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Tracy Mumford

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1375 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up

In the last week, since an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good, thousands of people have been out in the streets in Minneapolis, protesting the killing and the immigration crackdown agents are carrying out there.

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up

At times, protesters have clashed with federal agents.

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up

There are now about 3,000 of them deployed there.

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up

Local and state officials have said that deployment is creating an unsafe situation, with agents shoving people, smashing car windows, and pulling drivers out of their vehicles.

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up

Clear.

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up

When asked about the situation and Trump's threat to use the Insurrection Act, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said they had been talking about it, but she said it would be up to Trump to decide what's next.

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up

Now, two other developments on the administration's immigration crackdown.

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up

A federal judge in Boston issued a new rebuke to the administration over its efforts to deport college students who demonstrated against Israel.

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up

Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, called President Trump an authoritarian and said the administration had violated free speech protections when it tried to deport international students who'd been protesting over the war in Gaza.

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up

The administration said it had the authority to do so under an obscure legal provision, claiming the students were a threat to American foreign policy.

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up

But in court yesterday, the judge said the deportation threats were an effort to, quote, twist the laws and pick off prominent activists to intimidate others.

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up

The judge said that next week he plans to issue a final order restricting the administration from deporting members of two academic groups that brought the case.

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up

And he said that going forward, the government will have to show that any deportations are not retaliation.

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up

And what's your reaction to that stunning admission?

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up

I accept their apologies.

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up

And I hope that based on this apology, I'm able to return back to my studies and also to be home with my parents.

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up

The Trump administration has made a rare admission.

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up

It said it made a mistake when it deported a college student who was trying to fly home for Thanksgiving.

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up

Nineteen-year-old Ani Lopez-Beloza, who was brought from Honduras to the U.S.

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up

when she was seven, was on her way to visit family in Texas when immigration agents detained her at the airport in Boston.