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Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Federal agents continue expanding their deportation

operations as they move to fulfill President Trump's promises on illegal immigration,

carrying out raids across the country.

Resistance by immigrant rights groups is also growing, as we hear from NPR's Adrian Florido.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Partner agencies have reported raids to pick up hundreds of immigrants in Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, San Diego, Miami, and many other cities. I says it's targeting potentially

dangerous criminal aliens. Its press releases highlight arrests of people convicted or wanted for

crimes like extortion, homicide, domestic violence, and narcotics violations. But advocates say

it's also getting people who pose no threat. In Atlanta, activists reported immigrants with

pending asylum claims were rounded up. In Puerto Rico, the ACLU said ICE had detained people with

legal status and no criminal history. Advocates have filed a raft of lawsuits to try to slow the

deportation dragnet. Adrian Flaidio and PR News, Los Angeles. The acting U.S. Attorney General is moving to dismiss several prosecutors who

investigated Donald Trump.

MPR. Carrie Johnson reports on upheaval inside the Justice Department.

More than a dozen Justice Department officials who worked alongside Special Counsel Jack

Smith have received firing notices, according to two sources inside the building.

Acting Attorney General James McHenry wrote, they could not be trusted in, quote,

faithfully implementing the president's agenda. The termination letters were first reported by Fox News.

Trump campaigned on a promise of retribution, and his appointees to lead the DOJ and the FBI have

talked about wanting to investigate the investigators. Jack Smith resigned before he could be fired,

as did another senior national security lawyer, but many more career prosecutors and agents on his

team remained on the job. Both cases against Trump

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