How Trump wants the military to help with his immigration crackdown | President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration could enter a new phase with military help. The Pentagon is reviewing a Department of Homeland Security request to deploy more than 20,000 additional National Guard troops "in support of interior immigration enforcement operations." There are currently thousands of National Guard and active-duty troops at the southern border. But Homeland Security officials want additional troops to help track fugitives, quell riots at detention centers and search for unaccompanied children in remote or hostile terrain. Pentagon and Customs and Border Patrol officials have inspected military bases in recent months from New Jersey to California as potential sites to detain an expected influx of migrants. The price tag of the troop request? $3.6 billion to keep 20,000 National Guardsmen on duty for one year. How public confidence in the military could shift if the request is granted. |
• | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have conducted sweeping raids under a directive from Trump to find undocumented immigrants. Protests have sprung up against the sweeps the agency is carrying out in various neighborhoods across the country – from New York City to Chicago to smaller areas like Columbus, Ohio, and Des Moines, Iowa. | • | Still amid the growing protests, ICE raids are continuing. A meat production plant in Omaha, Nebraska was the site of an immigration raid, with it being the "largest worksite enforcement operation" in the state during the Trump presidency, the Homeland Security Department said. The food packaging company said it was surprised by the raid and had followed the rules regarding immigration status. | | Protesters march against the Trump administration immigration policy and ICE deportations through streets of downtown Columbus after gathering at City Hall on Tuesday. Adam Cairns, Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images |
After a blow up, the cool down | It was a very public break up. And now, it is a very public reconciliation. Billionaire Elon Musk said some of the social media posts he made last week about President Donald Trump "went too far" and he regrets making them. Musk has deleted some posts critical of Trump, including one signaling support for impeaching the president and another implicating him in the investigation of the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The two's feud began after Musk criticized the president's so-called "big, beautiful bill" and urged lawmakers to kill it. Trump in an interview with the New York Post on Wednesday said Musk's recent apology "was very nice." What Musk and Trump said about each other. | On Saturday, you can expect tanks, armored vehicles, and thousands of troops to descend on Washington, D.C., for the massive Army parade (which also happens to be President Donald Trump's birthday.) But you can also expect some planned protests on the same day that are proceeding with caution. Trump earlier this week declared protesters could be "met with very big force." However, a "Refuse Fascism" march to the White House ahead of the Army parade, a "National Protest Against Trump and the War Machine," demonstration at Meridian Hill Park, and the National Black Justice Collective's "ceremonial walk" around the Reflecting Pool near the Lincoln Memorial are all still happening on Saturday. How organizers are preparing for security. | | Far from the southern border, Massachusetts' immigrant community lives in fear of ICE and high school students are leading the local resistance. | | Trump's extensive effort to keep foreign nationals from certain countries out includes the halting of refugee admissions and a travel ban. | | | | Trump's visit to the Kennedy Center with his wife, the vice president and the second lady is his first time attending a show at the iconic arts venue. | | | | New Jersey is set to have a hotly competitive governor's race this fall as Democrats look to decipher a pathway on beating Trump and his allies | | | | A federal appeals court ruled Trump can continue to collect tariffs while businesses and states try to overturn taxes on foreign imports. | | | | | Sign up for the news you want | Exclusive newsletters are part of your subscription, don't miss out! We're always working to add benefits for subscribers like you. | | | | | |
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