It's Tuesday, March 18th. I'm Jane Koston. This is Water Day. The show that found out that

Mercury is in retrograde until April 7th, which checks out, despite me not knowing what that means.

On today's show, President Donald Trump dismantles Voice of America, and the administration expels South Africa's ambassador to the U.S.

But first, let's start with immigration, because it's been a scary few days for a lot of people living in the U.S. who aren't citizens, whether they're here legally on a green card or visa, or they're undocumented, or you just

happen to love those people very much. On Monday, the Trump administration doubled down on its

decision over the weekend to deport more than 250 migrants, mostly Venezuelans. About half of them

were removed under the Alien Enemies Act, a centuries-old law President Donald Trump has invoked

to deport suspected members of the Venezuelan gang, Trend de Aragua. Trump was asked about his

use of the wartime law to deport migrants with little to no due process. Speaking on Air Force One

Monday, the president said, this is a war. In many respects, it's more dangerous than war, because, you know, in war, they have

uniforms.

You know who you're shooting at.

You know who you're going after.

So it's not a war.

But the big question is whether the administration carried out these deportations in violation

of a federal judge's order Saturday to turn back the flights.

The White House says it didn't,

that the plans were over international waters by the time the judge issued his ruling, and therefore,

it didn't apply. Trump's borders are, Tom Homan, had the most unhinged, does this mean we're in

the constitutional crisis take on that question when he told Fox and friends, basically, fuck those judges,

Trump for King.

I wake up every morning loving my job because I work for the greatest president in the history in my life and we're going to make this country safe again. I'm proud to be a part of this

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