Monday, April 28th, 2025 - Birthright fight; ICE arrests judge; Signal scandal; Salmonella rule nixed; Antisemitism probe; Santos sentenced

Morning Announcements

Betches

News Commentary, Daily News, News, Politics

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🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today’s Headlines: White House adviser Stephen Miller ramped up attacks on birthright citizenship, calling it a national security threat, as news broke that the administration deported U.S. citizen children along with their non-citizen mothers receiving cancer treatment. Meanwhile, Attorney General Pam Bondi defended the arrest of a Milwaukee judge for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant, and loosened rules allowing prosecutors to subpoena journalists’ records. At Columbia and Barnard, faculty were alarmed after receiving surprise government surveys asking if they were Jewish or Israeli as part of a federal antisemitism probe. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is under fire for security breaches, including installing an unsecured internet line and threatening Pentagon officials over leaks about secret briefings for Elon Musk. In other news, the USDA dropped new poultry safety rules that could have curbed salmonella infections and former Rep. George Santos was sentenced to over 7 years in prison for fraud during his 2022 congressional campaign. Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode: The New Republic: Stephen Miller Unveils Bizarre New Attack on Birthright Citizenship CNN: 3 children who are US citizens — including one with cancer — deported with their mothers to Honduras, lawyers and advocacy groups say Huffpost: Pam Bondi Hints At More Judge Arrests In Bone-Chilling Interview: 'We Will Find You' CBS News: Justice Department rescinds policy against seizing journalists' records in leak investigations CNN: Federal agency texts Columbia University and Barnard College employees a survey asking if they are Jewish AP News: Hegseth had an unsecured internet line set up in his office to connect to Signal, AP sources say WSJ: Polygraph Threats, Leaks and Infighting: Pete Hegseth Rattled by Pentagon Chaos AP News: USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry CNN: Former Rep. George Santos sentenced to 87 months for federal fraud charges Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Bridget Schwartz and edited by Grace Hernandez-Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.0	Today is Monday, April 28th, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented by
0:46.6	Betches Media. I'm your host, Sammy Sage, and the morning announcements is your daily five-minute
0:51.2	breakdown of the headlines that isn't a megaphone for the loudest voices,
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1:01.0	Starting the week off with a bang,
1:02.9	White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, Stephen Miller,
1:05.8	has begun claiming that birthright citizenship is, quote,
1:08.7	the biggest, costliest scam in financial history,
1:11.8	as I'm sure the writers of the 14th Amendment intended, Stephen, he said that birthright citizenship
1:17.4	is the number one magnet for illegal immigration and invasion, and a, quote, major national security
1:23.6	threat. I guess we know now who's been that busy little B writing those executive orders.
1:28.8	And also why the administration is defending new reporting that it has deported three children
1:33.5	who are U.S. citizens to Honduras, along with their mothers, who are not citizens, while they were
1:39.0	receiving treatment for metastatic cancer and had legal arrangements to be in the U.S.
1:43.3	All the mothers were detained, with their children ages 2, 4, 7, and 11 months,
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