Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Demands Daily Updates on Efforts to Return Wrongly Deported Man
“A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to provide daily updates on efforts to return a Maryland man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported to a Salvadoran prison. The administration is also facing legal challenges over its immigration policies, including ending Temporary Protected Status for migrants from Afghanistan and Cameroon. Additionally, five law firms agreed to provide free legal services to causes supported by President Trump.
Where Things Stand
Deported migrant: The Trump administration on Friday continued to pursue its stubborn fight against securing the freedom of a Maryland man it inadvertently deported to a Salvadoran prison last month despite a court order that expressly said he could remain in the United States. Judge Paula Zinis in a hearing in Federal District Court in Maryland demanded that the Justice Department provide her with daily updates on the White House’s progress in getting Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia back on U.S. soil. Read more ›
Law firms: Five more big law firms have made deals with President Trump to provide free legal services to causes he supports. Law firms are settling with the administration to head off executive orders that would make it difficult or impossible for them to represent clients with government business. Read more ›
Immigration change: Migrants from Afghanistan and Cameroon who had been staying in the United States legally will lose their temporary protection from deportation, the Homeland Security Department said Friday. The administration has targeted the program, known as Temporary Protected Status, as it cracks down on immigration. The effort could face legal challenges. Read more ›
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A federal judge on Friday declined to block the Trump administration from carrying out detention and deportation operations in houses of worship, finding that a coalition of more than two dozen religious organizations had not made a clear case that their spaces and congregants had become common targets.
The ruling stemmed from a lack of clarity about how President Trump’s promised mass deportation campaign has been carried out in practice since he took office.
Five more prominent law firms facing potential punitive action by President Trump reached deals on Friday with the White House to provide a total of $600 million in free legal services to causes supported by the president.
Four of the firms — Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, A&O Shearman and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett — each agreed to provide $125 million in pro bono or free legal work, according to Mr. Trump. A fifth firm, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, agreed to provide at least $100 million in pro bono work.
An immigration judge in Louisiana found on Friday that the Trump administration could deport Mahmoud Khalil, granting the government an early victory in its efforts to crack down on pro-Palestinian demonstrations on U.S. college campuses.
The ruling is far from the final word on whether Mr. Khalil, a Columbia University graduate and legal permanent resident, will be deported. His lawyers will continue their fight in Louisiana and New Jersey, arguing that he has been targeted for constitutionally protected speech.
In a speech broadcast to the Food and Drug Administration’s Maryland campus on Friday morning, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced himself as the nation’s health secretary with a meandering speech touching on everything from birds of prey to pollution in Lake Erie to the C.I.A.
Mr. Kennedy told the agency staff members, in the throes of losing 20 percent of their work force under his overhaul of the Health and Human Services Department, to boldly avoid the impulse to protect the corporations they regulate.
The Trump administration will end temporary protections for more than 10,000 people from Afghanistan and Cameroon, putting them on track for deportation in May and June, Department of Homeland Security officials said on Friday.
The people had been living in the United States legally under Temporary Protected Status, which is meant to shield migrants from being returned to countries facing conflict or natural disasters. People who have the protected status are also allowed to work in the United States.
The Justice Department, in an abrupt reversal, asked a federal judge late Thursday to release a former F.B.I. informant from prison pending appeal of his conviction on charges that he peddled misleading claims seized on by Trump allies to falsely accuse the Biden family of taking bribes.
A federal prosecutor in California filed the request, under orders from senior Justice Department officials in Washington, according to officials familiar with the situation. It is the latest in a series of moves to scrap or soften punishments against President Trump’s supporters, including members of the violent mob that attacked the Capitol.
Trump administration officials are recommending the elimination of the scientific research division at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, according to internal documents obtained by The New York Times and several people with knowledge of the situation.
The proposal from the Office of Management and Budget would abolish the Oceanic and Atmospheric Research office at NOAA, one of the world’s premiere Earth sciences research centers.
The Air Force Academy has stopped taking the race, gender or ethnicity of applicants into consideration, the Justice Department stated in a filing Friday responding to a lawsuit that accused the institution of discrimination for making class diversity a factor in its admissions process.
In the filing, Justice Department lawyers said that Gwendolyn R. DeFilippi, acting assistant secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, issued a memorandum in early February eliminating “quotas, objectives, and goals based on sex, race or ethnicity for organizational composition, academic admission, career fields, or class composition” from its admissions considerations.
Judge Paula Xinis is ordering the government to provide daily updates on the progress in the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador.
“We are going to make a record of everything the government is doing and not doing,” she said, breezing past objections from Drew Ensign, the lawyer for the government.
“The court’s deadlines are impractical,” Ensign said. He added that the government would comply with the Supreme Court’s order.
The hearing is over, after less than half an hour.
A Justice Department lawyer is quarreling with a federal judge in a court hearing in Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s case. The lawyer, Drew Ensign, said that the government was “not yet prepared to share” any information about Abrego Garcia.
“I’m not asking for state secrets,” Judge Paula Xinis responded.
She continued to press him roughly a dozen times on Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts and what steps the government has taken toward returning him to the U.S. after the order from the Supreme Court last night to do so. “Is anyone moving with any kind of speed to get to the bottom of this so I can get an answer?” she said.
Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma.
Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves.
The top federal prosecutor in New Jersey said she had directed lawyers in her office to investigate the state’s Democratic governor and attorney general over a statewide policy that limits how much help local police can provide federal immigration officers.
The prosecutor, Alina Habba, called the inquiry a “warning for everybody” in announcing it late Thursday during an appearance on Fox News. She said she was singling out Philip D. Murphy, the governor, and Matthew J. Platkin, the attorney general, for scrutiny.“
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