Tovia Smith
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125 appearances
23 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 21 Apr
Tovia Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Citizenship and Immigration Services Anti Fraud Unit, according to the AP.
But the subpoenas are not signed by a judge.
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Trisha McLaughlin declined to comment on whether or how many subpoenas are being sent to landlords, saying in a statement to NPR that DHS would not comment on its tactics.
But she added, subpoenas don't need to be signed by a judge to be binding.
Failure to comply with an ICE issued administrative subpoena, she said.
May result in serious legal penalties.
Tovia Smith, NPR News.
U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg wrote there's significant evidence that many of the migrants are not members of a Venezuela gang, as alleged, and, quote, thus languish in a foreign prison on flimsy, even frivolous accusations. The U.S.
Supreme Court has affirmed migrants' rights to challenge their removal, and Boasberg says it's now up to the government to figure out how to, quote, make good the wrong done and grant the migrants due process, even as the government says they're officially in the custody of El Salvador.
The Trump administration had no immediate comment, but has previously called Boasberg's rulings an egregious abuse of the bench. Tovia Smith, NPR News.
Yeah, this is about Rasha Aloe, a kidney transplant doctor at a Brown University-affiliated medical group. She was here on an H-1B visa. That's the one meant for highly specialized workers. And she went to visit family in Lebanon. And when she returned, she was detained for 36 hours at Boston's Logan Airport and had her phone taken from her, according to her cousin.
Her cousin was the one who got the federal court order barring officials from sending her back. And apparently her lawyers even made a frantic call to the airport control tower trying to stop the plane she was on. But they say officials, quote, willfully disobeyed the judge's order and sent her back anyway. We expect to learn more shortly from government lawyers in federal court this morning.
But so far, we've got just a preview from a spokesperson who said that officials use rigorous screening to help keep threats out of the country, is how they put it.
Yeah, in this case, Fabian Schmidt was detained for days when he tried to return to Logan Airport from a trip to Europe, according to his family. And officials suggest it's because he faced misdemeanor drug and DUI charges about a decade ago, and he was a no-show. for a court hearing on his case. His family says that's because he never got the notice.
But in this case, also, relatives say that Schmidt was mistreated in custody, violently interrogated, was how his mother put it when she spoke to GBH reporter Sarah Bedecourt.
Officials say the claims are, quote, blatantly false without, however, saying specifically which claims. And they add, quote, when an individual is found with drug-related charges and tries to reenter the country, officers will take proper action, they said.
Yeah, this is being seen as Trump making good on one of his central campaign promises or threats, however you see it. And this was reiterated, by the way, by Border Czar Tom Homan just a few weeks ago when he specifically called out Boston for vowing to not help ICE enforcement officers.
Meantime, those who oppose the Trump administration's hardline stance are also fired up. There's a protest planned for this evening to support the doctor who was sent back to Lebanon. As, of course, there have been other protests, including many around the nation this weekend in support of the Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil. He was taken into custody by officials who say.
His campus protest activities basically amount to a national security threat because they, quote, align with Hamas, which is a U.S.-designated terrorist group.
Thank you.
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