Gallagher was initially nominated to the federal bench by President Barack Obama, but her nomination stalled in the Senate. She was renominated by Trump during his first term.

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Judge orders return to U.S. of second migrant deported to El Salvador
A federal judge in Maryland has ordered the Trump administration to return a Venezuelan man who was sent to a megaprison in El Salvador despite having protection from removal

A federal judge in Maryland has ordered the Trump administration to return a Venezuelan man who was sent to a megaprison in El Salvador despite being part of a class action settlement that should have protected him from removal.

U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher said Wednesday that other migrants covered by the settlement should also be shielded from deportation or transfer to El Salvador until their asylum cases are processed.

The case marks the second time a judge has ordered the Trump administration to return a migrant it sent to El Salvador on March 15.

The first was Kilmar Abrego García, a Salvadoran immigrant who received from an immigration judge in 2019 a “withholding of removal� order preventing his deportation and yet was sent to El Salvador. The Trump administration later acknowledged he was deported in error but has not yet returned him. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) flew to El Salvador and met with Abrego García, who had been transferred out of the Terrorism Confinement Center to another detention facility eight days before.

Unlike Abrego García, the 20-year old Venezuelan migrant identified only as Cristian in court filings was sent to El Salvador under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, which was invoked by President Donald Trump on March 14. The first deportations of migrants under the act occurred the next day and included Cristian.

Cristian came to the United States as an unaccompanied minor and was one of four plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit against the government. The lawsuit argued that he and other migrants who arrived as children should be able to stay in the United States while their asylum claims are adjudicated.
“We filed this motion to hold the government accountable to the promises it made to the Court and to the thousands of vulnerable young people whose futures depend on the integrity of this process,� Cristian’s lawyers said in a statement Thursday. “We are grateful that the court upheld the rights of Cristian and other class members to pursue their asylum claims safely in the United States.�

A settlement was reached in November. The agreement says Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “will refrain from executing the Class Member’s final removal order until [U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services] issues a Final Determination on one properly filed asylum application.�

more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/24/el-salvador-venezuelan-migrant-asylum/

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a new low of 38% approve on the economy (56% disapprove).

His worst ratings are on inflation (33% approve, 59% disapprove), followed by tariffs (33%-58%), foreign policy (40%-54%), taxes (38%-53%), and guns (41%-44%).

http://www.foxnews.com/official-polls/fox-news-poll-first-100-days-president-trumps-second-term

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He destroys everything he touches!

Trump Takes a Major Step Toward Seabed Mining in International Waters

The executive order would circumvent a decades-old international treaty that every major coastal nation except the United States has ratified.

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Which is exactly why Trump doesn't give a damn, those people would vote for him if he was burning their house down or raping their daughters, and he knows it. Besides, despite what he might be telling people, he's not running again so they can just go pound sand as far as he's concerned. After all, there's not a one of them in the whole bunch that he would allow in the front door of Mar-a-Lago, unless they were making a Doordash delivery from McDonald's.

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Judge blocks parts of Trump’s overhaul of US elections, including proof-of-citizenship requirement

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sided with voting rights groups and Democrats to grant a preliminary injunction to stop the citizenship requirement from moving forward while the lawsuit plays out.

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Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s push to end DEI in K-12 public schools

http://apnews.com/article/trump-public-schools-diversity-equality-inclusion-dei-7d7ad707d91565753263a19ebde044e0?

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Sanders says Arkansas in ‘dire need of federal assistance,’ but Trump says no

Gov. Sarah Sanders said Arkansas is in “dire need of federal assistance� in an appeal letter last week after the federal government denied help after last month’s damaging storms.

Fourteen tornadoes touched down in Arkansas on March 14 and 15, leaving three dead and dozens injured.

The next week, Sanders asked President Donald Trump for a major disaster declaration, the first step in securing federal funds and other help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Sanders specifically requested help in the form of small business loans and individual assistance for people in Greene, Hot Spring, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Lawrence, Randolph, Sharp and Stone counties.

But the Trump administration declined to declare a disaster, meaning no federal assistance would be heading our way.

In their rejection note to Sanders’ March 21 request, the federal government said the damage wasn’t anything state and local folks couldn’t handle.

more:

http://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2025/04/21/sanders-says-arkansas-in-dire-need-of-federal-assistance-but-trump-says-no

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Chaos is about to take its toll
PAUL KRUGMAN

http://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-is-a-virus?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ecdeca9-14b7-4182-b588-d95ae9c80961_986x630.png&open=false

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Notice that this is a deep Red state...

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In rare criticism of Putin, Trump urges the Russian leader to ‘STOP!’ after a deadly attack on Kyiv

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Just 37 percent of respondents said they support Trump’s approach to economic issues, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday, April 23.

more:
http://dailyvoice.com/new-york/somers/heres-percentage-of-americans-who-approve-of-trumps-handling-of-economy-new-poll/

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Trump Shrugs Off Plunge in Visitors to the U.S. as No Big Deal
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Data from the International Trade Administration shows a worrying trend, however. While Americans continue to jet off in their droves, the number of visitors touching down on U.S. soil has fallen considerably.

The number of foreign visitors flying into the U.S. fell by almost 10 percent in March compared with the same period last year, the agency reports. The figure is down nearly 13 percent from before the pandemic, to 4.54 million people.

more:
http://dnyuz.com/2025/04/24/trump-shrugs-off-plunge-in-visitors-to-the-u-s-as-no-big-deal/

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Pakistan cancels visas for Indian nationals, suspends trade, closes airspace after Kashmir attack

http://apnews.com/article/kashmir-india-pakistan-pahalgam-tourist-attack-tensions-242c7a600a51793f5484e4f620402fdd?

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Making China Stronger at every turn....

Whether it is putting an incompetent drunk (who posts military secrets in a public app on his personal phone) in charge of our military, or implementing tariff policies (which change more often than my 6-month old grandson’s diaper) that have destroyed the trust between us and our nation’s allies (decades to build, days to destroy), EVERY action that Trump takes has strengthened China’s position in the world and weakened ours.

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