Voices, The Peoples News
April 27, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
DHS Spox Touts ‘Major Success’ In Florida After Nabbing Nearly 800 Illegals In 4 Days. Tricia McLaughlin described the arrest records of some illegal immigrants arrested by ICE as part of “a large-scale operation” during an appearance on Fox News.
https://www.aol.com/dhs-spox-touts-major-success-020838833.html
Trump’s New Defense For Violating Immigration Orders: A Different Agency Did It
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/04/24/trumps-new-defense-for-violating-immigration-orders-a-different-agency-did-it/
ICE deports three U.S. citizen children to Honduras. Three U.S. citizen children were deported to Honduras from Louisiana, sparking national outrage and prompting a U.S. District Judge to criticize the deportation process.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n16Ej34pS1A
ICE makes insane number of illegal migrant arrests in one swoop during stunning blitzkrieg
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14652069/ICE-illegal-migrant-arrests-blitzkrieg-Florida.html
ICE planning dramatic detention expansion as it tries to deport 1 million people annually. Private prison company CEO calls $45 billion detention expansion plans ‘exciting’ as President Trump ramps up deportations
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/25/trump-contractors-ice-detentions-deportations/83250623007/
Trump admin rips 4-year-old cancer patient from her mother and deports US citizen kids. The deportation of children along with their undocumented parents has raised serious questions about who the administration is targeting during it’s mass deportation efforts
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/trump-admin-rips-4-year-35125837
US judge temporarily stops west Texas immigrant deportations under Alien Enemies Act
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-trump-texas-venezuela-a2b8e109b98c4ff62ac7719614056ac3
Venezuela accuses El Salvador president of ‘human trafficking.’ Venezuela’s attorney general accused Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele of “human trafficking” and suggested he face international justice for accepting cash to jail deportees from the United States.
https://www.barrons.com/news/venezuela-accuses-el-salvador-president-of-human-trafficking-e4ab35f1
Trump team may have violated another judge’s order by moving Venezuelan to Texas for deportation. Administration appears to have bucked yet another court order as officials prepare for more removals under the Alien Enemies Act
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-deport-texas-court-order-b2739003.html
Border Patrol, Mexican government dismantle cartel lookout posts: Solar panels and radios were critical tools for cartel lookouts stationed in the desert to spy on Border Patrol movements, guide smugglers through gaps along the Arizona border. But this joint operation sent a loud message: Cartels can set up shop, but the U.S. and Mexico will tear it down.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/cartels/border-patrol-mexican-government-cartel-lookouts/
The Kafkaesque Case of Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez Is a Warning to Us All. In a clear case of racial profiling, immigration police in Florida unlawfully arrested and held a US-born citizen.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-kafkaesque-case-of-juan-carlos-lopez-gomez-is-a-warning-to-us-all/
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
Lawmakers want to know why DOGE is building a database of sensitive Social Security info. Whistleblower information suggests DOGE is “rapidly, haphazardly, and unlawfully” making changes at the Social Security Administration.
https://www.scrippsnews.com/science-and-tech/data-privacy-and-cybersecurity/lawmakers-want-to-know-why-doge-is-building-a-database-of-sensitive-social-security-info
Musk’s team started by searching for cost-savings in federal government. Today they are DOGE the immigrant hunters. In the last few months DOGE has pursued immigration-related data across the Justice Department, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/doge-elon-musk-immigration-data-b2738847.html
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Elon Musk Is Shutting Down The Government Loan Office That Gave Him The Money To Grow Tesla
https://www.jalopnik.com/1843586/elon-musk-doe-cuts-tesla/
China foreign minister says US tariffs show “extreme egoism.” “Certain countries” resort to “pressure and coercion, and trigger unjustified trade wars. This extreme selfishness only harms their credibility.”
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/trade-war-tariffs-china-hits-out-extreme-selfishness-us-trump-5091491
How Trump Is Helping Price Gougers Exploit His Tariffs. Emboldened by the new administration’s regulatory reprieve, “price optimization” consultants are showing corporations how to weaponize import levies to fleece consumers.
https://www.levernews.com/how-trump-is-helping-price-gougers-exploit-his-tariffs/
Crypto Scams Are Exploding, And There’s No Plan To Protect You. New data reveals Americans lost a record $9.3 billion to cryptocurrency fraud last year, yet the government has no unified strategy for combating online scams.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/02/26/crypto-scams-are-costing-people-millions-heres-how/
# Education / Schools / Libraries / Museums
Smithsonian begins removing exhibits, artifacts from African American History Museum. It comes a month after President Trump’s executive order to remove what he calls “improper ideology” from Smithsonian museums.
https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/washington-dc/smithsonian-begins-removing-exhibits-artifacts-from-african-american-history-museum/
Civil rights leader says artifacts were removed from Smithsonian’s Museum of African American History. Full interview with the Rev. Amos Brown, after a crucial Civil Rights Era artifact was removed from the Museum of African American History and Culture. [Video]
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/black-history/civil-rights-museum-of-african-americna-history-trump-administration/65-34b205a3-8763-48ce-9aa3-a8bacb71e926
Three judges, including two Trump appointees, rule against the Department of Education’s anti-DEI policy
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-education-department-from-enforcing-dei-orders-00307831
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Automaker’s Tariff Plan: Cut Jobs And Pay Off Wall Street. Stellantis laid off a thousand U.S. workers in response to tariffs, then authorized billions in shareholder payouts.
https://www.levernews.com/automakers-tariff-plan-cut-jobs-and-pay-off-wall-street/
Buffalo hotel workers are facing off with a Trump-aligned developer in their battle to unionize.
https://truthout.org/articles/buffalo-is-a-union-town-but-for-hotel-workers-union-busting-runs-rampant/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Grid-Scale Battery Storage Is Quietly Revolutionizing the Energy System. This energy storage technology is harnessing the potential of solar and wind power—and its deployment is growing exponentially.
https://www.wired.com/story/grid-scale-battery-storage-is-quietly-revolutionizing-the-energy-system/
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Report: Trump Administration Considers Attacking Six National Monuments for Energy Development. The monuments comprise over 5 million acres of national public lands across the west
https://earthjustice.org/press/2025/report-trump-administration-considers-attacking-six-national-monuments-for-energy-development
# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
FEMA Memo Recommends Denying Disaster Declarations For All Snowstorms. The memo, authored by acting FEMA administrator Cameron Hamilton, aligns with President Donald Trump’s executive order to shift disaster response responsibilities from the federal government to individual states.
https://www.iheart.com/content/2025-04-25-fema-memo-recommends-denying-disaster-declarations-for-all-snowstorms/
Trump officials discuss making it much harder to qualify for federal disaster assistance, starting this hurricane season
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/politics/fema-aid-disaster-assistance-memo/index.html
Trump denies aid for Arkansas after storms that killed more than 40 people. Latest denial of disaster funding comes as Trump has repeatedly stated he wants to eliminate Fema
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/trump-denies-aid-arkansas-tornados
# Food General News
Walmart CEO issues stark two-week warning over prices and ’empty shelves’ as customers brace for new fees. Tea, avocados, sneakers, home furniture, bananas, video games, clothes, toys, and foreign-made cars are all expected to become much more expensive under Trump’s trade plan. “Even if it’s made in the USA, they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs,”
https://www.the-sun.com/money/14095700/walmart-ceo-doug-mcmillon-tariffs-trump-prices/
‘Time Is Of The Essence’: USDA Threatens Mexico Over Fast-Moving Flesh Eating Fly. AgSec Brooke Rollins threatened Saturday to restrict Mexican animal exports if they don’t allow the U.S. to help eradicate a deadly flesh eating insect outbreak.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/26/usda-mexico-brooke-rollins-flesh-eating-fly-new-world-screwworm-darien-gap/
Government enacts emergency food law to rein in soaring prices — and it could set off a global chain reaction. If successful, this could turn an emergency into a commercial opportunity.
https://www.thecooldown.com/sustainable-food/japan-staple-food-production-law-farming/
# General News
Trump admin brainstorms aggressive tactics to clear homeless camps in cities and forcibly hospitalize people, report claims. Justice Department asks employees for ideas on how to ‘more efficiently shift chronic vagrants away from the public square and into a more concentrated space’ to better deploy services
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-clear-homeless-encampments-mental-illness-b2740126.html
Trump Refused to Give Biden Air Force One Ride to Pope’s Funeral. Trump said that a meeting with Biden during the trip to Italy was “not high on my list.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-refuses-biden-air-force-145829857.html
Trump Gets Called Out in Front of Millions at Pope’s Funeral. In 2016, Pope Francis had criticized Trump’s proposed border wall, stating that “a person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.”
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/trump-called-out-by-cardinal-at-popes-funeral-who-is-giovannibattistare-article-151507001
‘100-year timeframe’: how Project 2025 is guiding Trump’s attack on government
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/26/trump-project-2025-book
Ossoff: Trump’s recent actions ‘should chill us to the bone.’ “I think it’s clear. We have never seen a president try to wield the federal government to crush his critics and political adversaries. That’s something new in American history, and it is, in my view, un-American.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5269706-ossoff-trumps-recent-actions-should-chill-us-to-the-bone/
“Soft Launching A Fascist Dictatorship Is Insane” — People Are Floored By Donald Trump Selling “Trump 2028” Hats On His Official Store Website
https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelabramwell/reactions-to-trump-selling-trump-2028-hats
# Gov / Politics
‘America can no longer be the same’: Trump unleashes tirade on what courts won’t ‘allow’
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-courts-wont-allow-tirade/
New Report: Human Rights Organizations Urge United Nations to Address U.S. Violations of Free Expression, Calling Global Attention to Entrenching Authoritarianism
https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/new-report-human-rights-organizations-urge-united-nations-address
# Gov / Politics / Global
Shocked by US peace proposal, Ukrainians say they will not accept any formal surrender of Crimea
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-crimea-peace-talks-concession-58de3cf0bd289e2e2377a9e4914285c0
# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
The gap in crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and U.S. natives is huge. New study suggests we need to rethink our attitudes on immigration.
https://www.upworthy.com/the-gap-in-crime-rates-between-undocumented-immigrants-legal-immigrants-and-us-natives-is-huge
Trump fires nearly all investigators of firefighter deaths, ProPublica reports
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/doge-elon-musk-immigration-data-b2738847.html
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Donald Trump went after one of America’s top law firms. Its decision to fight back took just two hours. The Conservative Lawyer Defending a Firm from Donald Trump. Paul Clement complained that Big Law was becoming “increasingly woke.” Now he’s defending one firm’s right to do just that.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/persons-of-interest/the-conservative-lawyer-defending-a-firm-from-donald-trump
The FBI mistakenly raided their Atlanta home. Now the Supreme Court will hear their lawsuit
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-fbi-raid-supreme-court-lawsuit-9cb55aa6f45bbf02c29d84363c7c9e6f
# Medicare / Medicaid
Mark Cuban Says Health Insurance Shouldn’t Exist. Mark Cuban isn’t interested in patching up the healthcare system with duct tape and buzzwords. He wants to rip it open, throw it under a spotlight, and ask what a lot of Americans are already thinking: Why is this entire industry allowed to operate in complete darkness?
http://blog.riskmanagers.us/mark-cuban-says-health-insurance-shouldnt-exist/
# Medical / Health News
Trump to end $56 million grant to give Narcan to first responders to help save lives during an overdose. Narcan, known generically as naloxone, is a nasal spray that works to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose in two to three minutes
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-narcan-overdose-grant-b2739727.html
It Pays Well To Deny Coverage. As Cigna fights off a lawsuit claiming it systematically denied patients coverage, the health insurance giant just paid a departing executive $10 million in severance.
https://www.levernews.com/it-pays-well-to-deny-coverage/
# Military / DOD / General News
Hegseth Fires Dozens of Pentagon Advisory Board Members, Cites Need for ‘Fresh Thinking’ to ‘Drive Bold Change’
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-dismisses-pentagon-advisory-board-members-f72ae662
# Pharmaceuticals
Tariffs on Pharmaceuticals May Be the Next Front in Trump’s War on Public Health. Trump and his commerce secretary are threatening to make medications more expensive by slapping tariffs on them.
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5265790-pharmaceutical-tariffs-national-security/
# Security / Surveillance / Cybersecurity
Rights Groups Detail ‘Authoritarian’ Reality of US Surveillance in Report to UN: Trump is weaponizing a high-tech surveillance state in violation of international human rights law, experts say.
https://truthout.org/articles/rights-groups-detail-authoritarian-reality-of-us-surveillance-in-report-to-un/
# Social / Social Programs / SNAP [Food Stamps]
Trump admin demands crackdown on illegal immigrants’ use of taxpayer-funded food stamps
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/25/usda-makes-it-tougher-for-illegals-to-get-food-stamps/
AZ’s U.S. senators sign onto letter urging SSA field offices to remain open. The letter to Leland Dudek, acting commissioner of the SSA, signed by more than 100 Congressional Democrats, notes that field offices “provide vital services” to Social Security recipients and adds that “beneficiaries need the opportunity to seek assistance” in person.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/arizona/article_fbd8e787-cab4-45ad-ab5f-6c080f781597.html
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