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NPR News: 04-18-2025 6AM EDT

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🗓️ 18 April 2025

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These days, there is a lot of news. It can be hard to keep up with what it means for you, your family, and your community. Consider this from NPR is a podcast that helps you make sense of the news. Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a story and provide the context, backstory, and analysis you need to understand our rapidly changing world. Listen to the Consider

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this podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman, U.S. Senator Chris

0:27.9

Van Hollen is in El Salvador. He's been able to meet the immigrant who was illegally deported

0:32.7

from Maryland to El Salvador by the Trump administration. Kilma Abraga GarciaGarcia was sent to a Salvador in prison, even though he had obtained legal protection

0:41.5

in the U.S. reporter Manuel Dereid has more on the Democratic Senator's visit.

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At about 8 p.m. Eastern, the Maryland Senator published a photo on his ex-account that shows

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a meeting with Abrago Garcia in a room with wooden tables and wine glasses.

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The meeting was confirmed by El Salvador's president who posted more pictures on his account

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and wrote that Abrago Garcia was now, quote, sipping margaritas in El Salvador.

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Abrago Garcia immigrated illegally to the U.S. in 2011, but had obtained protection from deportation a few years ago.

1:14.8

In March, he was arrested by ICE agents and sent to El Salvador's notorious Secoq prison.

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The Trump administration has said that Abrago Garcia's removal was an administrative error,

1:25.2

but it has also refused to bring the 29-year-old back to the United States.

1:29.8

For NPR News of Manuel Rueh in Bogota.

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The U.S. Supreme Court says it will hear expedited arguments next month on a key issue.

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The cases test President Trump's claim that there is no such thing as automatic birthright citizenship in the U.S. Constitution.

1:46.4

NPR's Nina Totenberg has more.

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The 14th Amendment of the Constitution was enacted after the Civil War

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and aimed at ensuring citizenship for all previously enslaved people and their children.

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It says, quote, all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the

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jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in 1898 that

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the provision guarantees citizenship to all babies born in the U.S. But Trump has long maintained that

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