Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Civil rights groups are asking a federal judge to block President Trump's immigration crackdown in Minnesota. NPR's Martin Costi says the complaint says officers are violating protesters' free speech rights.
The ACLU is suing the federal government on behalf of a number of people in the Twin Cities who say they were unconstitutionally threatened with arrest or actually detained.
Chapter 2: What immigration issues are civil rights groups addressing in Minnesota?
just for observing or questioning immigration enforcement officers. David Beer runs immigration studies at the Libertarian Cato Institute, and he says the ACLU lawsuit echoes what he's found in an analysis of bystander videos.
This is a systematic policy by the Department of Homeland Security. to threaten people who record their activities.
A federal judge has promised a quick decision on whether to issue a restraining order against such tactics. President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to counter protesters in the Twin Cities. Martin Kosti, NPR News.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado met with President Trump at the White House today. After the closed-door meeting, she told supporters, we can count on President Trump. Trump has said she does not have the support necessary to lead her country. The U.S. has seized another oil tanker in the Caribbean.
NPR's Aquil Lawrence reports the Trump administration says it will control all oil exports from Venezuela.
Marines and sailors boarded the motor tanker Veronica in a pre-dawn raid, according to U.S. Southern Command, in a post on social media that included a grainy video of troops dropping onto the ship from helicopters. Southcom said the operation went off without incident. After the U.S.
military attack that deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, President Trump says the United States will run that country and in particular take control of its massive oil reserves and continue to enforce an embargo on any other tankers attempting to ship oil from Venezuela. Trump said in an executive order last week that profits from the oil will benefit both the U.S.
and the Venezuelan people, but he has not yet explained how. Quill Lawrence, NPR News.
Gas prices have dropped to their lowest levels since 2021, but as NPR's Windsor Johnston reports, politics may have less to do with it than some claim.
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Chapter 3: How is the U.S. government involved in controlling Venezuelan oil exports?
I'm Ryland Barton. This is NPR News from Washington.