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1.23.25 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the reading of Today's Washington Post for Thursday,
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January the twenty third of twenty twenty five. Your readers
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are Ye and Alliston. There was a reminder that RADIOI
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is a reading service for those blind or have other
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difficulties holding or reading printed material. And across the very
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top of the paper, Trump Hagg's asylum will deploy more troops.
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That's in kat well bowl type in big black letters.
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And on the very left side of the paper underneath
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orders place federal workers in bullseye on edge by Emily Davies,
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Matt Weiser, and Michael Brice Sadler. To the far right,
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emergency cow is invoked at border just the beginning, Acting
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Defense chief says by Nick Murov, Dan Lamouth, Maria Satchetti
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and Marianne Levine. And between the two of those is
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a picture of a border wall with someone leaning on
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a post looking very weary. There is no caption underneath it. Well,
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yes it is from the top and the solemn seeker
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in Sinada. Luarez, Mexico reacts to news this week that
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her appointment and all further appointments from the US Customs
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and Voter Protection up have been canceled, and below that,
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in a smaller picture, she is wrapped in a blanket
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with a heavy hat on and behind her it's a
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brownish Tannish colors. And behind her a facing the other
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way is a man in a good heavy winter coat
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with a fur hat on the back. Above Dak is
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a National Guardsman in ego past Texas at the border
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crossing on the Rio Grande, and he looks towards that,
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and he's got a big tank beside him with a
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little bit of camouflage on the front, but he's just
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staring across the Rio grand Below the fold on the
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left scary Terry McLaren has plenty of reasons to celebrate
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one never wanted to show both Commander Star debuts pair
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of signature movies, and that's by Sam Fortier. And then,
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decades after her abuse, a call leads to a confession.
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This is by Emma Uber and there is a picture
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of Stephan who came forward about her childhood sexual abuse
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that expand years at a barn in Great Pall, Virginia.
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All you sees in her back and her long hair
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insid after king her secret since age eleven, she was
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coming forward to make the report said it was cathartic
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about making her report, so Gareth will start off.
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Speaker 2: Okay. The head Ryan is. Trump targeted federal.
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Speaker 3: Workers in his opening Act, starting with THEEI employees. President
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Donald Trump signed a flurry of executive orders aimed at
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overhauling federal workforce, but the details were determined who was
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affected and how. Darnicle is by Aaron Davis, Matt Weiser,
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and Michael Rice Sadler. It's Michelle Wright six. President Donald
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Trump targeted federal workers in an opening act aimed at
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exerting political control over as fall into breocracy, putting federal diversity,
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equity and inclusion employees on leave, fanning remote work, and
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stripping employment protections from civil service. The news, which came
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in rapid succession during Trump's first forty eight hours as president,
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seek to fulfill a campaign problem on pledge and a
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rallying crime on conservatives to crack down a program that
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they consider unnecessary and exclusionary. DEI, the acronym for diversity,
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equity and inclusion that Trump uses in a derisve way,
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has long been a focused some of his senior advisors,
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such as Stephen Miller, now his stadut A chief staffs.
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Trump's on Tuesday ordered all employees who's.
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Speaker 2: Worked to focus on DEEI and michigkids should be placed
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on leaves no. Leading five pm Wednesday yesterday, and on
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Wednesday he revoked the sixty year old executive order banning
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discriminations and hiring practice in the federal government. Some acting
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agency heads started enacting the guidance multiple directors Wednesday, telling
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staff but all DEI offices of closing and mandating employees
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report instances where government workers were trying to disguise programs
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by using coded or their size language. According to emails
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obtained by The Washington Post, the White House did not
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respond to questions about how many of the two point
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three million federal employees were affected by his order. Federal
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Workers meanwhile or scrambling to make sense of the discreet
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which may apply differently to each agency depending on the
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person in charge, and define print of union contracts, the
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return to the office executive order in particular, listified employees
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and the supervisors who are trying to parse whether it
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also affects telework, which is when employees who are based
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in all the work from home to night. Trump issued
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executive order google searching for federal workers returned to office,
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despite by more than six hundred percent, with the most
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interest in the DC region, where fifteen per second federal
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workers are based. One longtime federal worker who has a
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disability accommodation allows her to work from home. Fisher had
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no idea whether the INN Officer Homan applies to her.
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She cited the order which said agency has could consider
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exemptions they deem necessary. I'm assuming that hope means Meg said.
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Trump has now rescinded much of what former President Joe
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by the federal workforce during his time in office, continuing
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eight years to policy ping pong between the two leaders.
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Towards the end of his first term, Trump signed an
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executive order that ban federal contractors from conducting anti bias training.
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Even quickly descended that order took office and fromoted diversity
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in equity programs among federal government offices and manfacturers. Trump's
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borders immediately trigated respects from unions and democratic willmakers through
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a vow dequite the changes it characterized as excidential existential
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threats to democracy. The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents
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federal government employees in thirty seven agencies, and departments sued
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Trump late Monday over his order that makes a leisure
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to fire career civil service and replace them with political loyalists.
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The American Federation of Government Employees the AFG, the largest
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unions representing federal workers, filed a separate laws that within
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minutes of Trump's inauguration, claiming billionaire Elon Muss Department of
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Government Efficiency violates federal transparency Unions, the group twitch Trump
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created and handed off to the TESLA CEOs, designed cut
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regulations to reduce government staff and overhaul destruction of the
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federal geocracy. As far as I'm concerned, this is where
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I put my legal hat on. They knew that they
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need to sue the s out of him. Representative Jamie Crockett,
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Democratic Texas set of Trump in an interview, it's time
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for those unions to get letitious. He loves to go
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to court. He hates losing, but he tends to leave
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more than he wins in court. Crockett's boke directed to
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federal workers, my message is don't quit, stay where you are.
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Make them fires must by his social media platform Excellent, Wednesday,
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called Trump's decision to send the order banning discrimination in
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harm Pact's massive He has also voted the support for
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banning remote work and replacing civil servants with political loyalists,
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Still lawmakers and researchers saying they're a legal obsers to
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Swiss implementation. Trump's orders stripping employment protections from many career
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federal officers, which the White House that is quote necessary
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to reign in what Trump and his allies have called
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a quote deep state of bureaucrats. It's likely to be
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installed by a Biden administration regulation. I am going to
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insist that these measures not take place unless President Trump
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jumps through all the hoops and goes through all the
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hoops in the right order, said Senator Tim King, Democratic Virginia,
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who represents about one hundred and forty thousand federal workers.
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Representative Jerry Conman, Democrat of Virginia, who has for years
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introduced bills to protect the civil service, blame the Biden administration,
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sailing to push through legislation to permanently block Trump and
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create job categories that convert career positions to political owners.
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Trump originally tried to do at the end of his
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first tournament. Now we are paying price. Well. I think
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this poor judgment in the previous administration. In this one
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realm set bustle Boss Trump's nominee to lead the Office
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of Management and Budget Senate hearing on Wednesday, side step
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questions about the rights of work was fired under the
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Trump's mules for schedule out the classification that were removed
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protections from civil service the schedule efforts. A different classification
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box setting was asked for a question that work was
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fired under the classifications would have the due processes right
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granted the civil service and is meant to ensure that
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the president's administration has people working for him who are
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actually going to do the policy. He ran on and
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email to employees at the Education Department on Wednesday advised
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that all DEI officers were closing and all DEI related
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contracts were determining. These programs divided Americans by race, waste
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a tax payo dollars every resulted and shameful discrimination. New
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chief of Staff racial overness remote Benjamin Huffman, acting Secretary
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for the Department of Homeland Security, the agency responsible for
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public Security, on Monday, terminated all current memberships on advisory
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committees within the agency effective immediatement. He also ordered all
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employees to immediate report to work in person and mandated
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their managers submit reports of those who did not with
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documented justification within thirty days. According to an email memo
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came by the Post, a memo from the Secretary of
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State Marco Rudio or in state department officials that they
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will face adverse consequences if they fail to report if
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they fail to report on colleagues who have concealed or
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obscured existing DEO programs at that department. The administration is
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aware of efforts by Southern government to disguise these programs.
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The memo said there will be no adverse consequences for
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time in reporting this information. However, failure to report this
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information within ten days may result in adverse consequences. A
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Trump's intentions to further politicize the federal workforce only increase
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the partisan divide. Some Democrats are previously express support for
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the new administration's plan to increase in person works across
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the DC region. The pandemic and proliferation of remote work
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of reach having on commercial quarters for proving especially devastating
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in Washington, where around the corner of the workforce consists
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of federal government employees and office vacancies that threatened the
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city's long term financial health. CC Mayor of Burial email
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Democrats for several years bore divide administration to direct federal
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workers back the offices downtown or else transfer underutilized property
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to the city for more profective uses, such as retailer housing.
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The administration issued guidance in twenty twenty three that instructed
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agencies to assess policies around remote work that stops short
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of the landing. Brows was set down with Trump at
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bar Largo last month and what she called a great meeting.
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She said they discussed rators for collaboration, which included changes
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to the federal workforce. The mayor issue to statement Monday
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night expressing support for the return to office mandate. Today,
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she said, I am optimistic of my focusing on our
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shared priorities with President Trump, whether it is keeping DC
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safe and clean, truck bringing workers back to our downtown.
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We will continue to deliver for GC and the American public.
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The district, because of its limited home room, has little
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power of for GOP intervenion of Trump, Republicans, and Congress
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challenged city law. Still, Trump's anti remote work proposal is
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likely to rankle some federal workers in the DC region
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with teleworking arrangements. At twenty twenty three, to Washington Post
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Sharg school Hall found a large majority of people in
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the DC region with jobs that can be done remotely
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said that they would refer to most of the work
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from home they have offered a choice. Everett Kelly, president
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of the Federal Union, said in a statement that Trump's
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director to ban remote work would make it harder for
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federal agencies to compete for top talent, rather than undoing
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decades of progress and workplace policies independent in both employees
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and their employers. I encourage the Trump administration to rethink
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its approach and focus on what it can do to
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make government programs work better to the American people industries.
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Some local officials have focused on Trump's threat to move
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federal agencies outside the DC region, but he has not
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yet made good on wanting that the move would devastate
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local economies and the grave quality of government services. This
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discover about trying to transfer operations for other parts of
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the country. They could also have a very harmful effect
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from the following the services delivered to the American people.
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Senator Chris Van Holland Democratic, Maryland. Even with the uncertainty,
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the government, workers say they are bracing for changes. One
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teleworking employee at the Federal Emergency Management Agency says she
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was shell shocked in Tuesday meeting when the agency ordered
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working back into the office by February the twenty first,
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and the parent directly from the Department of Homeland Security.
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My department in FEMA doesn't have enough seats for everyone.
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We were already tell working two days a week before,
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COVID said. The employee was based in Silver Spring, Maryland,
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and spoke on the condition of anonymity because she was
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not authorized to speak publicly. She said the GC office
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lacks base for everyone, which she notices most when the
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agency hosts all meeting on those days before you said,
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some workers were forced to work from a break room
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or classroom justifying the seat al thank you.
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Speaker 1: On the right hand side of the front page, underneath
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that big, bold black headline is the article Trump shuts
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off access to a solemn plans to send ten thousand
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troops to Borler. A briefing document provides an early glimpse
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into the real world application of Trump's executive orders on
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immigration and the border, and above that is the picture
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I described to you about the woman ringing on the
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post and her warmer clothes by Nicknoff, Dan Lamont, Malias
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as Chetty, and Mary Anne Levine. President Donald Trump is
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preparing is send around ten thousand troops to the Southern
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Voter where they will support voter patrol agents under new
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orders to shut off access to a solemn According to
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a US Customs and Voter Protection briefing document obtained by
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The Washington Post, the order directs voter agents to carry
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and block entry to migrants on the grounds that they
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have passed through countries where communicable diseases are present, without
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citing any specific health threat. The Defense Department will send
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at least fifteen hundred additional active duty ground troops to
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the Southern Voter in what could be the first of
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several waves of deployments, said Acting Defense Secretary Robert Celess.
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Those forces will boaster of a twenty five hundred who
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already were there. To duty. Troops will pilot military planes
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to assist the Department of Homeland Security in deporting mike
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Onanes who already are in detention, with DHS providing law
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enforcement on those flights. Celesis said this is just the beginning,
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he said in a statement Wednesday evening. The CPB briefing,
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delivered Tuesday to senior staff at the agency's headquarters in
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Washington by newly appointed Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks, instructs
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US agents to use an extraordinary emergency authority to close
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the border. The only two Border Patrol officials who can
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authorize the release of an asylum seeker into the United
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States with a pending humanitarian plane are Banks and his deputy.
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The briefing document is an early lamps into the real
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world application of the fuselage of executive orders Trump issued
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Monday and their translation into field guidance for the Voter
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Patrol's nineteen thousand agents. The White Pace did not immediately
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respond to a request for comment. During the coronavirus pandemic,
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the Trump administration used an emergency public health law to
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close off ASYLEMN access at US voters. This time, Trump
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officials have not cited a specific disease, instead invoking emergency
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authorities with the argument that migrants could be carrying any
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transmissible illness. The planning document calls for leveraging the government's
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full authority under a section of the Immigration and Nationality
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Act that grants the president broad powers to suspend the
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entry of certain non citizens into the United States. A
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separate executive order Trump issued Monday declared a national emergency
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at the southern border and instructed the Pentagon to support
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c BP by sending troops, drones, and other assets while
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resuming border wall construction. Border patrol agents have been directed
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to hold any non Mexican migrant from deportation via air
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rather than attempting to return them to Mexico. This document
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state those orders are expected to result in a significant
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increase in the number of detainees held in CBP custody
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over the coming weeks. According to the CBP briefing documents,
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US Immigration and Customs Enforcements is preparing to more than
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double its detention capacity while opening four new ten thousand
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bed facilities and fourteen smaller sites with space for seven
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hundred to one thousand people. The Defense Department may also
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utilize military bases as holding facility. The document says Trump
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officials have told doormakers lawmakers they will need billions of
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dollars in additional funding to meet the president's deportation goals.
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By ramping up ice detention capacity, Canada will be asked
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to accept migrants who cross imdebally as well its states.
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CDP is holding about fifty five hundred detainees who recently
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crossed the southern border at its stations and temporary sites.
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The number of migrants taken into custody has fallen since
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Trump's inauguration. According to preliminary enforcement data. On Tuesday, Trump's
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first full day in office, about eight hundred migrants were
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taken into custody along the US Mexico voter down from
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a daily average of thirteen hundred during the week before
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Trump's inauguration. Voter patrol public information officers have been directed
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to highlight the agency's muscular deployment in deterrent, denoying, detecting,
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and interdictions at the border. The document states, US officiers,
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who describes the initial military build up, first reported as CNN,
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said the personnel, including about one thousand soldiers and five
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hundred marines, will be added to the roughly twenty five
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hundred who already were deployed there under the Biden administration.
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Discussions are underway to send thousands more send one US
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or similar with the process felike others spoke on the
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condition of an immunity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
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In a briefing at the Pentagon on Wednesday, Evening, senior
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officials total reporters that the deployments approved Wednesday are an
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initial step and likely to be followed by more. The
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mission could go into ten thousand, but it is too
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soon to say what ultimately is needed, they said. The
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military personnel assigned to the border mission will have an
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array of missions, but nothing involving law enforcement unless it
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is determined later that it is necessary. The official said
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their early asserments will include building additional areas to slow
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entry to the United States, and echoed the first Trump administration,
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when active duty forces deployed to the board and spent
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days bringing razor wire for hundreds of miles. The number
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of US military personnel on the border then blew to
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a bed eighty twenty eighteen before eventually shrieking. The Trump
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administration also will look into bolster surveillance efforts on the
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border with the military. That effort could include additional manned
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or unmanned aircraft. As senior military official said, Trump administration
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officials are carrying out his campaign promises at breakneck speed,
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directing the nation's most powerful agencies. The Justice Department whol
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aimed Security and Defense to prioritize immigration and voter enforcement.
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Some officials plunged into the work with Gusto. Admiral Calvin Lunday,
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the Coastguard's new acting declared Tuesday night that he had
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directed these operational commanders to immediately surge cutters, aircraft, boats,
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and special forces to the US maritime borders. He said
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he sought to blockation and Cuban migration by sea from
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the Southeast, patrol the seas around Alaska, and to support
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border agents in the Gulf of America. Lunday was referring
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to the Gulf of Mexico. Trump on Monday signed in
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executive order giving the Interior Secretary thirty days to rename
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the area the Gulf of America. To gather in coordination
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with their Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense teammates,
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we will detect, detour, detour, and interdict illegal migration, drug smuggling,
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and other terror arister a hostile activity before it reaches
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their border, Lunday said in a statement. Also, the Justice
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Department ordered a federal contractor to halt programs that offered
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free legal guidance to immigrants facing deportation, including detained adults, families,
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and children. According to the contractor, the Acacia Center for Justice,
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a Washington based nonprofit, immigrants aren't entitled to public defenders
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in immigration court. One of the halted programs provided the
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legal representation to unaccompanied children released from US custody. A
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spokeswoman for DOJ's immigration courts declined to comment. Trump's top
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policy adviser, Stephen Miller, huddled with Senate Republicans on Wednesday
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of a military deployment and the urgent need to expand
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immigration detention. According to Senate that Kevin Kramer, Republican of
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North Dakota, Krimis said the goal of sending troops is
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to achieve one hundred percent operational control of the boards.
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Lawmakers have expressed frustration about the number of dot aways
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in recent years, referring to people who have crossed illegally
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without being apprehended. We don't just sort of accept a
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certain number of gotaways, Kramer said. US Republicans said last
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year that there were two million gotaways under Biden. Homeland
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Security officials said last week that it had reduced the
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estimated number about sixty percent. From physical twenty twenty three
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to twenty twenty four. C BP got away estimates are
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based on the number of crossing migrantes detected by ITS
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senses and surveillance cameras who are not taken into custody.
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Anna Nagas and contributed to this report LOO back to You.
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Speaker 2: Continuing in the same pain, headline reads Department of Justice
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threatens to prosecute local officials over immigration enforcement. The US
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attorney's offices were told to investigate any official who defies
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federal immigration enforcement efforts and consider prosecuting bil. The article
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is by Maria Sacchetti and Jeremy Roebuck. The Trump administration
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has directed federal prosecutors nationwide to investigate and potentially bring
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criminal charges against the state and local officials who don't
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cooperate both the president's plans to carry out NASS importations.
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According to a document obtained by The Washington Post and
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a memo to the Justice Department employees late Tuesday, acting
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Deputy Attorney General Emil Beauvet wrote that the supremacy cause
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of Constitution and other legal authorities quote require state to
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local actors to comply with the Executive Grant's immigration enforcement initiatives.
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He ordered the US attorney's offices across the country to
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investigate any official who defies those efforts and consider prosecuting
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them on charge of that, if they're convicted, to send
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them to prison. Federal law or pivots state and local
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actors from resisting, obstructing, an otherwise failing to comply with
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lawful immigration related commands. Through a Brouvet, a former freederal
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prosecutor who spent recent years in private practice and was
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one of Donald Trump's defense lawyers in his criminal cases.
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The Justice Department spokesperson confirmed that the memo was sent
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out on Tuesday night, but otherwise to clind to comment.
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In a separate memo on Wednesday, the agency's new leadership
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announced a different but significant change in the Civil Rights Division,
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halting any litigation or related actions in cases left over
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from the Biden administration. The free seems to jeopardize police
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reform agreements to the Joices Department negotiated in recent Muncil
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of cities including Minneapolis, Louisville, Memphis, loot Based directly responds
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to immigration executive orders Trump's signed on his first day
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in office and aim to supercharge enforcement. The MAMA was
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likely to face fears of rowback from legal acts, and
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groups of officials in cities and states with sanctuary policies
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that frustrated the president's vass deportation plans during his first term.
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New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Cleckin responded Wenesdon by
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saying his state would continue to ensure that vironment criminals
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were subjected to immigration enforcement while making sure that other
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immigrants feel comfortable reporting crimes without fear of being important.
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My approach is based on well settled New Jersey and
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federal law, considertive statement, and I will always always stand
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up for the rule of law. The member of reference
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the newly established Sanctuary City's Enforcement Working Group, which will
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work within the Justice Department to vote take legal action
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against state and local policies they clash with the administration's
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immigration enforcement goal. At least two senior career officers have
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been transferred from their department's NACKED to Security division to
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that new office since Trump was sworn in. The Justice
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Department directive also addresses a long shimmering conflict between immigration
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and customs enforcement agency that detains and supports immigrants, and
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state and local law enforcement over federal deportation proceedings. ICE
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prefers to address arrest immigrants for possible deportation after police
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have booked them for an alleged crime, even if it's
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a minor offense, such as shop list, sanctuary policies and
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danger of federal agents by requiring them to make the
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rest in communities, officials say, and expose otherwise law abiding
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immigrants to arrest if they share homes with fugitives. But
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over the years, local agencies and elected officials have faced
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criticism for a learning ICE about the team immigrants, or
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holding those individuals longer than needed so the federal importation
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agents can pick them up. Critics say local agencies should
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not help support minor offenders or people whose criminal charges
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were dismissed, and they point out that immigration offenses are civil,
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not a criminal. Trump administration officials say deporting criminals will
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be a top priority for immigration agents, as it was
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for Biden's administration, with a key difference being the Trump
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has said that he could remove them events who haven't
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committed crimes. By sense that there are nearly six hundred
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and fifty thousand immigrants with varying criminal histories whom the
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agency is monitoring but is not retained. Some have they
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serious criminal charges, others very minor wores, including those people.
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The agency is monitoring more than seven million individuals who
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are not in as customers. That greeage Justice Department minimal
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does not say that enforcement effort will focus only on criminals.
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It does frame immigration enforcement as a national security imperative,
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saying transitional transnational games, undocumented immigrants, and defending all crisis
33:43
are endangering American city. Studies show that there is little
33:47
to no evidence that immigrants, including those who are undocumented,
33:51
commit more crimes than US citizens born in this country.
33:56
During Trump's first administration, the Justice Department soughts hold federal
34:00
funding from sanctuary cities to pressure them to abandon their policies.
34:06
Several cities, including Chicago, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles, soon in
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one a string of court rulers declaring the restrictions illegal.
34:14
The loials courts they should conflicting decisions. Trump officials ultimately
34:19
conditioned some Justice Department grants on cooperating ice the president.
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They shooed a fresh boarder this week instructing agencies to
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ensure that sanctuary jurist predictions do not receive access through
34:34
federal fund. American First Legal, a conservative organization founded by
34:40
longtime Trump immigration advisor Steven Miller, said input sanctuary cities
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unknowns for their one notice in December that they could
34:49
face prosecution if they failed to detain immigrants for ICE.
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Miller is now Trump's deconty Chief of Staff of Policy,
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directing immigration enforcement and other key much of the president's
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agenda from the White House. The letters from America First
35:04
Legal went to two hundred and forty nine elected officials
35:08
across the United States, including California Attorney General Wobblin bone Top,
35:15
Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonald, and Plankin, the Attorney
35:20
generally in Jersey. The nonprofit organization created a website to
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track what it considers sanctuary jurisdictions and publish contact information
35:30
for elected officials. It said of violent as the law
35:34
in Union this week, planking and his state, like many
35:38
other localities, worked with ICE to facilitate the removal of
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serious criminals. He said a NASS deportation campaign could lead
35:46
to the removal of law biding, business leaders, law enforcement
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personnel who did not have permanent rebel STRATEUSY, or people
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brought to the United States as children. One of the
35:56
greatest laws that anyone has provided sanctuary introverters and read
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Alackman said, to get the kind of numbers of removal
36:04
that he's talking about, you would have to remove people
36:06
who have done nothing wrong in the station. While there
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is no single definition of the sanctuary jurisdiction, hundreds of
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communities have passed ordinance or laws to limit cooperation a vice.
36:17
According to the Immigration Legal Resource Center for San Francisco
36:21
based nonprofit that has tracked the issue for years, some
36:26
refuse to share records, let immigration agents into their jails,
36:31
or to detain arrested immigrations after they immigrants after they
36:35
approached gail so the ice can pick them up. States
36:39
such as Saint Ruts Orangon, California, have passed sanctuary state
36:44
style law to protect immigrants, while other states, such as
36:48
Texas have banned centuary cities. Many layers say it is
36:53
legal for state and legal officials to opt out the
36:56
federal immigration enforcement since requests to detain immigrants are not
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federal warrants signed by a judge. City officials in Chicago
37:06
reaffirmed their refusal to cooperate with enforcement last week, and
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the rumors of inmit immigration rage in the city. Some
37:15
law enforcement officials say working with ICE destabilizes their communities
37:21
and makes immigrants afraid to report crimes. Police also worried
37:26
that they may be breaking the law by jailing people
37:29
for civil immigrations of instances. President Joe Biden had urged Congress,
37:34
without success, to grant the eleven million undocumented immigrants in
37:38
the United States and half the citizenship. However, Trump has
37:43
issued a string of executive orders is taking Monday that
37:47
can make them all vulnerable to importations. Trump has promised
37:51
to launch the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,
37:56
and his directed agencies across the federal government in the
38:00
Defense Department to make immigration enforcement a priority. The President
38:05
and his servitance have repeated and threatened through punt sanctuary,
38:09
and jurisdiction. The memo, both issued Tuesday, calls the instructed
38:15
federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the Bureau
38:18
of Prisons, to comb their file for any information that
38:22
might help identifying immigrants living only gave the United States,
38:26
and to share it within sixty days. Additionally, it detailed
38:31
a partial redeployment of anti terrorism and national security resources,
38:35
including the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forces forward assisting in
38:41
the execution of President Trump's immigration related initiatives. Those task
38:46
forces are made up of federal law enforcement agents and
38:49
deputized state and local authorities, some in conduction of cities
38:53
where police are prohibited by local law from participating in
38:57
immigration enforcement. Also announced as the department was rolled back
39:03
several Biden era charging policies and reading state guidance, first
39:08
issue by then Attorney General Jeff Sessions during Trump's first administration.
39:14
That guidance all prosecutors to preserve quote the most vicious,
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most serious, readily provable charges and criminal cases, and those
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that carry the most significant possible sentences. Alice an.
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Speaker 1: Exhausted and angry police attacked on January sixth, Watch pardons
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and worry. Now the same people officers sought to hold
39:47
accountable for storming the US capital in an attempt to
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subvert democracy are free. And there is picture of US
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Capital Police Sergeant Aguiano Danell, Metropolitan Police officer Daniel Hodges,
40:08
former DC Police officer Michael Fanone, and Capitol Police officer
40:14
Harry Dunn in twenty twenty two. Two have on uniforms
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and one dressed in a suit and tie, and the
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other in a jean jacket and jeans, and the two
40:29
uniform ones are looking at each other behind the guy
40:33
in jean's and the thought and they are smiling, but
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they are in serious situations. The article is by Peter
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Herman and Ellie Silvermaney. The calls kept coming. The defendant
40:51
you testified against is being released from the Department of Corrections,
40:56
The automated message said, according to former Capital the Police
40:59
Office Harry Done, each of those defendants. Done, he said,
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assaulted his former colleague, Sergeant Aquino Gunnell, who sent him
41:14
a screenshot of ten calls from the Justice Department that
41:17
began rolling in before the sun rose Tuesday, some just
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minutes apartments. Over the last four years, offices such as
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Done and Dunne had testified at trials into before congressional committees,
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at times facing the very people who made them fear
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for their lives. On January sixth, twenty twenty one, they
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endured attacks with hammers, knives, prepper spray, and law and
41:47
bear spray, sorry not pepper bear spray, and law enforcement's
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own shields as supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the
41:56
US Capital. The officers believed it to become their duty
42:01
to defend the truth of what they witnessed, as politicians
42:05
sought to dismiss or minimize the attack, which left more
42:09
than one hundred and forty officers wounded. Some who had
42:13
been there died in the weeks and months that followed.
42:19
Werness attacked DC Police officer Daniel Hodges, heard on a
42:24
viral video crying at him pain as a mob crushed him.
42:28
They dragged fellow officer Michael Fernone down the Capitol steps,
42:34
tazer herman beat him unconscious. He suffered a heart attack, concussion,
42:39
and traumatic brain injury as Gonalal fought off the attack.
42:44
As he toldal lawmakers, he recalled using linasing oxygen and
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thinking to himself, this is how I'm going to die
42:52
defending this inference. Now, the people they sought to hold
42:57
accountable for storming the US Capitol in an attempt to
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subvert democracy are free to them. Trump's decision to grant
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a blanket pardon on Monday evening to virtually all of
43:10
the nearly sixteen hundred January sixth defendants and to commute
43:15
the sentences of the remaining fourteen valorizes their attackers and
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seeks to recast the day in public memory, potentially involving
43:25
further political violence. I feel betrayed, Donald said in a statement.
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Despite what we all witnessed four years ago, the American
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people voted him back in office, and one of the
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first things that he does is pardon the criminals who
43:44
merely took my life. It's a desecration to our services
43:48
and the sacrifices made to keep everyone safe. As Trump
43:55
on Tuesday defended his decision to free the January sixth defendants,
44:00
whom he has termed hostages. Vernon, who went to a
44:04
courthouse in northern Virginia to pick up applications for protective
44:08
orders against his attackers. There is a complete lack of
44:12
empathy for the officers whose lives were destroyed for simply
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doing their jobs, said Fernond, who resigned from the d
44:20
C Police force a year after the riot and became
44:23
a celebrated advocate for officers harmed that day. Among those
44:29
released from federal prisons were Stuart Rodes and Enrique Tario,
44:36
leaders of the extremit groups oath Keepers and crowd Boys, respectively,
44:42
which played an outsize role in the capital of pack.
44:46
Tario was serving a twenty two year term for mobilizing
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an army to overturn the twenty twenty election Trump sauce
44:55
lost to keep him in power. Rhodes, who was sentenced
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to eight ten years, was at the Capitol meeting with
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members of Congress on Wednesday, seeking pardon for the oath
45:06
keepers and Trump excluded from the order issued Monday ninety
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and releases for those already pardoned. Asked in the Capitol
45:15
what he would say the police officer offended by the pardons,
45:19
Rhodes said they should recall their oath. Their oath is
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to the Constitution. He restated his claim that he did
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not receive a fair trial, and once again, I did
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not enter the Capitol. I didn't strike a police officer.
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None of my guys did either. We were railroaded for
45:38
political purposes because of who we were. I would tell
45:41
the cops because I didn't hurt a cop, why should
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I be imprisoned for eighteen years before the partying office,
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President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons for members of the
45:53
January sixth committee that conducted Congressional hearings leading the Trump's
45:58
impeachment by the House. During the first term, and the
46:01
police officers who testified at the same time Trump's picked
46:06
to leave the FBI. Cash Betel has publicly floated criminal
46:11
investigations of lawmakers and witnesses who testified before the January
46:16
sixth committee, accusing them of lying. I didn't know that
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I was getting one. I didn't seek one. I didn't
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do anything wrong, Don said. But the other main takeaway
46:29
is I wish I lived in a country where I
46:32
didn't need a preemptive pardon. The US Capitol and DC
46:37
police officers suffered during enduring trauma that day, many quit
46:42
our early December twenty twenty one. A total of one
46:45
hundred and thirty five officers had left the two thousand
46:48
member Capitol Police force in twenty twenty one, compared with
46:52
the eighty who departed the previous year. Tim Barber, as
46:56
department spokesperson said at the time, added that not all
47:02
of these departures are the cousin of January sixth, three
47:07
people died as a result of medical emergencies suffered during
47:11
the riot. Capital of Police officer Brian D. Sicknick, who
47:16
was prepa strayed in the riot, died of two strokes
47:19
partly attributed to the attack, a police officer shot and
47:23
killed a rioter, Ashley Babbitt, as she attempted to breach
47:27
a door inside the Capitol. He was cleared of any wrongdoing.
47:33
Four police officers who worked that day later died by suicide.
47:40
Donrold Trump and his loyalists not only celebrate the deadly
47:45
mob that killed my brother, they are determined to pardon
47:48
those responsible. Craig Sidnick said in a statement on Monday,
47:55
it is a betrayal to not only the families of
47:57
loved ones of those who were injured in field, for
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all Americans. And a scathing order issued Wednesday, Senior US
48:07
District Judge Beryl A. Howell called the pardons part of
48:11
a revisionist myth. No national justice occurred here, just as
48:19
no outcome determinative election fraud occurred in the twenty twenty
48:23
presidential election. No process of national recordation reconciliation can begin
48:31
when poor losers whose preferred candidate loses an election are
48:37
glorified for disrupting a constitutionally mandated proceeding in Congress and
48:42
doing so with impunity. She wrote that merely raises the
48:48
dangerous specter of future laws conducted other poor losers and
48:54
undermines the rule of law. The DC Police and issued
49:00
a statement Tuesday night expressing dismay over the pardons, saying
49:05
anyone who assaults a law enforcement officer should be prosecuted
49:09
to the fullest extent of the law, without exception. In
49:13
the same statement, the union urged Trump to pardon due
49:18
two DC police officers convicted in the death of a
49:21
motorist during a pursuit, calling their convictions a glaring miscarriage
49:26
of justice. Regularly Pemberton, the union chairman, tied the two
49:32
issues together, writing that the labor group is hopeful that
49:37
the same measures of justice that was extended to the
49:39
recent January sixth pardons will also be applied to write
49:44
these wrongs. On Wednesday evening, Trump pardoned the officers Andrew
49:51
Zabowski and terryced Sutton Junior, who were convicted of misconduct
49:57
in the vehicle chase they killed a young black man
50:00
and sparked a knight of destructive civil unrest in the district.
50:04
Sutton was the first d C officer convicted for murder
50:08
of murder for on duty actions. Democrats have widely criticized
50:13
Trump's pardons as have threatened democracy and the potential bidding
50:18
to people who may be inspired to pursue political violence.
50:22
Some Republican lawmakers also have criticized pardoning writers for attack
50:27
who attacked police for most have fallen in land behind
50:31
the President for known criticized DC Mayor Muriel E. Bowser
50:37
and Police Chief Pamela A. Smith for their early silence
50:41
on the matter, saying that they have not been allies
50:45
in the fight to hold Donald Trump and the serrogates
50:48
accountable for the desert station they caused on the city
50:52
of Washington. The former officer has been an unapologetic critic
50:59
of as his own department, which he asserted ostracized him
51:03
for speaking and for publicly excoriating rolemakers and others who
51:07
downplayed the attack. He said that he and his family,
51:10
including his mother, have been threatened and that fellow officers
51:14
have shunned him. He said district leaders are more concerned
51:19
with the threats of retribution by Donald Trump than doing
51:22
what's right and speaking out against this outrage. Representatives for
51:28
Bowser and Smith did not make them available for an energy.
51:32
Smith did not make any public remarks. Bowser issued a
51:37
statement through a spokesperson late Wednesday, saying the events of
51:41
January sixth cannot be forgiven or erased. Officers, city, and
51:47
democracy were assaulted on that day. Bowser, an unspoken critic
51:53
of Pump during his first term, has tempered her comments
51:57
this time around, seeking instead to find common ground. Trump
52:02
in his first term threatened to take all of the
52:04
DC Police Department, and district officials since the election have
52:08
sought to avoid attracting the ire of the GOP's ruling Trofectum.
52:14
Because the district is not a state, Trump and the
52:17
Republican Congress could wield significant influence over DC's affairs. The
52:23
strongest statement from the Wilson Building came from Council Chairman
52:27
Phil Mendlesohn, Democrat, who said of the pardons that those
52:33
who support police do not pardon the individuals who assault police.
52:38
He added that is unthinkable that anyone who took part
52:42
in the insurrection will be released before they are held accountable.
52:46
We should not pick and choose whose faces consequences for wrongdoing.
52:53
Extremism researchers say Trump's win and the subsequent pardons in
52:57
bold in far rights groups and validated the falls narrative
53:01
that those who participated in the January six riot were
53:05
heroes trying to reclaim a stolen election. As defendants returned
53:10
to their communities, researchers tracking these groups and the Bolder
53:15
Maga movement said they will be watching to see if
53:18
those released from jail will regroup mobilizers and seek revenge
53:23
on anyone they deem an enemy, including the media, elected officials, judges,
53:30
school board officials, librarians, and witnesses who testified against him.
53:36
By hours on Donald Trump's inauguration day, Hodges, who still
53:41
works as a d C police officer, guarded the inaugural
53:44
events and attendees at various locations in d C as
53:49
Trump set free the man who attacked him, described by
53:53
a judge as a poster child for violence against police.
53:58
In order to serve as seven and a half year
54:01
prison term, he gave people in Naga Hack's directions, He
54:06
said in an interview, he assisted a person in medical distress.
54:11
He was on standby in case extra police were needed
54:14
outside the jail, where some of the accused rioters charged
54:18
with storming the capital four years earlier were about to
54:22
walk out to cheering supporters freed by the new president.
54:27
As far as he could tell, no one seemed to
54:29
recognize him, even though why recirculated video captured his agonizing
54:34
groans while trapped between doors at the West Tunnel, interests
54:39
went viral. One rider tried to rip off his gas mask,
54:43
another beat him with his own baton, and the third
54:46
shot his face full of bash gray. It's my job, Hodges,
54:52
thirty six said in an interview, I take it seriously,
54:56
regardless of my personal feelings. Hadju, a patrol officer with
55:01
Morgan ten years on the force, said that although Trump's
55:05
pardons were unsurprising, it was very depressing to see it
55:09
in real time.
55:11
Speaker 2: He said.
55:11
Speaker 1: Some fellow officers he's close with had negative reactions to
55:16
the pardons, but it wasn't a huge topic of discussion
55:20
with people he works with. I don't bring up politics
55:25
at work, Hodges said, it would just be depressing. He
55:29
added everyone had a different experience that day. Hodges, speaking
55:35
in his personal capacity and not as a representative of
55:39
the police department, said that he was grateful for the
55:41
pardon from Biden, but that he worries that accepting it
55:45
implies guilty. However, he said that might only be true
55:51
if the Justice department his functioned in the way it's
55:53
supposed to and not as an apparatus of vengeance rather
55:58
than justice. In that case, Haija said, accepting a pardon
56:03
is no longer an admission of mute, but it's simply
56:06
a pragmatic defense against a justice department that is no
56:11
longer about justice. Spencer Who's Soon, Marianna Alfaro and Megan
56:17
Vaquez Vasquez contributed to this report. Gary, We've got about
56:23
a minute left. Anything you want to say. You're a
56:31
mute if you're talking.
56:37
Speaker 2: And you're not argue, so we're echoing, So I'll let
56:41
you wrap it up.
56:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got a few minutes. I'm going to say
56:46
that he and I will be reading on Saturday morning.
56:50
But for the next couple of weeks, like the next
56:53
five or so, we will be out of the country
56:56
and somebody will be subbing for us. I don't know who,
57:01
but I'm sure that they will do a wonderful job.
57:05
Speaker 2: We will be back. I think back and in the
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saddle March the fifteenth.
57:13
Speaker 1: The twelfth, maybe, I don't know.
57:17
Speaker 2: Possibly you never know what flight selves.
57:20
Speaker 1: Well, that's true. Everything is all screwed up right now,
57:26
very much. Yeah, the thirteenth would be a Thursday, so
57:30
we could be back in the saddle on the thirteenth
57:33
or Thursday, but anyway we will be gone. We know
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you'll be in good hands. And by that time Radio
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