The Independent: “The spelled-out ‘MS-13’ doesn’t appear on his hand in recent photos of Abrego Garcia posted on his wife’s TikTok account.”
Losing International Students Could Devastate Colleges
New York Times: “For years, American colleges and universities have attracted growing numbers of international students who often pay full tuition, effectively subsidizing domestic students.”
“But the Trump administration’s recent move to deport hundreds of students here on visas, and his trade war with China, have stoked fears that the United States is no longer a welcoming place for international students. This week, the administration also asked Harvard to hand over lists of foreign students, adding to a sense of panic on campuses.”
Obsessed With Elite Institutions They Want to Destroy
Jill Filipovic: “One of the more peculiar positions of the American right is its simultaneous obsession with and hostility to education, and particularly with elite educational institutions. Donald Trump has picked fights with Ivy League schools and talks about them as woke hellscapes; he’s also exceptionally proud that he has a degree from one, and judges others’ intelligence by which schools they attended.”
“Conservative culture warriors want to take over elite universities because those universities have such caché, even though in taking them over, conservatives would kill exactly what has made those institutions desirable and admirable: their dedication to rigor and excellence.”
Inside Trump’s Tariff Brain
“Stop trying to predict and appraise President Trump’s tariffs policies based on economic theories or market realities. Tariffs are pure psychology for the president, fused into his brain like no other topic,” Axios reports.
“Trump’s tariff brain is unpredictable to the outside (and to market analysts) but wholly knowable to those who know how his mind works.”
Said one adviser: “There’ll be trial and error. There’ll be pushing the envelope. There’ll be all of that Trumpian stuff.”
Putin Declares Easter Cease-Fire
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a pause to all military operations in Ukraine as part of an “Easter cease-fire” across the front lines, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Supreme Court Blocks Alien Enemies Act Deportations
“The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration early Saturday to temporarily halt the deportations of at least 30 alleged Venezuelan gang members who immigration advocates say were at imminent risk of being removed from the country,” the Washington Post reports.
Wall Street Journal: “The order came early Saturday after lawyers for the migrants asked the justices to step in on an emergency basis to halt their deportations as reports came that immigration officials began loading the detainees onto buses for deportation under the Alien Enemies Act.”
“Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the order.”
Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Harvard Confrontation
“Harvard University received an emailed letter from the Trump administration last Friday that included a series of demands about hiring, admissions and curriculum so onerous that school officials decided they had no choice but to take on the White House,” the New York Times reports.
“The university announced its intentions on Monday, setting off a tectonic battle between one of the country’s most prestigious universities and a U.S. president. Then, almost immediately, came a frantic call from a Trump official.”
“The April 11 letter from the White House’s task force on antisemitism, this official told Harvard, should not have been sent and was ‘unauthorized.’”
Barbara Lee Wins Oakland Mayor’s Race
Former Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) “was projected to win a special election to become the next mayor of Oakland, according to Decision Desk HQ, in what became a closer-than-expected race amid growing voter dissatisfaction over the direction of the city,” The Hill reports.
Pentagon Turmoil Deepens
“Joe Kasper, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff will leave his role in the coming days for a new position at the agency,” Politico reports.
“Senior adviser Dan Caldwell, Hegseth deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll, the chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, were placed on leave this week in an ongoing leak probe. All three were terminated on Friday.”
Judge Says He Can’t Block Alien Enemies Act Deportations
“A federal judge in DC told lawyers for migrants in Texas who believed the Trump administration is about to swiftly deport them under the Alien Enemies Act that he did not have the power to pause the deportations, even though he was concerned about the administration’s actions,” CNN reports.
Tim Walz Staffer Caught Vandalizing Teslas
“A member of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s administration has been repeatedly caught on camera allegedly vandalizing parked Tesla vehicles with his keys while out walking his dog,” the Daily Mail reports.
“Dylan Bryan Adams, 33, a fiscal policy analyst for the State of Minnesota, was captured on vehicle surveillance footage allegedly dragging a key across the exteriors of several Teslas, stripping paint and causing thousands of dollars in damage.”
Trump Advisers Took Advantage of Navarro’s Absence
Wall Street Journal: “On April 9, financial markets were going haywire. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wanted President Trump to put a pause on his aggressive global tariff plan. But there was a big obstacle: Peter Navarro, Trump’s tariff-loving trade adviser, who was constantly hovering around the Oval Office.”
“Navarro isn’t one to back down during policy debates and had stridently urged Trump to keep tariffs in place, even as corporate chieftains and other advisers urged him to relent. And Navarro had been regularly around the Oval Office since Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ event.”
“So that morning, when Navarro was scheduled to meet with economic adviser Kevin Hassett in a different part of the White House, Bessent and Lutnick made their move.”
Xi Jinping Is Ghosting Trump
“The global economy hinges on a phone call that hasn’t even been scheduled,” the New York Times reports.
“As the Trump administration escalates its trade war, and as China retaliates, the American president and his aides say they are expecting Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, to call.”
“But Mr. Xi is ghosting Mr. Trump. He has flown instead to Southeast Asia this week to meet with leaders there to try to persuade them to stand with China in the trade war.”
Officials Won’t Recommend Invoking the Insurrection Act
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will not recommend invoking the Insurrection Act in a memo the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security are preparing to send to President Donald Trump about the conditions at the southern border,” CNN reports.
“The Insurrection Act is a 19th century law that would allow the president to use active-duty troops within the United States to perform law enforcement functions such as arresting migrants.”
Tech Giants Agree to Sponsor White House Easter Egg Roll
“The White House has set up high-dollar partnerships with YouTube, Meta and Amazon, among others, for Monday’s Easter Egg Roll, underscoring the close relationships the leaders of those tech companies have sought to cultivate with the Trump administration,” CNN reports.
Quote of the Day
“It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all. The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the assemblage of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody, there is nothing that can be done. This should be shocking not only to judges but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from the courthouse still hold dear.”
— Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee and conservative icon, in an opinion about the Maryland man wrongly-deported to El Salvador.
Judge ‘Astounded’ Florida Cops Violated Her Order
“A federal judge on Friday said she was ‘astounded’ that Florida authorities violated her order blocking them from enforcing a new state law that targets undocumented immigrants who enter the state,” the Miami Herald reports.
“During a hearing in Miami federal court, it was disclosed that many as 15 arrests have been made by Florida law enforcement officers over the past two weeks in violation of her April 4 order.”
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