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(https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/trump-leavitt-deporting-us-citizens-el-salvador-sotomayor-rcna200299) White House floats deporting U.S. citizens. Justice Sotomayor just warned about that.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned potentially deporting American citizens who are violent repeat offenders “if it's legal.”April 8, 2025, 4:08 PM CDT

By Jordan Rubin

Responding to a question at Tuesday's daily briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned President Donald Trump's “idea” to potentially deport “violent” and “heinous” U.S. citizens, adding a seemingly important caveat: “If it's legal.”

It's not.

But that doesn't mean it can't happen. Indeed, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned just a day earlier of the possibility.

Dissenting from the Supreme Court's decision to grant emergency relief to the government in a case about deportations, Sotomayor wrote that the implications of the Trump administration's legal stance is that “not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal.”

The possibility also lurks in another appeal pending before the justices, in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was erroneously deported to El Salvador. Despite conceding an “administrative error” in sending him to that country, the government has resisted remedying the error. Supporting his return, constitutional scholars wrote to the high court that, if the government's position were correct, then “the Executive Branch would possess a shuddering degree of power — power that the President could wield in extreme and extraordinary ways, including against American citizens that the President simply disfavors.”

Leavitt's comments thus reinforce the importance of the court's forthcoming decision in Abrego Garcia's case, whose consequences could inform just how far this administration will go.

(https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-has-detained-citizens-as-part-of-mass-deportation-actions/) Trump Administration Has Detained Citizens as Part of Mass Deportation Actions

A new report doesn't include a definitive list, meaning there are likely many more examples of citizens being detained.

By Chris Walker, Truthout

Published April 7, 2025

President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a Make America Wealthy Again event in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 2, 2025.
Demetrius Freeman / The Washington Post via Getty Images

A new report highlights how at least seven U.S. citizens — but likely far more — have been detained, deported or otherwise targeted by the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign.

According to the report from The Washington Post, at least seven U.S. citizens across the country, including children, have been detained by the federal government's anti-immigrant operations since Trump took office. In some instances, individuals were detained despite showing identification demonstrating their citizenship status.

“As immigration officials become more indiscriminate about who they're targeting — all while they're pressured to deport people faster and to avoid immigration court proceedings — it creates a situation in which the possibility of illegally detaining and deporting a U.S. citizen rises immensely, because citizenship is not something that we can spot on people's foreheads,” said César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, a law professor at Ohio State University, speaking to The Post.

The publication documented numerous examples of citizens being targeted, including:

A man in Chicago who, after dining at a pizzeria following a day of submitting resumes to potential employers, was detained, handcuffed, and put into a van with other migrants, despite having his Social Security card on his person;
A family with mixed citizenship status detained at a Border Patrol checkpoint in South Texas, as they were rushing their 10-year-old daughter — a U.S. citizen — to the hospital, resulting in their being deported to Mexico, where they currently reside in hiding;
And a Virginia man who, while driving to his job with his coworkers, had his vehicle surrounded by armed immigration officials after they wrongly identified him as a migrant with a different name.

The U.S. government doesn't release data on how often citizens are detained for being suspected of living in the country without legal status. The information obtained by The Post is based on media reports, research institutes and oversight agencies, suggesting that the number of citizens who have been targeted is likely far higher.

(https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3368419/brussels-police-arrest-rubio-security-detail-supervisor-after-hotel-fight/)

EXCLUSIVE — A Diplomatic Security Service shift supervisor assigned to Secretary of State Marco Rubio's protective detail was arrested by Belgian police at a Brussels hotel last Monday after arguing with hotel staff and fighting with responding police officers. Later that week, Rubio stayed in the same place, Hotel Amigo, while attending NATO's foreign ministers meeting.

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Speaking on condition of anonymity, two sources with direct knowledge of the situation told the Washington Examiner that the agent in question was behaving erratically and became irate when hotel staff refused to reopen the bar beyond its normal hours. When staff, including the night manager, attempted to persuade the agent to return to his room, the agent became physically aggressive. Police were then called. The agent engaged in an altercation with numerous police officers, leading to his arrest. The agent was released from police custody later that day after intervention by the U.S. Embassy.
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(https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2eeggyppzo) Trump signs order to 'make America's showers great again'

The US president is ordering the energy secretary to rescind a change introduced by Barack Obama that restricted multi-nozzle showers from discharging over 2.5 gallons of water per minute overall.

This served "a radical green agenda that made life worse for Americans", the White House said, as Trump criticised the "ridiculous" amount of time he says it takes to wet his hair in the shower.