Examining Trump’s latest hardline immigration policies and legal battles around them
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🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In an effort to increase its deportation numbers, the Trump administration is planning to deport immigrants to Libya on U.S. military planes as soon as today. |
| 0:10.5 | That's according to multiple reports, citing unnamed U.S. officials. |
| 0:14.3 | But when asked about it in the Oval Office today, President Trump didn't seem to know what his administration was planning. |
| 0:21.1 | Are you the administration sending migrants to Libya? |
| 0:25.1 | I don't know. You'll have to ask homeland security, please. |
| 0:29.8 | Our White House correspondent, Laura Barone Lopez, joins me now for the latest on the president's deportation agenda. |
| 0:35.4 | Good to see you, Laura. Good to be here. |
| 0:36.6 | So what else do we know |
| 0:37.6 | about these possible migrant flights to Libya? We don't know much more, Amna, because of the fact that |
| 0:42.7 | the administration is not answering basic questions. We reached out to Homeland Security, as the |
| 0:47.8 | president referred to. We reached out to the White House. And they didn't answer any questions when we |
| 0:53.0 | asked which undocumented |
| 0:54.3 | migrants would be deported when and whether or not it was to Libya or to other countries. |
| 1:00.0 | The State Department simply said that they do not discuss details of diplomatic conversations |
| 1:04.4 | with other governments, despite the fact that the Secretary of State, Mark Rubio, has repeatedly |
| 1:07.9 | said that they are looking for other countries to deport undocumented |
| 1:12.5 | migrants to. Now, we should note that Libya's two rival governments, that's the Western |
| 1:17.1 | internationally recognized government as well as the Eastern militia government, both rejected |
| 1:21.8 | any existence of an agreement or talks of any kind of agreement to deport migrants to Libya. |
| 1:29.2 | And just hours ago, a federal judge in Massachusetts restricted the president's ability |
| 1:34.2 | to deport migrants to Libya, saying that doing so would clearly violate prior orders that he |
| 1:40.5 | has made. |
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