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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. A federal lawsuit in Maine alleges federal immigration agents are illegally surveilling and intimidating people who record them. NPR's Jude Jaffe Block reports the lawsuit accuses the Department of Homeland Security of violating the First Amendment.
Observers who take video of federal immigration operations say agents are recording their faces and license plates.
Chapter 2: What allegations are being made against federal immigration agents in Maine?
Colleen Fagan in Portland, Maine, filmed this exchange between herself and a federal agent last month after he seemed to record her license plate.
Why are you taking my information down? Because we have a nice little database.
And now you're considered a domestic terrorist, the agent said. Fagan has joined a federal class action lawsuit asking a judge to stop DHS from tracking observers and retaliating against them. DHS told NPR there is no database of domestic terrorists run by the agency, and its methods follow the U.S. Constitution. Jude Jaffeblock, NPR News.
President Trump honored Lakin Riley at the White House today and signed a proclamation declaring February 22nd as Angel Family Day. Riley was a nursing student who was killed two years ago by a Venezuelan national who was in the U.S. illegally. NPR's Deepa Shivaram has more.
Lakin Riley's family and others were invited to the White House as Trump signed the proclamation and took part in a remembrance ceremony. Her killing became synonymous with the administration's calls for tougher enforcement of immigration laws.
In his remarks, Trump weaved through multiple topics, including false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him and advocating for more voter ID requirements. The president also teased that he'll be giving a long speech tomorrow in his State of the Union address. Last year, Trump broke the record for the longest State of the Union address. He spoke for roughly 99 minutes.
Deepa Shivaram, NPR News.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to meet with leaders of Anthropic this week amid growing tensions. As NPR's Bobby Allen reports, the Pentagon says in order to remain a government contractor, the AI company must loosen its safeguards.
Anthropics Cloud is the only chatbot that can be used in classified settings, but the Pentagon is threatening to drop the service. And that's because Anthropic is drawing a red line. It says it will not allow its technology to be used for domestic surveillance and the deployment of autonomous lethal activities.
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Chapter 3: What was President Trump's proclamation regarding Angel Family Day?
There's a second library book in the collection, which the man says he'll return once he's done reading it. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.