Donald Trump Is Raising Your Taxes, and Republicans Won’t Stop Him
“God put the Republican Party on Earth to cut taxes. If they don’t do that, they have no useful function.” — Robert Novak
On Wednesday, President
Earth Day celebration at Expo Center features fun, environmental awareness
Northwest Indiana’s annual Earth Day celebration offered up 55 vendors at the Porter County Expo Center Saturday morning in celebration of the country’s 55th anniversary of the creation of Earth Day.
The mood was upbeat as families with young children and folks toting free saplings mingled among gorgeous rain barrels, electric vehicles, and exotic animals while live steel pan music filled the air. Nine-year-old Abbi Wegrzyn-Sanchez, of Valparaiso, was enjoying the live animal show with her mom and three siblings.
“I actually got super pumped,” she said after leaving the stage where she got to hold a young alligator. “When I got on the stage, I didn’t even expect he was going to pick me.”
Across the room, Valparaiso High School seniors from the VHS Earth Awareness Club were offering face painting to add to the fun.
The club conducts recycling at the school as well as projects in the community. Student Anthony Olivarez, who’s heading to the University of Colorado Boulder as an environmental studies major this fall, said the club recently helped Meadowbrook Nature Preserve clean the seeds of native plant species for distribution.
“It’s cool to see the youth,” said Keri Marrs-Baron, executive director of Porter County Recycling & Waste Reduction, which sponsors the celebration.
She said food waste and plastic are the two biggest trends in the recycling world right now. Her office just started a residential food collection drive offered on Wednesdays at the Coffee Creek Farmers Market. Typical food compost items like vegetable scraps are welcome, but no bones or dairy.
Down the hall in the kid zone, Boy Scout Troop 907 from First Christian Church in Valparaiso is helping children build birdhouses for bluebirds.
“It’s great. I love it,” said eighth grader Christopher Szevery as he helped Memphis Rugg, a first-grader at Morgan Township Elementary School, build his birdhouse. Christopher said his troop has been preparing the materials for the past month. “Not all of them are perfect,” he said.
Memphis didn’t mind. “It’s cool,” he said, saying he’d put the house “maybe in my backyard.”
The fair didn’t just draw children. Ariel Bribiesca, of Valparaiso, was touring with her relatives on her day off from Pratt Industries, which makes boxes from 100% recycled paper pulp right next door to the Expo Center. Her grandma, Carmen Gonzalez, of Lowell, is a repeat visitor.
She said last year she “learned about those pods that you shouldn’t use in your dishwasher because they don’t disintegrate all the way.” Saturday, she collected a tick identification card. “It was really interesting,” Gonzalez said.
Even those who just wanted a good shop could do so with an array of suncatchers, jewelry and art made from recycled materials, and other eco-friendly goods such as Ink Forest Eco-Friendly Screen Printing. Owner Judy Mazzuca said she’s the only woman-owned and Green America green-certified screenprinter in the country.
“The pigments are suspended in oil and they’re melted on top, which is why they crack and peel,” she explained of traditional plastisol screen printing. “You also need benzene to clean them off.”
The PVC used is also a known endocrine disruptor. Water-based inks, by contrast, are suspended in water, which evaporates, leaving the ink infused into the fabric, she said.
For those fired up to do something about environmental toxins, the Citizens’ Climate Lobby was taking names.
Gary Jump, a volunteer from Illinois, was hoping to reinvigorate the Northwest Indiana chapter, which has been without a chapter leader since last year. “You’ve got to go for singles, not home runs all the time,” he said of the effort to garner more individual interest and “get Congress to pass more legislation to deal with climate change.”
Earth Day is on April 22 each year. For more information on its origin, go to earthday.org .
Shelley Jones is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.
Tucker Carlson: ‘Of Course’ Trump Is Willing to Negotiate With China on Tariffs
President Donald Trump is using tariffs to apply heavy pressure on China on trade, but he remains open to negotiations with Beijing, Tucker Carlson says.
“Well, of course, he is,” Carlson said when asked whether he thought Trump is willing to negotiate with China.
“I mean, the question is: Who needs the other more? Does the U.S. need China more or China need the U.S.? I can’t answer that,” Carlson told The Daily Signal.
Only hours after new tariffs went into effect on about 90 countries around the world, Trump announced a 90-day pause on the “reciprocal” tariffs, but he increased tariffs on goods from China.
“Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the world’s markets, I am hereby raising the tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday.
China and the U.S. “need each other,” Carlson said. “The deal has been for the past 30 years: We’ll buy your underpriced consumer goods; you buy our overpriced debt. And you know, in some ways that’s worked great. In other ways, it hasn’t worked at all.”
Carlson was at the White House last week when Trump stood in the Rose Garden and announced his plan to increase tariffs to a minimum of 10% on nations around the world. Despite knowing Trump for years and the president’s interest in tariffs as a negotiation tool, the conservative news commentator and former Fox News host said he was “shocked” by Trump’s tariff plan.
“I wasn’t against what Trump was saying, but I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, that’s shocking that he said that. You can’t erect trade barriers.’ … It’s like all the childhood orthodoxies were still rattling around in my head.”
Free market conservatives have traditionally opposed most tariffs.
While there is a lot Carlson said he cannot assess regarding Trump’s use of tariffs due to not being an economist, he was confident in saying, “There’s going to be a disengagement from China.”
“I hope it doesn’t become a … total disengagement,” Carlson said, “and I certainly hope there’s not a military conflict . I don’t think we’d win. Well, we wouldn’t win at this point. But there needs to be some kind of disengagement on trade.”
America cannot be reliant on China and other nations for critical products such as pharmaceuticals and critical military components, he said.
“You have to be able to build a jet engine exclusively in the United States and not rely on supply chains 10,000 miles long or on countries that are hostile to you. I mean, that’s crazy. It’s just basic stuff. And we have the resources to do that,” he said.
On Friday, China raised tariffs on U.S. imports to a matching 125%.
Trump says he is using tariffs to bring American manufacturing back to the U.S., an action some on Capitol Hill say is long overdue.
“Missouri alone has lost 50,000 jobs to China,” Sen. Josh Hawley , R-Mo., wrote on X on Thursday. “Trump is right to go after China.”
This article was originally published April 11.
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Trump Aides Signal New Tariffs on Chips, Calling Exclusions Temporary
On Friday, the administration carved out an exception for a variety of electronics from the steep taxes now applied to Chinese imports.
Adolescente de Wisconsin acusado de matar a sus padres planeaba asesinar a Trump
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Un adolescente de Wisconsin acusado de la muerte de sus padres enfrenta acusaciones más amplias de que los mató para “obtener los medios financieros” para asesinar al presidente estadounidense Donald Trump y derrocar al gobierno, según una orden federal recientemente revelada.
Nikita Casap, de 17 años, fue acusado el mes pasado por las autoridades del condado Waukesha de asesinato en primer grado, robo y otros delitos por la muerte de su madre, Tatiana Casap, y su padrastro, Donald Mayer. Las autoridades alegan que el adolescente les disparó en su casa en las afueras de Milwaukee en febrero y vivió con los cuerpos en descomposición durante semanas antes de huir con 14.000 dólares en efectivo, pasaportes y el perro de la familia. Fue arrestado el mes pasado en Kansas.
Casap, bajo custodia en la cárcel del condado Waukesha con una fianza de 1 millón de dólares, debe comparecer en la corte el próximo mes para presentar una declaración. Los fiscales del condado han ofrecido un vistazo de las acusaciones federales, que fueron detalladas en una orden del FBI el viernes.
Las autoridades federales acusan a Casap de planear los asesinatos de sus padres, comprar un dron y explosivos, y compartir sus planes con otros, incluido un hablante de ruso. Sus intenciones están detalladas en un manifiesto antisemita de tres páginas que elogia a Adolf Hitler. La orden presentada en el tribunal federal de Milwaukee también contiene extractos de comunicaciones en TikTok y Telegram.
“Casap parece haber escrito un manifiesto que llama al asesinato del presidente de Estados Unidos. Estaba en contacto con otras partes sobre su plan para matar al presidente y derrocar al gobierno de Estados Unidos”, dice la orden de registro.
“El asesinato de sus padres parecía ser un esfuerzo para obtener los medios financieros y la autonomía necesarios para llevar a cabo su plan”.
En la corte, los fiscales alegaron que Casap estaba en contacto con una persona que habla ruso y compartió un plan para huir a Ucrania. Las autoridades lo encontraron en Kansas con dinero, pasaportes, un coche y el perro de la familia.
Los fiscales federales alegaron que el manifiesto de Casap describía sus razones para querer matar a Trump e incluía ideas sobre cómo viviría en Ucrania.
Citando los escritos de Casap, la orden federal decía que el adolescente quería provocar el colapso gubernamental “eliminando al presidente y quizás al vicepresidente”.
El domingo se dejaron mensajes telefónicos y en línea buscando comentarios para la defensora pública de Casap, Nicole Ostrowski. En la corte el mes pasado, ella solicitó desestimar algunos de los cargos contra su cliente, incluido el robo, argumentando que los fiscales no habían presentado su caso. También ha señalado la edad de su cliente durante los procedimientos judiciales.
“Es joven, todavía está en la escuela secundaria”, dijo el 12 de marzo.
Las autoridades del condado también acusaron a Casap de ocultar un cadáver, robo y mal uso de identificación para obtener dinero.
Los oficiales encontraron los cuerpos de Tatiana Casap, de 35 años; y Mayer, de 51 años, el 28 de febrero. Los miembros de la familia solicitaron un control de bienestar después de que Mayer no se presentó a trabajar y Nikita Casap faltó a la escuela casi dos semanas.
Las autoridades creen que los padres fueron asesinados semanas antes. Los fiscales dijeron en la corte que los cuerpos de la pareja estaban tan descompuestos que tuvieron que ser identificados mediante registros dentales.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Trump’s Righteous Smithsonian Reforms
The Left has been rewriting history since the concept of a Left-Right spectrum was introduced during the 1789 French Revolution . Yet somehow, the Left thinks its revisionism, once in place, must become holy writ. If anyone says, “No, we’re not doing that,” leftists stomp their feet and make childish noises.
That pretty much sums up some of the shock and alarm emanating from progressives regarding the executive order that President Donald Trump issued on the Smithsonian Museum on March 27, titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”
The gist of the complaint is that it is Trump who is trying to rewrite history. “Hands off our history, Mr. President,” harrumphed The Washington Post’s letters column on April 6, as incensed readers vented their spleen for the umpteenth time on Trump’s latest action. The paper ran another piece on April 7 in which three columnists discussed the order. It was headlined “The Smithsonian is the latest battleground in the fight for America’s story,” again suggesting that it had been Trump—and not the Smithsonian—who initiated cultural hostilities.
In yet another piece, one of the authors, Monica Hesse, chided the executive order for stating that under the Left’s revision of history, “Our Nation’s unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty , individual rights, and human happiness is reconstructed as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed.”
“For who?” Hesse asked, ungrammatically. “Whose happiness did we advance? Whose happiness did we overlook?”
This is typical leftist cant, and the preferred explanation for why leftists must rewrite history . Because America hasn’t been perfect—because, for example, it once engaged in the heinous and disgusting practice of slavery, just like every society before it—it cannot claim to have advanced liberty.
But America’s focus on liberty is its hallmark, precisely why over 100 million immigrants have come here since the 1840s. That includes the 4.6 million black immigrants living here now, who make up with their children more than 20% of the overall black population.
Before the present outbreak of mass hysteria regarding our history, the reality that the rest of the world sees America as a beacon of freedom was taught in schools without any hangups.
But my favorite piece agonizing about the executive order was in the New Yorker, by longtime editor David Remnick. A couple of things make it special. The first is the overwrought handwringing, and how Remnick brazenly leaves out that the Left’s rewriting of American history forced Trump to act.
“This urge to police the past is hardly unique to the Trump Administration. It is the reflexive obsession of autocrats everywhere,” he tsk-tsks. Not only is “Orange Man Bad,” but he’s the latest in a history of “autocrats.”
Remnick also takes aim at me, and in the lede, no less. He notes that soon after Trump’s election, “Mike Gonzalez, a contributor to Project 2025 [gasp!], and Armen Tooloee, the former chief of staff to the right-wing activist Christopher Rufo, elaborated on the new Administration’s martial maneuvers, writing in the Wall Street Journal that, in order ‘to put a spike through the heart of woke,’ the White House was duty bound to ‘retake control of museums, starting with the Smithsonian Institution’.”
Yes, David, we wrote that because under Secretary Lonnie Bunch, the Smithsonian is a fully signed-up member of the crusade to “decolonize” our collective mind. Bunch has embraced every attempt to rewrite history, from Black Lives Matter, to the 1619 Project, to diversity, equity, and inclusion (whose trainings are themselves attempts at rewiring our brains).
Soon after taking the helm of the Smithsonian in 2019, Bunch told the house magazine he wanted the museums entrusted to him to “legitimize” the 1619 Project. He wanted “everybody that thought about the 1619 Project” to see “that the Smithsonian had fingerprints on it.”
The New York Times was crystal clear that the mendacious project sought “to reframe the country’s history.” For her part, its founder Nikole Hannah-Jones told the Harvard Gazette that its telling of slavery “would corrupt and corrode and shape everything about the United States.”
France’s Jacobins changed everything from the names of the days of the week, to the months in the calendar, to thousands of street names that referred to Catholic saints. Every leftist since then, from Marx to Lenin to Pol Pot, from Castro to Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo, has tried to revise history.
And they have their reasons to do so. What characterizes the Left—and why it’s so difficult to abandon the Left-Right spectrum—is a lust for destroying the social order. The intelligent right, as Edmund Burke understood, manages necessary change by maintaining what is valuable.
The Left doesn’t always purge historical facts or fabricate events, the way Stalin airbrushed out of photographs accomplices who had fallen into disfavor, sent to the Gulag, or murdered. Leftists sometimes pretend that official history has been written to preserve the present order of things. “White history is the norm of history,” writes DiAngelo in White Fragility.
But if you agree with Trump that maybe we don’t want to corrupt and corrode everything about the United States, and that the Smithsonian shouldn’t be in the business of legitimizing such activity, then you see why we must stop this revisionism.
Originally published by the Washington Examiner
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Bridgewater founder: ‘We are at a decision-making point and very close to a recession’
Ray Dalio, the billionaire investor and founder of hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, said on Sunday the United States is “very close to a recession.”
In an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” Dalio expressed concern about a confluence of different economic and political factors that he said could send the U.S. economy into “something worse than a recession.”
“I think that right now we are at a decision-making point and very close to a recession. And I’m worried about something worse than a recession if this isn’t handled well,” Dalio said when asked whether he thinks the U.S. will likely dip into a recession “because of President Trump’s tariffs.”
Dalio said he’s particularly concerned about U.S. debt and urged lawmakers to pledge to get the budget deficit down to 3 percent.
“If they don’t, we’re going to have a supply/demand problem for debt at the same time as we have these other problems. And the results of that will be worse than a normal recession,” he added.
The debt, coupled with Trump’s tariffs — as well as the “profound changes in our domestic order” and “profound changes in the world order” — could lead to a “very, very disruptive” outcome, Dalio said.
“Such times are very much like the 1930s. I’ve studied history. And this repeats over and over again,” he said, adding, “How that’s handled could produce something that is much worse than a recession. Or it could be handled well.”
Earlier this month, the White House announced a 10 percent baseline tariff on foreign imports, as well as steeper “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of other countries, including many key trading partners. The president later announced a 90-day pause on higher tariffs for trading partners, bringing the tariff rate for foreign countries back to 10 percent during that time.
That alteration did not apply to China, however. Trump has ratcheted up reciprocal tariffs on China to 125 percent on top of 20 percent levies, leading to a proportionate response from Beijing. That has escalated fears of a massive trade war between the world’s two largest economies. On Friday, the White House announced it is exempting electronics from the “reciprocal” tariffs imposed on nations, including China.
Real Madrid vence al Alavés en la liga española a pesar de expulsión de Mbappé
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MADRID (AP) — A pesar de una tarjeta roja a Kylian Mbappé por una entrada imprudente en la primera mitad, el Real Madrid venció 1-0 el domingo al Alavés y volvió a colocarse a cuatro puntos del líder de la liga española, el Barcelona.
Mbappé fue expulsado poco antes del descanso tras entrar con fuerza en una disputa por el balón con Antonio Blanco.
Inicialmente, el árbitro le mostró la tarjeta amarilla al astro francés, pero el árbitro la cambió a roja después de revisar el video.
El Alavés también jugó con diez hombres desde los 70 minutos después de que Manu Sánchez fuera expulsado por una falta sobre el delantero del Madrid, Vinícius Júnior.
Eduardo Camavinga anotó el gol de la victoria del Madrid con un disparo desde fuera del área al 34.
El Barcelona había aumentado su ventaja sobre el Madrid con una victoria de 1-0 en Leganés el sábado.
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Live updates: Trump tariff whiplash to take center stage on Sunday shows
The whiplash from President Trump’s fresh tariff agenda has lasted into the weekend as Trump’s approval rating takes a dip as Republicans on Capitol Hill work to carry out his domestic agenda.
Financial markets took a dramatic tumble after the president implemented a flat 10 percent tariff on all goods coming into the country, alongside steeper reciprocal tariffs against dozens of nations.
On Wednesday, Trump temporarily paused most tariffs while increasing tariffs against Chinese goods by 125 percent on top of the 20 percent duty levied against the world’s second largest economy earlier this year.
China fired back Friday morning, announcing it would institute a 125 percent tariff on all U.S. goods coming into Beijing.
Bridgewater Founder Ray Dalio, who will join NBC’s “Meet The Press,” is also slated to weigh in on Trump’s tariffs.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, who will sit down on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” has said he has talked to multiple countries since Trump decided to roll back most of the tariffs.
Meanwhile, House Republicans on Capitol Hill were busy this week trying to pass the Senate’s budget framework, which they succeeded on Thursday.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who backed the Senate plan and will appear on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday,” will likely touch on Congress’s efforts to pass the president’s legislative agenda.
Read the full Sunday show list here and follow along below for today’s updates.
What the Supreme Court’s ruling on man wrongly deported to El Salvador says about presidential authority and the rule of law
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The Supreme Court on April 10, 2025, unanimously upheld the lower court order directing the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego García, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.
The Supreme Court also directed the lower court to clarify aspects of the order.
“The order properly requires the Government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego García’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador,” the Supreme Court order states.
It is undisputed that the Trump administration made a mistake .
The Justice Department admitted to deporting Abrego García to a maximum security prison in El Salvador even though an immigration judge in 2019 ordered that he not be deported . The judge did so under an immigration law called “withholding of removal ,” which is a protection, like asylum, for people facing persecution in their home country.
But the Trump administration has said a court cannot order it to fix its mistake and bring Abrego García back to the United States .
According to the Trump administration, such an order would be “constitutionally intolerable.” The government has compared the court order to return Abrego García to an order to “‘effectuate’ the end of the war in Ukraine or return hostages from Gaza .”
Abrego García should not have been deported
Abrego García received this protective legal status six years ago . That’s when he proved to the court he was highly likely to be persecuted by the government or gangs in El Salvador due to a specific reason, as required under immigration law.
Unlike asylum or refugee status, the status known as “withholding of removal” is not a pathway to citizenship . It allows a person to live and work in the U.S. indefinitely and not be deported to their country of nationality if they face persecution there.
The government states it arrested and deported Abrego García on March 15 because he is a gang member. When Abrego García appealed his deportation, the federal district and appellate courts determined that the government provided no credible evidence of gang membership .
That’s important, because the government failed to follow proper procedure to deport Abrego García based on gang membership. When someone is in “withholding of removal” status, the law requires the government to reopen immigration proceedings based on new evidence and seek to formally terminate the legal withholding status.
Abrego García should have been notified of the government’s desire to deport him, and he should have had the opportunity to make his case at a court hearing. His summary deportation to El Salvador likely violated his right to due process under immigration law and the Constitution .
Balance of powers are at stake
The government did not follow the law, but it argues that the court cannot do anything about it .
The crux of the government’s position is that a court does not have the power to order the release of a person in a foreign prison . That would interfere with the separation of powers among the executive and judicial branches. The president has the sole power to conduct foreign relations with El Salvador , and the government has argued that ordering the return of Abrego García interferes with that power.
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The court cannot order the Salvadoran government to do anything, but it can order the U.S. government to take steps to return García Abrego if he was unlawfully arrested and deported. That’s because the judiciary has the power to determine whether the president’s actions are lawful .
The district court’s order was based on its determination that the president has likely violated immigration law and the Constitution in arresting and deporting Abrego García. The appellate court agreed.
The Supreme Court has now said the order to facilitate Abrego García’s return is proper. But the high court also said the district court judge should further clarify its order , being mindful of the president’s authority when it comes to conducting foreign relations.
Who is detaining Abrego García?
The Salvadoran government seems to be imprisoning Abrego García at the request of the U.S. government .
Trump administration lawyers have suggested in their briefing to the Supreme Court that there could be reasons under El Salvador law for Abrego García’s imprisonment. The government has not identified any reasons and has not provided any evidence that Abrego García is charged with a crime in El Salvador, or that he is being held under Salvadoran law.
The Department of Homeland Security routinely contracts with local jails and for-profit prison corporations to temporarily house immigrant detainees in the U.S. The government has reportedly agreed to pay El Salvador US$6 million to imprison certain U.S. immigrant detainees for one year. The details of this agreement are not known.
Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary, has said that the Salvadoran megaprison is “one of the tools in our tool kit that we will use .”
The district and appellate courts determined in this case that the U.S. is using the Salvadoran prison like any other detention facility . Under those circumstances, the U.S. government, not El Salvador, has ultimate control over Abrego García.
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As an immigration law scholar , I believe that the government can take steps to return Abrego García.
In fact, other appellate courts have ordered the government to return immigrants who had been removed from the U.S. but later won their appeals of their removal orders. Those people were not in foreign prisons.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has created a formal policy for aiding the return of immigrants who were deported while their appeals were pending and then subsequently won their appeals.
The government has argued that those situations are different. Here, it claims the court cannot demand the return of Abrego García, who is imprisoned in another country. The problem with the government’s argument is that it is the Trump administration that put Abrego García in a foreign prison.
The Trump administration has also argued that Abrego García is not entitled to return to the U.S. . It has argued that even though it was a mistake to deport him to El Salvador under his withholding of removal status, Abrego García could have been removed to another country and has no right to return to the U.S. .
This would be true if Abrego García voluntarily left the U.S. or was deported to a country other than El Salvador, but that is not what happened. The government removed Abrego García to El Salvador in violation of U.S. law.
The White House’s position in this matter is troubling because the president is supposed to enforce the law, not circumvent it.
As Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a separate statement published with the order and joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson: “The Government’s argument, moreover, implies that it could deport and incarcerate any person, including U.S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene.”
What steps the government will take to return Abrego García is unclear. The Supreme Court’s decision leaves open the question of how far the court can go to enforce his return.
Jean Lantz Reisz , Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic, University of Southern California
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