NPR News: 06-06-2025 5PM EDT
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🗓️ 6 June 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The best kind of celebrity interview is one where you find out that the person who made a thing you love also thinks in a way that you love. |
| 0:10.2 | Nothing is more foreign than when Ariel says in The Little Mermaid, I want to be where the people are. |
| 0:16.1 | I don't want to be where the people are. I just don't. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Rachel Martin. Listen to the Wildcard |
| 0:21.8 | podcast, only from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. The Trump administration is |
| 0:30.3 | returning Kilmar-Abrigo Garcia. The man wrongly deported to El Salvador almost three months ago, |
| 0:36.5 | back to the U.S., where he faces criminal |
| 0:39.1 | charges from a grand jury in Tennessee that charged him with, quote, conspiracy to transport undocumented |
| 0:44.7 | people. Attorney General Pam Bondi. |
| 0:47.3 | The grand jury found that over the past nine years of Rego Garcia has played a significant role in an alien smuggling ring. |
| 0:59.0 | They found this was his full-time job, not a contractor. |
| 1:04.8 | And she says that included allegedly transporting children. |
| 1:08.5 | Abrago Garcia's deportation was at the center of a political and legal battle |
| 1:12.7 | over the Trump administration's immigration policies. The case went to the Supreme Court, |
| 1:17.3 | which told the administration to facilitate his return. The Department of Homeland Security is |
| 1:23.3 | requesting 20,000 National Guard troops to assist with immigration enforcement. NPR's |
| 1:29.2 | Jimenez-Bustillo reports this would be a new way to use service members. A memo obtained by NPR shows a |
| 1:35.5 | detailed request from DHS to the Defense Department for thousands of troops. Their tasks range from |
| 1:41.0 | file management to logging to guard duty and detention centers. |
| 1:48.8 | The request has not been approved yet by the Pentagon, but the move would be the first time that the National Guard is used for interior immigration enforcement at a national scale. |
| 1:53.8 | Individual states have previously sent their own guard to help with border security, |
| 1:58.3 | and Texas gave its National guard the authority to make immigration |
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