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NPR News: 03-16-2025 7PM EDT

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🗓️ 16 March 2025

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0:00.0

Anas Baba is NPR's eyes and ears on the ground in Gaza.

0:04.4

Wherever you put your eye to the horizon, it's the same.

0:09.7

Destruction everywhere.

0:11.9

On the Sunday story, what it's like to be a reporter covering the war in Gaza

0:16.4

while also living through it.

0:18.9

Listen now to the Sunday story on the Up First podcast from NPR.

0:24.3

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. President Trump deported around 250 migrants this

0:31.6

weekend after invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. It's a rarely used law that gives wartime deportation powers to the president.

0:40.7

A federal judge had blocked Trump's use of this law. And here's Luke Garrett has more.

0:45.3

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. deported hundreds of people who he says are members of the MS-13 and Tren

0:51.8

Daragua gangs on Sunday. Rubio posted on X that El Salvadorian

0:55.7

President Naib Buckele will take these migrants to, quote, very good jails at a fair price.

1:01.3

The president of El Salvador then posted a video of the deportees in handcuffs and said the

1:05.5

deportees would be held behind bars for one year.

1:08.5

Buckele also responded to reports of a federal judge blocking the deportations

1:12.1

with a post saying, quote, oopsies, too late. On Sunday, Trump's press secretary, Caroline Levitt,

1:18.0

defended the president's use of the 18th century law, not invoked since World War II. With the

1:23.1

migrants now in El Salvador, it's unclear what jurisdiction U.S. courts will have. Luke Garrett, NPR News,

1:29.5

Washington. The Census Bureau's internal watchdog says the agency hasn't been recruiting and retaining

1:35.9

enough interviewers for key national surveys, raising concerns about the quality of the data

1:40.9

used to produce the country's monthly jobs report. And peers Hansi Lo Wong has more.

1:45.4

The economic indicators and other statistics the Census Bureau produces rely on survey responses

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