempting to land. It was the deadliest aviation disaster in the U.S. in more than two decades. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
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The Federal Aviation Administration will limit helicopter flights on routes along the Potomac River between the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and the Memorial Bridge, two of the major spans that serve the region, and over the airport itself. The FAA says helicopter traffic near the airport will be restricted but not completely suspended.
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There are exemptions for medical emergency flights, active law enforcement and air defense, or presidential support missions that must operate in the restricted area. The restrictions come as investigators continue to pour over an area of the Potomac River where the two aircraft went down. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
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War Plans Group Chat, Alien Enemies Act, U.S. Greenland Visit
This is a three-judge panel from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and it was hearing an appeal from the Trump administration of a lower court's ruling, The district court judge in that case has temporarily blocked the administration from deporting anyone under the Alien Enemies Act, which has only been used three times in U.S. history, all when the country was actively at war.
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The Trump administration argues it should apply here as well because of the threat posed by the Venezuelan gang Trend de Aragua, which the administration has designated as a foreign terrorist organization.
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In an order yesterday, the judge reaffirmed his temporary restraining order on the grounds that these Venezuelan migrants have not gotten due process, had no meaningful chance to argue that they are not members of this notorious gang.
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One appeals court judge in particular seemed also very concerned about these due process questions. Judge Patricia Millett, who was appointed by Barack Obama. This law was used most recently during World War II. And even then, Millett said, detained Germans had a chance to fight their deportations, unlike these Venezuelans today.
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You know, the Justice Department's lawyer disputed the Nazi analogy and said that some of these Venezuelan men have, in fact, been able to fight their removal. But Judge Millett questioned whether the other 200 migrants who were deported had any chance to do that. She said, we don't have any record of whether these people were gang members or victims of the gang.
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The White House says it is confident that all of those deported are violent gang members, but the administration has also conceded in legal filings that many do not have criminal records in the U.S. Immigrant advocates contend many are actually not gang members at all, but have been targeted because they have tattoos.
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The Justice Department's lawyer argued that the district court judge overstepped by inserting the court into foreign policy and never should have issued his order in the first place. Here's Drew Ensign from the Justice Department.
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Ensign also spent a lot of time arguing that immigrant advocates brought basically the wrong kind of lawsuit and should have challenged this individual cases in Texas where these deportation flights originated. We don't know when this panel will rule, but it could be soon.
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Yeah, on a separate legal track, the Trump administration has told U.S. District Judge James Boasberg last night that it is invoking the state secret's privilege and will continue to not give him key information about those flights, including departure times and other operational details.
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Boasberg has been pushing the administration to explain whether it defied his orders when it allowed deportation flights to continue last weekend. He has said in court that he will get to the bottom of whether his order was violated.
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D.C. Plane Crash, Migrant Housing At Guantanamo, January 6th Criminal Records
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D.C. Plane Crash, Migrant Housing At Guantanamo, January 6th Criminal Records
The collision happened as an American Airlines regional jet was attempting to land just before 9 p.m. local time. This was American flight number 5342 from Wichita, Kansas. on a narrow-body plane, a CRJ-700 built by Bombardier, with 60 passengers on board and four crew members. It was lining up to land at the airport, as you say, when it collided at low altitude with a U.S.
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Army Black Hawk helicopter. The Army says there were three soldiers on board. Footage from a webcam in the vicinity shows a small aircraft, presumably the helicopter, colliding with the passenger jet, followed by a bright explosion before both aircraft then crashed into the Potomac River.
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Yeah, first responders were on the scene within 10 minutes, according to D.C. Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly. He said about 300 first responders were involved in search and rescue operations in icy water that was about eight feet deep.
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Donnelly said search and rescue operations would continue this morning and the airport will remain closed until at least 11 a.m.
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Authorities would not say at the briefing early this morning. But at this point, there is not a lot of reason for optimism. Both of Kansas' U.S. senators were at Reagan Airport for a briefing this morning. Senator Roger Marshall called it an unbearable sorrow. Senator Jerry Moran said it was very likely that the senators would personally know some of the people on the plane.
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U.S. Figure Skating has confirmed that several members of the skating community were on board the flight, including athletes, coaches, family members who were returning home after the recent U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita.
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No official word on that yet. It's very early in the investigation. I will say this is highly congested airspace with a lot of helicopters and air traffic at the airport.
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Investigators at the National Transportation Safety Board are leading this investigation, and they will likely be trying to understand the communications between air traffic controllers and the two aircraft, particularly the helicopter. There is some audio recordings of those communications, but What happened here is just not clear yet.
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Those recordings could be a focus for investigators as they try to understand what appears to be the worst aviation disaster in U.S. airspace in at least 15 years.
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The Long Shadow of Duterte's Drug War
I'm Joel Ariate. I'm a university researcher of the Third World Study Center.
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The Long Shadow of Duterte's Drug War
It's utterly untrue under the Marcos administration. I mean, the average is from 0.8 to 0.9 killing a day, meaning one Filipino gets killed a day. And In the first quarter of 2024, we've counted 75 killings, and that's for 73 days. So there's even a bit of a surge there.
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Because we're the only one left counting, so might as well continue.
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The Long Shadow of Duterte's Drug War
No, because I have some friends in the media and they tried asking data from the Philippine National Police. Actually, we got into a bit of trouble with the police because we're issuing particular numbers and they're denying it.
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Tariffs Come Due, Chopper Traffic After Crash
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board say they have recovered the black box from the helicopter. In this case, that is a combined voice and data recorder, and now they will try to extract that information from it. And if that works, it should tell them a lot about what was happening in the moments before the collision on Wednesday night.
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But board members have been emphatic that they will not speculate and will wait until they have all the facts before drawing any conclusions. Here's board member Todd Inman at a briefing yesterday evening.
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Inman did not mention President Trump by name, but it was hard not to see the sharp contrast after the president claimed this week that diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at the Federal Aviation Administration were to blame, while also acknowledging that he had no direct evidence linking DEI to the crash.
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There are a lot of questions focusing on that US Army Black Hawk helicopter and whether it was in the right place. There is growing evidence that it was not, based on NPR's analysis of flight data, along with new video footage that circulated yesterday of the collision, which show the helicopter out of the flight corridor where it was supposed to be operating.
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Instead, it was well out over the Potomac River when it collided with the plane. Sources tell NPR it was also flying above the 200-foot ceiling that it was required to maintain.
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Yes, several outlets have reported on an internal FAA report that says an air traffic controller was doing double duty in two separate positions at the time of the collision because staffing was lower than normal for that time. NPR has not been able to confirm that independently. The head of the air traffic controller's union says it is not uncommon to combine positions like that.
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The NTSB says staffing is something they are looking at, not just at the moment of the collision, but in the days and weeks leading up to it. The board says they have begun interviewing the controllers who were on duty that night. But again, board member Inman did not want to speculate on whether that was a factor in the collision.
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The FAA will limit helicopter flights on routes along the Potomac River near the airport as well as over the airport itself. And Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that would help secure the airspace and restore public trust. The FAA says helicopter traffic will be restricted but not completely suspended.
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There will be exemptions, for example, for medical emergency flights, for law enforcement activity, and VIP movements. And investigators continue to pore over that area of the river where the two aircraft went down. The victims included the flight crew, three soldiers, competitive figure skaters from the U.S. and Russia, a civil rights lawyer, and dozens of others.
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Authorities say they have located many bodies so far, but they say they will keep looking until they have found all of them.
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Global Markets Plummet, Wrongful Deportation Deadline, Second Measles Death
Yeah, the Trump administration has admitted that he was deported by mistake because of what they describe as an administrative error. Abrego Garcia had been living in Maryland for over a decade. He has a form of legal protection known as withholding of removal. In spite of that, ICE officers arrested Abrego Garcia last month, and a few days later, he was deported to El Salvador along with
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hundreds of other men accused of being gang members. But the Justice Department argues there is nothing they can do now because Abrego Garcia is already out of the U.S. Federal District Judge Paula Zines rejected that argument. She found that his arrest was, quote, wholly lawless. His ongoing detention in Salvador in prison, quote, shocks the conscience. She noted that the U.S.
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is paying El Salvador to hold these prisoners, and she ordered the Trump administration to bring him back to Maryland by midnight tonight. All right. What has the Trump administration said? They are not backing down. The White House insists that Abrego Garcia is a member of the Salvadoran gang called MS-13, though his lawyers deny that.
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They say that allegation dates back to the time he was arrested in 2019 in the parking lot of a Home Depot. His lawyers say the gang allegation is based largely on a confidential informant who accused Abrego Garcia of being a member of the gang in New York, which is a state where he has never lived. Abrego Garcia's lawyers say he has no criminal record in any country.
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Nevertheless, the White House has doubled down, calling Abrego Garcia a leader in MS-13 and a convicted gang member. But if the Trump administration has evidence to support that, they have not put it on the record in this case. Judge Zini said during the hearing that without any evidence, like a criminal indictment or complaint, these gang allegations are just quote-unquote chatter.
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This is remarkable. The Justice Department lawyer, Erez Riveni, argued the case on Friday. Riveni has argued many cases on immigration for administrations of both parties, and he had some very candid answers for Judge Zini's. The judge asked him why the administration... did not try to return Abrego Garcia to the U.S. when they first learned about this mistake.
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Ruveni said he had asked his clients inside the Trump administration the very same thing, and that, quote, I have not received to date an answer that I find satisfactory. The next day, he was put on administrative leave by the Justice Department. Here is Attorney General Pam Bondi explaining why yesterday on Fox News Sunday.
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So, Joel, what what happens now? The Justice Department is appealing. They argue that courts do not have jurisdiction over this case because Abrego Garcia is in the custody of El Salvador. And essentially, there is nothing that Judge Ziniz can do. The Justice Department is asking the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals for an emergency stay.
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But if they do not get one, that midnight deadline will still be in place. And then the big question is whether they will comply with it.
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Justice Department Shakeup, Guantanamo Migrants Lawsuit, Immigration Crackdown Poll
Hey, Laila.
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Justice Department Shakeup, Guantanamo Migrants Lawsuit, Immigration Crackdown Poll
The results are kind of a mixed bag. On the one hand, we do see support for tougher restrictions. For example, President Trump's call for mass deportations of all immigrants in the U.S. without legal status That was one of his big campaign promises. We see a plurality of Americans support that, 44% in favor to 42% against.
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But when you dig down into the details of how that might be accomplished, that support erodes pretty quickly. I talked to Mallory Newell. She's a vice president at Ipsos, which conducted this poll. Here is her take on what is happening.
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Take some of the more hardline Trump administration proposals, for example, detaining migrants at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, as we were just discussing, or allowing immigration authorities to make arrests in schools and churches. Those proposals still have a lot of support from Republicans, but they were broadly unpopular in this poll with Democrats and even with many independents.
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Yeah, this NPR Ipsos poll shows that Republicans, for the most part, are very united in support of the president's crackdown. Four out of five support deporting all immigrants without legal status. Three out of four support denying federal funding to sanctuary cities that limit their cooperation with immigration authorities. And a big majority of Republicans say the U.S.
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has been experiencing an invasion at the southern border. I talked to Thomas Dunkelberger. He is a longtime Republican voter from Holland, Michigan.
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Democrats, on the other hand, are opposed to basically all of President Trump's immigration crackdown, but especially his push to end birthright citizenship for children of immigrants who do not have permanent legal status in the U.S. Democrats also are opposed to challenging sanctuary cities, and they don't like a proposal to allow the U.S. military to make arrests and deport migrants.
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Some of these proposals are being challenged in federal court, including the proposal on birthright citizenship, which is blocked, at least for now.
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Yeah, I think there are a couple of things that stand out. Take the border wall, for example. We started asking in 2018 about expanding the wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico border. Back then, only 38 percent of Americans supported that. Now it's up to nearly half. At the same time, we have seen a steady erosion of support for DREAMers.
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These are immigrants without legal status who were brought to the country as children. When we first started asking, almost two-thirds of poll respondents favored a path to legal status for DREAMers. In our most recent poll, that support fell below 50% for the first time.
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Yeah, those are some significant shifts, and I think they do tell you something about the mood in the country right now.
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Tariff Fears, Trump Budget Plan Passes House, Deportation Ruling
Good morning, Michelle.
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His name is Kilmar Abrego-Garcia. He had been living in Maryland for over a decade. He had a form of protected status that should have prevented his deportation to El Salvador. In spite of that, ICE officers arrested Abrego-Garcia last month and deported him to El Salvador. along with hundreds of other men the Trump administration also accuses of being gang members. Abrego Garcia denies that.
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The government says he was deported to El Salvador because of an administrative error, but argued there is nothing it can do now because Abrego Garcia was already out of the U.S. A federal district judge rejected that argument. She ordered that he be brought back to Maryland quickly. But Chief Justice John Roberts put that order on hold while the Supreme Court could consider the case.
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The court issued a brief unsigned order. It's interesting to note that there were no dissents, although there was a statement from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by the court's other two liberals, calling this an egregious violation of Abrego Garcia's rights.
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The court said that the government must now facilitate Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador and handle his case as it would have been handled if he had not been improperly sent there. That part is a win for Abrego Garcia, but the justices also had some instructions for the district court judge,
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They told her to clarify the meaning of the word effectuate when she ordered the Trump administration to effectuate Abrego-Garcia's return. The justices said the scope of that term is unclear and that it might exceed the lower court's authority when it comes to foreign policy.
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She already has. Late last night, Judge Polizini's issued a new revised order clarifying that the government needs to take, quote, all steps to facilitate the return of Abrego-Garcia, unquote, to the U.S. as soon as possible. Zines wants to know his current physical location and status, what steps the government has taken to bring him back, and what additional steps they are considering.
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And she's called a hearing for later today in Maryland. So Judge Zines is not wasting any time.
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller did post about the case on social media last night. He framed this as a rejection of the judge's order because the Supreme Court said that lower courts cannot dictate foreign policy. Miller claimed that it is El Salvador that is holding Abrego Garcia, not the U.S. government.
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So at this moment, it is not clear exactly when or if Abrego Garcia will be coming back to the U.S.
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Yeah, this is the case of Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia graduate student and lawful permanent resident who was arrested and detained by ICE last month because of his pro-Palestinian activism. Here, the Trump administration has argued that Khalil has engaged in, quote, anti-Semitic and destructive protests. And for that, he should be stripped of his green card and deported.
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His lawyer says that's a violation of the First Amendment. And the immigration judge says she'll decide today whether there's enough evidence to deport him or not.