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President Donald Trump left Mike Waltz, who was ousted from his role as National Security Adviser Thursday, stranded on the tarmac as Air Force One took off. https://www.threads.com/@thedailybeast/post/DJIP_I_os9f?xmt=AQGzQKeNeEXPCL3IZIcgnP0s303BZ1W3o4ZRB84SmiPz6A
The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) on Threads

President Donald Trump left Mike Waltz, who was ousted from his role as National Security Adviser Thursday, stranded on the tarmac as Air Force One took off.

Threads
Trump, in front of his henchmen and woman, told us the horrifying reason why Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not back in the U.S. https://buff.ly/t4KJD5e
Trump told us the horrifying reason why Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not back in the U.S.

The Trump administration wants to send anyone it wants, including U.S. citizens, to foreign prisons. Keeping Abrego Garcia in El Salvador is key to that lawless plan.

Law Dork
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful. https://buff.ly/Gm3yIpI
Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

Bluesky Social
Harvard rejects Trump deal to avoid billions in funding cuts https://buff.ly/NMnPkNx
Trump admin freezes $2.2B in funding after university defies demands

Harvard is one of many elite universities for which the Trump administration is reviewing federal funding for research grants and other programs.

Axios
Congress Has Demanded Answers to ICE Detaining Americans. The Administration Has Responded With Silence. https://buff.ly/udFibJQ
Congress Has Demanded Answers to ICE Detaining Americans. The Administration Has Responded With Silence.

Amid increasing reports that U.S. citizens have been caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration dragnet, a dozen members of Congress have written to the government with pointed questions. None has received a reply.

ProPublica
The Week Ahead
April 13, 2025 https://buff.ly/pfshuC8
The Week Ahead

April 13, 2025

Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
The Internal Revenue Service has agreed to share the personal information of undocumented taxpayers with immigration authorities, a new court filing shows. "DHS can legally request return information relating to individuals under criminal investigation, and the IRS must provide it," according to the document. https://buff.ly/iGjdOMo
IRS agrees to share immigrants' data with ICE

The IRS has previously kept tax returns private, even for undocumented immigrants.

Axios
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched his campaign for the 2026 Senate race to challenge Sen. John Cornyn. https://buff.ly/VgNoBoL
“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights https://buff.ly/dE1wmDZ
“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights

The closure of the 150-person office, which protected the civil rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, strips Homeland Security of its internal guardrails as the Trump administration turns DHS into a mass-deportation machine, analysts say.

ProPublica