Trump deputizes thousands of federal agents to arrest immigrants
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🗓️ 24 January 2025
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President Donald Trump is expanding the pool of federal law enforcement officers who can investigate and apprehend immigrants. Plus, a judge blocked Trump's birthright citizenship order.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's The Excerpt, Ad-Free, right now. |
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| 0:12.5 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Friday, January 24, 2025. |
| 0:18.4 | This is the excerpt. |
| 0:21.9 | Today we recap a busy day of Trump administration immigration moves, plus Trump |
| 0:26.7 | heads to California after threatening to withhold federal funds amid wildfires, and the Oscar |
| 0:31.8 | nominations are here. The Trump administration late yesterday deputized thousands more federal law enforcement officers to arrest immigrants in the country illegally. |
| 0:42.6 | Two agencies typically enforce the nation's complex Title VIII immigration laws, U.S. immigration and customs enforcement, or ICE in the country's interior, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the nation's borders. |
| 0:55.2 | Yesterday, Department of Homeland Security Act and Secretary Benjamin Huffman |
| 0:58.7 | expanded the group of federal law enforcement officers who can investigate and apprehend immigrants. |
| 1:04.7 | It wasn't immediately clear how many officers would be reassigned to immigrant enforcement. |
| 1:09.9 | Meanwhile, President Trump said yesterday that he would appeal a federal judge's move |
| 1:14.0 | to temporarily block his executive order ending birthright citizenship. |
| 1:19.0 | A U.S. District Judge in Seattle, who blocked the order yesterday, blasted it as blatantly |
| 1:24.0 | unconstitutional. |
| 1:25.6 | He issued a restraining order preventing the Trump administration |
| 1:28.3 | from carrying it out. President Donald Trump is threatening to withhold federal funds amid |
| 1:37.1 | Los Angeles wildfires. The threats come ahead of his trip to the state later today, |
| 1:41.6 | and as new fires have sparked in both the L.A. and San Diego |
| 1:45.0 | areas this week. I spoke with USA Today, Chief Political correspondent, Philip M. Bailey for more. |
| 1:51.2 | Philip, thank you for hopping on, as always. |
| 1:53.6 | Hey, Taylor. How are you? Good, good. So let's just start here. I mean, what is President |
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