On today’s show: The Washington Post’s Silvia Foster-Frau explains why lawyers worry that migrants sent to Guantánamo Bay are in a “legal black hole.” The Wall Street Journal’s Brian Schwartz examines the role of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and why Trump has turned his attention to it. The Trump administration negotiated the release of Marc Fogel, an American teacher imprisoned in Russia. NBC News details how the move plays into larger talks about ending the war in Ukraine. Plus, Trump insisted the U.S. will take over Gaza during a meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah, flu cases surged to a 15-year high, and women actors have reached parity with men in Hollywood. Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.
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Good morning. It's Wednesday, February 12th. I'm Shamita Basu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, why President Trump and Elon Musk want to gut an agency that protects consumers, American teacher Mark Fogel's been released from Russia, and Hollywood hits a promising gender parity milestone.
But first, just over a week ago, a military aircraft carrying around three dozen detained migrants departed for Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. naval base in Cuba. Officials with the Trump administration say these migrants are dangerous criminals, describing them as, quote, the worst of the worst. But right now, we don't have a way of verifying that.
We know very little about who's been sent there, how long they'll be kept at Guantanamo, or the crimes they're accused of committing. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told CNN over the weekend that the administration intends to move people slated for deportation quickly in and out.
My goal is that people are not in these facilities for weeks and months. My goal is that there's a short-term stay. They're able to go incarcerate them, take them, follow the process, and get them back to their country.
But Sylvia Foster-Frau, immigration reporter for The Washington Post, has been talking to some human rights lawyers who say they are troubled by what little they've learned so far.
They have not been able to make contact with these immigrants and make sure that they have legal access. And according to them, because they're coming from the U.S., all due process rights go with them now to where they're being taken in Guantanamo. And really, in general, there's so little that any of us know about who these people are, what their immigration status is.
Do they have a history of violent crime or was their only crime crossing the border?
Fosterfrau told us where these migrants are being housed at Guantanamo also has lawyers concerned.
They're actually being held on the side owned by the Defense Department. That's a military prison.
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