Voices, The Peoples News
April 15, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
New Stream Gauges and Weather Stations Poised to Help Wyoming Tribes Endure Flooding and Drought
https://www.drought.gov/case-study-wind-river-tribes-create-new-drought-monitoring-tools
# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
US orders mass exit of these migrants, asks them to leave ‘immediately’
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/migrate/us-orders-mass-exit-of-these-migrants-asks-them-to-leave-immediately/articleshow/120207612.cms?from=mdr
ICE has broad power to detain and arrest non citizens – but is still bound by constitutional limits. These warrants are administrative warrants signed by an immigration enforcement supervisor – not a judge.
https://theconversation.com/ice-has-broad-power-to-detain-and-arrest-noncitizens-but-is-still-bound-by-constitutional-limits-253700
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Trump says ‘home-grown’ Americans are next to go to El Salvador, tells Bukele ‘gotta build about five more places.’ After deporting foreign passport holders to notorious Central American prison, president hints US citizens could follow.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/15/trump-eyes-deportation-of-homegrown-criminals-to-el-salvador
# Border / Immigration / General News
Trump floats deporting ‘homegrown criminals’ to El Salvador. Asked Salvadoran President to build more prisons for Americans. It would likely be a violation of the U.S. Constitution for the administration to send any native-born citizen forcibly into an overseas prison, as part of being a citizen means you cannot be forcibly sent to another country.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/trump-american-criminals-el-salvador-us-citizens/
Every Part of This ICE Arrest Is Horrific—Especially the Location. Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student leader at Columbia University, was arrested in a trap set by federal immigration agents.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193975/ice-arrest-mohsen-mahdawi-citizenship-appointment
State Department Memo on Abducted Tufts Student Exposes Rubio’s Lies. Here’s the truth about the evidence against Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/state-department-memo-abducted-tufts-155240509.html
US and El Salvador Celebrate Their Refusal to Return Man Wrongly Deported to ‘Gulag.’ Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and Donald Trump called a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador a “terrorist.” They say they cannot bring him back.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/trump-bukele-el-salvador-prison-return-men-kilmar-abrego-garcia-meeting-cecot/
Trump, Bukele say they won’t return deported man to US. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said Monday that he has no plans to return a Maryland man wrongfully deported to a prison in his country, “Of course I’m not going to do it.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5247965-trump-bukele-mistakenly-deported-man/
Lawmakers push to meet with Salvadoran president to plead case of mistakenly deported man
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5247824-bukele-van-hollen-espaillat-washington-meeting/
Stephen Miller contradicts DOJ court docs on man mistakenly deported. The only mistake that was made is a lawyer put an incorrect line in a legal filing that’s since been relieved. He is El Salvadorian. He is an illegal alien. He was deported to El Salvador,” Miller told reporters at the White House on Monday. Robert Cerna, the acting field office director for enforcement and removal operations at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, wrote in a declaration filed last month, “Through administrative error, Abrego-Garcia was removed from the United States to El Salvador. This was an oversight.” “He was put on administrative leave by Todd Blanche.”
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5248143-stephen-miller-doj-man-mistakenly-deported/
‘Full-Blown Constitutional Crisis’ Deepens as Bukele Refuses to Release Maryland Resident, “If this holds,” said one critic, “there is no law but Trump’s law.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-bukele
Why were 6,300 migrants moved to Social Security’s ‘death’ list? The request from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to place the migrants on the “Ineligible Master File” maintained by the SSA would bar migrants from receiving benefits or being able to work in the United States.
https://www.borderreport.com/news/trump-administration-adds-immigrant-social-security-numbers-to-death-list-in-deportation-push/
‘People are feeling betrayed’: They paid taxes in good faith and now fear it could lead to their deportation
https://madison365.com/people-are-feeling-betrayed-they-paid-taxes-in-good-faith-and-now-fear-it-could-lead-to-their-deportation/
Trump pledges to deport ‘Hamas sympathisers’ on college campuses. Council on American-Islamic Relations accuses US president of smearing students opposing genocide in Gaza.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/30/trump-pledges-to-deport-hamas-sympathisers-on-college-campuses
Let us be 100 percent clear: It is illegal to deport someone for political speech.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-floats-legally-questionable-proposal-deport-us-citizens-rcna201183
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
A bigger hole: Trump has already spent $155bn more than Biden. Musk now claims DOGE only saved $150bn
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/musk-trump-bigger-debt-150-billion-b2733310.html
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
Brace for More Trump Tariffs and Chaos. You are not exempt from being confused.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-possible-tech-auto-exemptions-in-focus-as-trump-team-sows-confusion-191201321.html
Budget group says the actual federal debt is $158.6 trillion. As Americans file their taxes at the last minute this April 15, the federal debt – and Americans’ federal debt burden – continues to grow.
https://www.cbs19news.com/budget-group-says-the-actual-federal-debt-is-158-6-trillion/article_45341bdc-942e-5103-ab9a-d17db7c6eac5.html
‘I Don’t Know What’s in His Head’: Republican Senator Says Trump ‘Has Not Given One Clear Rational’ for Tariffs
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/i-dont-know-whats-in-his-head-republican-senator-says-trump-has-not-given-one-clear-rational-for-tariffs/
Common goods’ prices to rise soon? Jassy said the proposed tariffs by the Trump administration could lead to higher costs. These increases would likely be passed on to buyers.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/common-goods-prices-to-rise-soon-heres-what-amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-warns-about/articleshow/120212071.cms?from=mdr
Increasing tariffs makes U.S. recession more likely, effect of policy may be ‘hard to reverse’ if maintained for too long
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/trump-tariffs-higher-prices-us-recession-jp-morgan-jamie-dimon
# Education / Schools / Librarys
Harvard University announces it won’t surrender to Trump. Despite billions in funding at risk, Harvard President Alan Garber said the university would not bend to the government’s demands.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/harvard-university-announces-won-t-195135503.html
Trump Wants to End Head Start While Boosting Military Spending to Record $1 Trillion. “Young learners and families around the country rely on Head Start and eliminating funding for this essential program would be devastating to local communities,” warned one critic.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-head-start
# Employment / Labor / Unions
A whistleblower’s disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research office and could fire more than 1,000 scientists and other employees who help provide the scientific foundation for rules safeguarding human health and ecosystems from environmental pollutants.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/us/national/news/2025/03/18/epa-cuts-scientific-research-doge-trump-administration
# Gov / Politics
The two tipping points for when we officially become a dictatorship could occur this week:
1. The first way the Trump regime openly becomes a dictatorship is by directly defying a Supreme Court order.
2. The second way we officially become a dictatorship is if the Trump regime can accuse any American citizen of being so dangerous as to justify being sent to a foreign prison, without any independent court reviewing the regime’s evidence.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-two-tipping-points-for-when-we
Rhetoric is heating up over Ukraine again with President Volodymyr Zelensky casting President Donald Trump as taken in by Russian narratives – a suggestion dismissed by Vice President JD Vance.
https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-clarifies-stance-russia-zelensky-absurd-2059774
Could Trump’s Intentions Ignite a Superpowers Clash over Earth’s Largest Island? Greenland is the world’s largest island, strategically located in the Arctic between America and Europe. Despite its small population it holds immense geopolitical prominence due to its untapped energy potential, including oil, natural gas, and critical minerals. Its proximity to emerging Arctic shipping routes and role as a hub for military operations and Arctic surveillance further amplifies its strategic value.
https://www.chinausfocus.com/peace-security/could-trumps-intentions-ignite-a-superpowers-clash-over-earths-largest-island
The Rise of the Far Right and the Domestication of the War on Terror
https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/130719768.pdf
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
You Can’t Seriously Be Shocked That Big Law Caved to Trump. They defend fossil fuel corporations, tobacco giants, Wall Street criminals, and the pharmaceutical firms responsible for the opioid crisis. So of course they folded to Trump like a cheap suit.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193971/big-law-firms-cave-trump-immoral-work
# Media / Press / Mail
Trump calls on FCC chair to impose ‘maximum fines and punishment’ on Paramount’s CBS over 60 Minutes. Trump moves to assert full control over independent agencies
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-calls-fcc-chair-impose-141216451.html
# Medical / Health News
MRI Scans Causing Nasty Material to Form Inside Body, Scientists Find. New research suggests that MRI with contrast may create nanoparticles that infiltrate your tissues.
https://www.prevention.com/health/a64409209/scientists-nanoparticles-toxic-metal-mri-humans-study/
# Military / DOD / General News
Fears over extremism in US military as soldier revealed as neo-Nazi TikTok follower. US army investigates after young private follows the Base, which has vowed to recruit soldiers for so-called race war. Experts say examples like this shows how Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon is allowing extremism to go unchecked.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/14/us-military-extremism-the-base
If US and Iran Clash, This Remote Island May be the First to Fight
https://www.newsweek.com/if-us-iran-clash-this-remote-base-could-first-fight-2059688
Is The U.S. About To Go To War With Iran? The U.S. is pouring military assets into the Middle East as Trump’s deadline for Iran to come to the negotiating table fast approaches.
https://www.twz.com/air/is-the-u-s-about-to-go-to-war-with-iran
Iran: Background and U.S. Policy: In 2024, the Islamic Republic of Iran faced military and strategic setbacks, largely at the hands of Israel and the United States, that appear to dramatically diminish advantages and leverage Tehran had built up through years of investment.
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R47321
# Military Weaponry / Biological Weapons
The “Sprint” anti-ballistic missile unlocked new speed levels for a weapon but was retired after only one year. Though it worked well, the system active for a brief time. Changes in defense policy led to its cancellation
https://www.newsbreak.com/war-history-online-1745274/3961042602625-the-sprint-anti-ballistic-missile-unlocked-new-speed-levels-for-a-weapon-but-was-retired-after-only-one-year
# Military / General News / Global
How China’s Military is Quietly Gaining Control of the Pacific. China has quietly extended its military reach far across the Pacific by building dozens of ports, airports, and communications projects at key points in a vast region that could shut out the United States and its allies in the event of war,
https://www.newsweek.com/china-south-pacific-strategic-dual-use-infrastructure-us-military-2059048
# NASA / Space
Documents reveal Trump’s plan to gut funding for Nasa and climate science. Critics say Nasa faces ‘extinction-level event’ with budget plan, with climate research funding also to be slashed
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/11/trump-climate-science-nasa-noaa-cuts
# NOAA / Weather
White House outlines plan to gut NOAA, smother climate research. The agency’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research would be “eliminated as a line office,” according to a memo from the Office of Management and Budget.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/white-house-plan-guts-noaa-climate-research-00286408
# Pharmaceuticals
The Trump administration disclosed Monday that it had opened an investigation into the effects on national security of importing certain pharmaceuticals, a move widely seen as the prelude to initiating tariffs on prescription drugs.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5248629-white-house-pharma-semiconductor-tariffs/
# Science / Science Engineers
Congressional Democrats Assail Trump’s Plans for Deep Cuts to Government Science. With NOAA and NASA, two key climate research agencies, in the cross-hairs, Maryland officials see a privatization plan in the works.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14042025/congress-democrats-speak-against-trump-government-science-cuts/
# Social / Social Programs
Social Security Press Releases
https://www.ssa.gov/news/press/releases/
HHS Systems Are in Danger of Collapsing, Workers Say. The purging staff at the Department of Health and Human Services could threaten the systems used by the agency’s staff and the safety of critical health data.
https://www.rawstory.com/hhs-data-in-danger-of-a-possible-collapse-after-staff-purge-report/
Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments will be suspended for those who don’t comply with this mandatory step in the process — resulting in delays for millions. Starting this year, all beneficiaries of Social Security retirement and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments will have to comply with a mandatory account transition or risk having their monthly payments halted
https://www.themirror.com/money/social-security-payments-suspended-retirees-1092510
Social Security’s trust fund could run out of money due to changes in taxes and benefits. As an economist who studies the Social Security system, I am alarmed that Democratic and Republican administrations alike have failed for more than three decades to take the actions necessary to keep its funding on track, either by raising taxes or cutting benefits.
https://www.caledonianrecord.com/opinion/conversation/social-security-s-trust-fund-could-run-out-of-money-sooner-than-expected-due-to/article_45ae946f-7795-57b6-831c-ce9e48b3d3f0.html
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