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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Federal agents continue expanding their deportation operations as they move to fulfill President Trump's promises on illegal immigration, carrying out raids across the country. Resistance by immigrant rights groups is also growing, as we hear from NPR's Adrian Florido.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and partner agencies have reported raids to pick up hundreds of immigrants in Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, San Diego, Miami and many other cities. ICE says it's targeting potentially dangerous criminal aliens. Its press releases highlight arrests of people convicted or wanted for crimes like extortion, homicide, domestic violence and narcotics violations.
But advocates say it's also getting people who pose no threat. In Atlanta, activists reported immigrants with pending asylum claims were rounded up. In Puerto Rico, the ACLU said ICE had detained people with legal status and no criminal history. Advocates have filed a raft of lawsuits to try to slow the deportation dragnet. Adrian Fledivo, NPR News, Los Angeles.
The acting U.S. Attorney General is moving to dismiss several prosecutors who investigated Donald Trump. NPR's Kerry Johnson reports on upheaval inside the Justice Department.
More than a dozen Justice Department officials who worked alongside Special Counsel Jack Smith have received firing notices, according to two sources inside the building. Acting Attorney General James McHenry wrote they could not be trusted in, quote, faithfully implementing the president's agenda. The termination letters were first reported by Fox News.
Trump campaigned on a promise of retribution, and his appointees to lead the DOJ and the FBI have talked about wanting to investigate the investigators. Jack Smith resigned before he could be fired, as did another senior national security lawyer. But many more career prosecutors and agents on his team remained on the job. Both cases against Trump were dropped after he won last year's election.
Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.
A number of Jewish groups say they will stop actively posting on the social media platform X. NPR's Jason DeRose reports the move comes because they see the platform as filled with what they call toxic speech.
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