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The New York Times [3/22/2025 4:23 PM, Shawn McCreesh, 145325K] reports Venezuela announced Saturday that it had reached an agreement with the Trump administration to resume accepting deportation flights carrying migrants who were in the United States illegally, with the first one landing as soon as Sunday. Part of Venezuela’s willingness to accept the flights appeared related to the plight of Venezuelan migrants whom the Trump administration recently sent to notorious prisons in El Salvador with little to no due process. In a statement on Saturday, a representative for the Venezuelan government said: “Migration isn’t a crime, and we will not rest until we achieve the return of all of those in need and rescue our brothers kidnapped in El Salvador.” The White House did not respond to a request for comment Saturday, though one of the president’s close allies, Richard Grenell, said earlier this month that the Venezuelans had agreed to accept the flights. Venezuela’s autocratic leader, Nicolás Maduro, suspended the deportation cooperation after the Trump administration revoked a Biden-era policy that allowed more oil to be produced in Venezuela and exported. Since the suspension of the flights, Mr. Maduro has come under intense pressure from the Trump administration, which has been pressing various Latin American nations to take in more deportees. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on social media that Venezuela would face new “severe and escalating” sanctions if it refused to accept its repatriated citizens. Venezuelans have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in record numbers in recent years, in response to the economic and social crisis consuming the nation, which Mr. Maduro blames on U.S. sanctions against his regime. The agreement to resume the deportation flights comes after the Trump administration invoked an obscure wartime authority from 1798 called the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, whose strongman leader agreed to accept the migrants, putting them in prisons where conditions are so nightmarish that many experts say they constitute human rights abuses. The use of the wartime authority has emerged as a flashpoint in a broader struggle between federal judges across the country, who have sought to curb many of Mr. Trump’s recent executive actions, and an administration that has come close to openly refusing to comply with judicial orders. The AP [3/22/2025 6:37 PM, Staff, 13342K] reports that the Venezuelan leader also said that he held the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, responsible for the well-being of the Venezuelans deported to that country. “You guarantee their health and, sooner rather than later, you have to hand them over and release them, because they are kidnapped,” Maduro said. Trump alleged the deportees were members of the Tren de Aragua gang. He labeled the Tren de Aragua an invading force on March 15 when he invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a little-used authority from 1798 that allows the president to deport any non-citizen during wartime. Bloomberg [3/22/2025 1:39 PM, Staff, 3973K] reports that the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had briefly halted acceptance of US deportation flights in retaliation for the move against Chevron. The White House didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment. Maduro is anxious that Washington continue to allow Chevron to function in the country, since the oil major now supplies about one-fifth of Venezuela’s crude output and generates a significant proportion of the economy’s hard currency. Trump is ratcheting up pressure on Maduro to quickly make a deal over democratic reforms and accepting the return of more Venezuelans who had migrated to the US. In the space of a few years, the US president has gone from threatening sanctions unless Maduro resigns to threatening sanctions unless Venezuela agrees to deportation flights, according to Geoff Ramsey, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington. “At this point, it seems almost certain that the wind-down deadline for Chevron will be extended, and perhaps, in time, become permanent,” Ramsey said. He added: “The White House seems to be acknowledging a sad truth: The Maduro government is not weak and is not going anywhere anytime soon, and if Washington wants to advance certain immigration and energy interests, it needs to reach some basic agreements with the authoritarian government in Caracas.”

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The Washington Examiner [3/22/2025 6:40 PM, Staff, 2296K] reports the U.S. Northern Command announced it will be deploying the USS Spruance, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, near the southern border as part of its border security operations. In a press release, NORTHCOM said USS Spruance left Naval Base San Diego on Saturday afternoon and will now patrol waters off the West Coast. Its mission will be to combat "maritime related terrorism, weapons proliferation, transnational crime, piracy, environmental destruction, and illegal seaborne immigration.” The release added that the vessel will be accompanied by a law enforcement team from the U.S. Coast Guard, which leads the government’s efforts to defend and control the maritime environment off the U.S. coasts and has tripled its forces operating on the southern border since the start of the second Trump administration. This is the second guided missile destroyer deployed to the waters near the U.S.-Mexico border after the U.S. military sent the USS Gravely to the Gulf of America last weekend to crack down on illegal drug smuggling and immigration. That deployment has already proved successful after the U.S. Coast Guard announced this week that it has interdicted over 80,000 pounds of illegal drugs since President Donald Trump entered office. NORTHCOM Commander Gregory Guillot said the addition of the USS Spruance will bring "additional capability and expands the geography of unique military capabilities working with the Department of Homeland Security.” "With Spruance off the West Coast and USS Gravely in the Gulf of America, our maritime presence contributes to the all-domain, coordinated DOD response to the Presidential Executive Order and demonstrates our resolve to achieve operational control of the border," Guillot added. The USS Spruance was previously stationed in the Middle East until December 2024 to combat the Houthis, a Yemeni terrorist group that has disrupted commercial shipping in the Red Sea. Trump has made eliminating the Houthis a priority, with strikes launched just last weekend resulting in the deaths of many of the group’s members. FOX News [3/22/2025 9:30 PM, Alexandra Koch, 46189K] reports Coast Guard officials told Fox News Digital earlier this month that hundreds of migrant boat encounters were logged near the San Diego coast in the last 90 days, prompting the allocation of additional resources. Spruance will bring maritime capabilities to the U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) in response to executive orders signed by President Donald Trump, a national emergency declaration and clarification of the military’s role in protecting the territorial integrity of the U.S. Newsweek [3/22/2025 8:34 PM, Adeola Adeosun, 3973K] reports Sean Parnell, Pentagon Chief Spokesman: "It’s not only vital for the United States to have control of our border via land. It’s equally important to control our territorial waters, and this deployment directly supports U.S. Northern Command’s mission to protect our sovereignty.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously underscored the importance of border security: "Border security is national security." [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

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NBC News [3/22/2025 1:51 PM, Megan Lebowitz, 44742K] reporst the Trump administration is moving to end temporary legal status for more than 530,000 people who arrived in the U.S. from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela through Biden-era temporary parole programs, according to a Federal Register document posted on Friday. The parole programs are set to end on April 24, 30 days after the document is expected to be officially published in the Federal Register on Tuesday. People who had parole under these programs "must depart the United States before their parole termination date," the document said. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote in the notice that her department’s termination of the parole programs "directly" fulfills Trump’s order and "complements and underscores the Administration’s pivot to a foreign policy that prioritizes the United States’ interests in a secure border." The Department of Homeland Security will work to "remove" people who entered the U.S. under the programs and do not leave before the parole is terminated. USA Today [3/22/2025 7:44 PM, Bart Jansen, 75858K] reports that the program called Temporary Protected Status provided a haven in the U.S. for 532,000 immigrants under the Biden administration in 2022 and 2023, according to government figures. Advocacy groups for the migrants estimate 600,000 Venezuelans and 500,000 Haitians now participate in the program. At least three federal lawsuits are pending in an attempt to block the end of the program. Some migrants may have found other programs to remain in the U.S. About 75,000 of the migrants applied for asylum, meaning they feared persecution in their home countries. By terminating their work permits and deportation protections, Kristi Noem, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, invited the migrants to deport themselves or potentially face removal by government authorities. The program for the four countries is slated to end 30 days after a notice is published in the Federal Register on Tuesday. Among the federal lawsuits fighting to continue the program, a hearing is scheduled Monday in federal court in northern California on a motion to speed up the sharing of evidence. The program is scheduled to end for Venezuelans on April 3, with migrants subject to deportation April 8, according to court records. A hearing is scheduled in federal court in Massachusetts for a Haitian case on April 1. Jose Palma, co-coordinator of the national TPS Alliance, called Trump’s move to undermine the program “racist and inaccurate.” “Haitian TPS holders, like all TPS holders, are lawfully present here pursuant to protection granted because it is not safe for them to return to their country right now,” Palma said in a statement. Viles Dorsainvil, a plaintiff in one of the lawsuits from Springfield, Ohio, said the Haitian community "faced unrelenting stigmatization by government officials." "Stripping us of our legal status is the latest attack on Haitians, and one that cannot be allowed," said Dorsainvil, the founding director of Haitian Community Help & Support Center.

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AZCentral [3/22/2025 8:02 AM, Daniel Gonzalez, 4457K] reports the Trump administration has canceled a contract that provided legal representation for undocumented children in immigration courts. Without legal representation, these children will be forced to navigate complex legal proceedings on their own, facing trained government attorneys. The Florence Immigrant & Refugee Project received notice on March 21 that the program that provides legal services and representation to migrant children who arrived unaccompanied by parents or legal guardians had been almost entirely shut down, Deputy Director Roxana Avila-Cimpeanu said.

The Hill [3/22/2025 8:25 AM, Filip Timotija] reports President Trump on Friday deflected when asked if he signed the order to invoke the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century wartime law, to deport Venezuelan migrants allegedly linked to the Tren de Aragua gang. The president could have also been referencing border czar Tom Homan and Attorney General Pam Bondi, who have also defended the government’s actions after U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled the administration could not invoke the 1798 law. The 4-page proclamation to invoke the 1789 law appears to have been signed by the president, according to a copy filed in the Federal Register. The White House statement, however, seems to contradict what Trump told journalists earlier. The Washington Post [3/22/2025 1:40 PM, Matt Viser, 31735K] reports President Donald Trump told reporters Friday evening that he did not sign the controversial proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act to quickly deport migrants his administration says are violent gang members from Venezuela. Trump’s signature appears on the digital image of the proclamation available for viewing with the Federal Register, the government repository of official documents. And White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said late Friday that Trump did personally sign the proclamation. But rather than say that the president misspoke, Cheung said Trump’s claim that he “didn’t sign it” was a reference to the law passed 227 years ago and not the more recent document — an explanation immediately questioned on social media given that reporters had specifically asked about the newer proclamation. Many of the migrants deported have no criminal records in the United States.

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Telemundo [3/22/2025 9:51 PM, Staff, 2454K] reports the government of Donald Trump - which faces several lawsuits in court for actions such as the suspension of the refugee resettlement system, attempts to eliminate the constitutional right to birthright citizenship or the deportation without court hearings of those it accuses without evidence of crimes - now wants to proceed against lawyers and law firms. The Administration issued a directive Friday night, made public until this Saturday, directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to sanction lawyers if the Government believes they are conducting litigation or lawsuits that it believes are "frivolous, unreasonable or pernicious" against federal agencies or officials. The memo also states that further disciplinary action, such as a complaint to revoke a lawyer’s license to practice, should be taken if it is believed that any lawyer is "breaking rules about what claims are meritorious" especially "for cases involving national security, public safety, or electoral integrity". The document has put legal scholars on alert, as it was released at a time when the federal government itself has been criticizing judges for doing their jobs and suggesting that the judiciary cannot stop presidential actions despite the fact that the United States has a system of checks, balances and equilibrium that establishes that the courts can deliberate on many of these issues. Among the possible sanctions that the directive envisions against lawyers is to stop awarding federal contracts to the firms and law firms where those lawyers work, or to take away their access to classified government information - something that many lawyers require to confirm whether, for example, their clients were in a diplomatic building where there were health problems. The directive does not clarify what the government believes to be "frivolous" claims.

Miami Herald [3/22/2025 7:38 PM, Ana Ceballos, 3973K] reports South Florida congressional members say they are concerned for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans suddenly under threat of deportation now that the Trump administration is ending a program that gave more than 500,000 immigrants a temporary legal pathway into the United States. “Let’s give them the opportunity to apply for the protections they were promised,” Republican U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar said in a statement Saturday afternoon. The Department of Homeland Security on Friday announced that it will shut down the Biden-era humanitarian parole program known as CHNV – an acronym for the four countries enrolled – in late April. More than 531,000 people had been approved to enter the United States and stay for up to two years under the program, with Florida receiving 80% of the arriving migrants, according to the current administration. The move will give people who do not have some other form of legal immigration protection, such as a pending asylum application, 30 days to leave the United States. After that, people who came to the United States through the parole program will be prioritized for deportation, and will no longer be able to legally work in the country. The Trump administration said the program – created as a means to help reduce illegal immigration from countries in crisis — is ineffective and “inconsistent” with the president’s foreign policy agenda. But several members of South Florida’s congressional delegation told the Miami Herald that immigrants who came here legally – including 75,000 who subsequently filed for asylum – shouldn’t be punished. Salazar, who has supported elements of Trump’s immigration crackdown, blamed former President Joe Biden for putting Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in “legal limbo.” But she said Trump should give people affected by the revocation of the program a chance to plead their case to stay.

NBC News [3/22/2025 7:00 AM, Chloe Atkins and Daniella Silva, 52868K] reports Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate student who was arrested and detained because of his pro-Palestinian activism, is scheduled to return to court next month in his battle with the Trump administration over his possible deportation. His case has become a test of President Donald Trump’s pledge to combat antisemitism and deport noncitizen college activists who the Department of Homeland Security said "led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization." U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman of the Southern District of New York ruled Wednesday that Khalil’s legal challenge to his detention should proceed in federal court in New Jersey, where he was briefly held when his attorneys filed a petition alleging his arrest and detention violated his right to due process and his First Amendment right to free speech. Furman said his order blocking the government from deporting Khalil will remain in effect as the case proceeds. Khalil has a separate deportation case in Louisiana, where he appeared for a brief court hearing Friday as his lawyers challenged his arrest and detention, arguing the government’s decision to send him away to the remote facility in Jena, Louisiana, impeded their ability to represent him.

CBS San Francisco [3/22/2025 10:52 PM, Matthew Rodriguez, 51661K] reports police in Mexico arrested Yolanda Marodi for allegedly killing her wife, Cal Fire Captain Rebecca Marodi, last month. The month-long manhunt started in late February after San Diego County Sheriff’s deputies found Rebecca’s body inside the couple’s Ramona home. The Department of Homeland Security said that Yolanda drove across the border while traveling with a small white dog after her wife’s death. Mexico’s Baja California Citizen Security Secretariat agents located Yolanda near a Mexicali Hotel near the U.S.-Mexico border. She was subsequently handed over to American law enforcement. Yolanda allegedly killed her wife on Feb. 17 after the couple had an apparent argument. Investigators said that Rebecca’s mother called 911 after hearing the Cal Fire captain struggle with another person over a Ring camera live feed. In the video, a voice can be heard yelling out, "Yolanda, please, I don’t want to die." Rebecca then appears in the video with what looks to be blood on her back, authorities said. "You should have thought of that before," Yolanda said to her. Previously, Yolanda was convicted and spent years in prison for stabbing her previous spouse, James Joseph Olejniczak to death in San Bernardino County in 2000. She served more than 13 years for criminal charges that included voluntary manslaughter, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. She was released in 2013 and moved to parole supervision. The victim’s ex-wife, Lilia Phleger, said the couple had what she described as a "toxic relationship," with Yolanda Marodi showing signs of jealousy during their relationship. "You don’t ever want somebody that you once cared for so much to suffer," Phleger said. "For this to happen to Becky, in our home, this was the home we lived in together. It’s just unfathomable."

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Washington Post [3/22/2025 5:32 PM, Jacob Bogage and Jeff Stein, 31735K] reports the Internal Revenue Service is nearing an agreement to allow immigration officials to use tax data to confirm the names and addresses of people suspected of being in the country illegally, according to four people familiar with the matter, culminating weeks of negotiations over using the tax system to support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign. Under the agreement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement could submit names and addresses of suspected undocumented immigrants to the IRS to cross-reference with confidential taxpayer databases, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of professional reprisals. Normally, personal tax information — even an individual’s name and address — is considered confidential and closely guarded within the IRS. Unlawfully disclosing tax data carries civil and criminal penalties. However, tax information may be shared with other federal law enforcement under certain, limited conditions — and typically with approval from a court. It would be unusual, if not unprecedented, for taxpayer privacy law exceptions to be used to justify cooperation with immigration enforcement, the people said. The proposed agreement has alarmed career officials at the IRS, the people said, who worry that the arrangement risks abusing a narrow and seldom-used section of privacy law that’s meant to help investigators build criminal cases, not enforce criminal penalties. According to portions of a draft of the agreement obtained by Washington Post, ICE access to tax data would be limited to confirming the addresses of immigrants with final removal orders. Requests could be submitted only by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem or acting ICE director Todd Lyons, the memo says, and must include the name and address of each taxpayer, the date of their order for removal and other identifying information that would allow the IRS to verify the taxpayer’s identity. The agreement would authorize data verification for people “subject to criminal investigation” for violating immigration law.

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Yahoo! News [3/22/2025 4:34 PM, Sylvia Mphofe, 52868K] reports a joint agency operation resulted in the arrest of 15 suspected gang members in D.C. Four different agencies teamed up to conduct an operation in the district targeting suspected gang members involved in ongoing criminal activity. According to officials, the operation resulted in the arrest of 14 TdA members, one MS-13 member and the recovery of a firearm. The whereabouts of the arrested suspects is unknown at this time.

Univision [3/22/2025 12:19 PM, Staff, 5325K] reports it was just another day for young Salvadoran Kevin Zaldaña Ramírez, who was on his way to work at a construction site in the Houston area, when ICE agents arrived and took him away. This was on February 25th, the young man had his work permit, and this didn’t stop the agents from detaining him for almost a month. He has the humanitarian protection of Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, known in English as SIJS. But in February, when ICE arrived at his workplace, Kevin tried to explain his case number to them, but they allegedly told him it was fake. He was in danger of deportation, held in the custody of immigration authorities. They supposedly told him he had an active deportation order, but that’s not true.

Newsweek [3/22/2025 6:24 PM, Mandy Taheri, 52220K] reports Lewelyn Dixon, a green card holder who immigrated to the United States from the Philippines five decades ago, is being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Washington state, her niece Emily Cristobal told Newsweek via email on Saturday. Newsweek has reached out ICE and Dixon’s lawyer for comment and confirmation via email on Saturday. Dixon’s reported detention comes amid an immigration crack down under the Trump administration. President Donald Trump has pledged to carry out the largest mass deportation in U.S. history, a key campaign promise that received widespread backing from his Republican base and others. While most Democrats oppose Trump’s approach, many agree on the need for immigration reform. Trump has said that most detentions and deportations would target individuals with criminal records. However, in recent weeks, there have been multiple reports of people with valid documentation and no criminal convictions being detained for deportation. Cristobal told Newsweek that her 64-year-old aunt, who she calls "Aunty Lyn," was "first detained by Customs Border Patrol on February 28 and was being held at SEA-TAC [Seattle-Tacoma International] airport." She was returning from a trip to the Philippines. Dixon immigrated to the U.S. from the Philippines when she was 14. On March 2, Dixon was "transferred to the Northwest ICE Detention Facility." The Northwest ICE Processing Center (NWIPC), which is privately owned by the GEO Group, holds over 1,500 detainees, and has been open since 2004. Newsweek was unable to locate Dixon’s information in the ICE Detainee Locator database. Cristobal said her family has not "been informed of anything by ICE," relating to the reasoning for her aunt’s detention. She said members of her family have visited Dixon at the center. Cristobal works as an office manager for Hawaii state Representative Tina Nakada Grandinetti. On Friday, the state legislator spoke in support of a local immigration-related bill and highlighted Dixon’s story. Speaking in support of SB816, to establish a program to provide legal representation for individuals facing immigration-related court proceedings, Grandinetti said Dixon "is a Green Card holder, a permanent resident who is legally allowed to live in the United States.” The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) says that a green card holder has the right to live permanently in the U.S. provided they do not commit any actions that "would make you removable under immigration law." This includes breaking laws and not filing taxes. If visa or green card holders are found to be violating immigration rules or U.S. law, they can face deportation or removal.

San Diego Union Tribune [3/22/2025 8:03 AM, Blake Nelson, 1682K] reports around 8 a.m. on Wednesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement showed up at a homeless shelter in downtown San Diego. At least one ICE agent stopped at the gate outside, according to Alpha Project CEO Bob McElroy, who oversees the site at 16th Street and Newton Avenue. The shelter is a large tent that holds hundreds of bunk beds, although the agent’s warrant appeared to be for a single individual. ICE took one person into custody from the downtown shelter. It was not immediately clear what the warrant said — or where it was issued — and a spokesperson for the San Diego Housing Commission said they didn’t currently have a copy. Agents did not seem to be looking for information about other residents, according to McElroy.

CNN [3/22/2025 9:00 AM, Catherine E. Shoichet] reports immigration lawyer LaToya McBean Pompy says this growing fear is the biggest issue she sees among her clients who have green cards. About 12.8 million green card holders live in the United States, according to the latest estimates from the Office of Homeland Security Statistics. And some of them were taken by surprise when authorities detained a former student protest leader at New York’s Columbia University earlier this month.

Washington Examiner [3/23/2025 5:00 AM, Anna Giaritelli, 2296K] reports U.S. Border Patrol agents have pivoted back to their national security mission following the White House’s immediate success in getting illegal immigration levels down to historic lows. At the height of former President Joe Biden’s border crisis that lasted from 2021 to 2024, agents were far outnumbered by illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Agents were pulled from the border to drive vans full of immigrants back and forth to stations for processing, watch over rooms of people in holding cells, and make baby formula for unaccompanied infants, one rank-and-file agent recounted to the Washington Examiner. The border surge resulted in historically low morale. "I was processing for over a year continuously. We had a quota," the agent, speaking on the condition of anonymity, wrote in a text message Friday. "You have to process so many people and then you have to stop to either provide them with a snack or provide them with diapers or their kids’ milk. It was very, very, very frustrating.” In the 60 days since President Donald Trump took office, agents have found themselves back in the jobs they signed up to do, rather than stuck with menial tasks, and finally getting a breather, even as they take on serious national security operations that went by the wayside. "We are in the field and are enforcing laws, and there are consequences now," the same agent said. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks detailed to the Washington Examiner in an exclusive interview how the agents’ mission has shifted with the decline in illegal border crossings. "We’re taking a total approach on this. We’re enforcing the law, we’re increasing the consequences. So what you see now is the probability of detection, apprehension, and then a consequence being delivered," Banks said in a Zoom interview from the agency’s Washington headquarters.

AP [3/22/2025 1:01 PM, Michael R. Sisak] reports an Orthodox Jewish passenger says a United Airlines pilot forcibly removed him from an airplane bathroom while he was experiencing constipation, exposing his genitalia to other flyers during a flight from Tulum, Mexico, to Houston. Yisroel Liebb, of New Jersey, described his trip through allegedly unfriendly skies in a federal lawsuit this week against the airline and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, whose officers he said boarded the plane upon landing and took him away in handcuffs. Liebb and a fellow Orthodox Jewish traveler said they were forced to miss a connecting flight to New York City while U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers paraded them through an airport terminal, placed them in holding cells and searched their luggage.

CBS News [3/22/2025 12:07 PM, Nicole Sganga, 51661K] reports after firing more than 200 probationary workers from the nation’s federal disaster relief agency, the Trump administration has taken its first step to dismantle the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) just months ahead of hurricane season. In an email labeled, "Hiring Update" and obtained by CBS News, FEMA informed employees on Friday night of a new hiring process that overhauls contract renewals for more than two-thirds of the agency’s workforce, requiring all employees to submit requests for further extensions to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for approval. The decision has created confusion among the ranks of thousands of employees impacted, with fears that the new process will effectively gut the majority of FEMA’s workforce over the next two to four years by forcing employees to reapply for their jobs through the agency’s overseers at DHS.

Bloomberg [3/22/2025 4:56 PM, Ellen M. Gilmer, 3973K] reports most Federal Emergency Management Agency employees will need Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s approval to stay on the job after their current terms expire, paving the way for significant staffing reductions as President Donald Trump seeks to shrink federal agencies. FEMA announced the policy change Friday, stipulating that all renewals and extensions of term positions are subject to the secretary’s approval, according to a memo obtained by Bloomberg Government. That includes reservists, temporary full-time employees, local hires, and on-call response employees who make up the bulk of the disaster agency’s workforce. “In order to get American citizens the rapid relief they deserve and demand, we are cutting out wasteful spending and bureaucracy that slows down relief efforts,” Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “FEMA has implemented a full hiring freeze and instituted a DHS review process for all disaster-field positions that are up for renewal.” The cuts follow Trump’s broader efforts to slash the federal workforce. He has targeted FEMA explicitly, saying the agency should be restructured or even eliminated following complaints about its response to recent disasters in North Carolina and California. He created a council in January to explore overhaul options and issued an executive order promoting greater state and local involvement in emergency management. Friday’s memo, first reported by CBS News, leaves the fate of most FEMA workers in Noem’s hands, as their employment terms reach expiration. Reservists and on-call workers made up nearly 80% of agency employees, as of fiscal 2022. Reservists deploy as needed for emergency management response and Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employees are a separate category of workers who work directly on disaster response and recovery efforts.

CBS Philadelphia [3/22/2025 4:38 PM, Jessica MacAulay, 51661K] reports fire crews are working to contain a wildfire that broke out in Wharton State Forest in Waterford, New Jersey, on Saturday, officials said. The New Jersey Forest Fire Service is currently responding to the blaze, named the California Branch Wildfire, which has expanded to 100 acres and is 0% contained, the agency shared on social media. NJFSS officials said 18 structures near the wildfire are currently threatened, but fortunately, the blaze is moving away from the homes. There are also multiple road closures in effect within Wharton State Forest as rescue crews continue to battle the blaze including Raritan Avenue, Old Atsion Road and 5 Mile Crossing. The NJFFS said crews have begun a backfiring operation to help contain the fire. An observation helicopter is also on the scene. No local evacuations are in effect. The cause of the wildfire is also under investigation.

Yahoo! News [3/22/2025 11:33 PM, Kamryn Scrivens, 52868K] reports fire crews are working to contain a wildfire in Wharton State Forest this weekend. The fire has spread to at least 1,000 acres. On Saturday, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service began tackling a large wildfire in Wharton State Forest in Waterford Township, Camden County, in the area of Raritan Avenue and Old Atsion Road. The wildfire crossed the Mullica River and began burning in Shamong Twp., Burlington County Saturday night. As of 11 p.m. Saturday, the fire has spanned 1,000 acres and is 20 percent contained. Though officials say the fire appears to be moving away from homes, at least 18 structures are in proximity to the fire. Goshen Pond Campground and Atsion Family Campground were both evacuated. The following roads were closed due to the wildfire: Raritan Ave, Old Atsion Road, 5 Mile Crossing and Goshen Pond. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Officials have not released information regarding any injuries. The New Jersey Forest Fire Service will provide another update Sunday morning.

AP [3/23/2025 2:36 AM, Staff, 34586K] reports wildfires forced a mandatory evacuation in one North Carolina county as emergency crews fought separate fires in an area of the state still recovering from Hurricane Helene, while South Carolina’s governor declared an emergency in response to a growing wildfire. The North Carolina Department of Public Safety announced a mandatory evacuation starting at 8:20 p.m. Saturday for parts of Polk County in western North Carolina about 80 miles (128.7 kilometers) west of Charlotte. “Visibility in area will be reduced and roads/evacuation routes can become blocked; if you do not leave now, you could be trapped, injured, or killed,” a social media post by the agency warned residents of specific roads. The public safety department said a shelter had been established in Columbus, North Carolina. The North Carolina Forest Service’s online wildire public viewer indicated three active fires in Polk County, with the two largest spanning between 1,100 and 1,240 acres (445 and 502 hectares). Two other fires were active in nearby Burke and Madison counties, with a third wildfire burning in Stokes County on the northern border with Virginia. In South Carolina, Gov. Henry McMaster declared a state of emergency Saturday as part of an effort to stop a blaze in Pickens County called the Table Rock Fire that started the previous day in an area within the Blue Ridge Mountains. “As this wildfire continues to spread, the State of Emergency allows us to mobilize resources quickly and ensure our firefighters have the support they need to protect lives and property,” McMaster said in a statement that reinforced a statewide outdoor burning ban issued Friday by the South Carolina Forestry Commission. Local fire officials called for voluntary evacuations Saturday of some residents near Table Rock Mountain, the forestry commission said in a social media post. The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office posted an update late Saturday saying crews had ceased operations and would resume Sunday morning with ground personnel and machinery and assistance from helicopters and air tankers. The fire was about 110 acres (44.5 hectares) and the public was asked to avoid state Highway 11.

Yahoo! News [3/22/2025 7:03 PM, Cassie Fambro, 52868K] reports several wildfires burned across the Piedmont Triad Saturday after the North Carolina Forest Service issued a statewide burn ban. Wilkes County EMS shared video with FOX8 of a wildfire along the mountainside of Old Highway 16 near the Wilkes and Ashe County line. It is currently 100 acres, and it is only 50 percent contained. Crews are being challenged by high winds and low humidity. They’re working with the North Carolina Forestry Service, the Wilbar Fire Department, Wilkes County Emergency Management and other agencies to fight the fire. There is also an ongoing fire in a wooded area at the Stokes County/Rockingham County line approaching 100 acres with heavy smoke visible. Stokes County Public Services, volunteer fire departments, forestry officials and other first responders are battling that fire this evening, and we have reached out for updates. The statewide ban on open burning remains in effect until further notice.

Yahoo! News [3/22/2025 6:11 PM, Tim Renaud, 52868K] reports an illegal burn is believed to have sparked a Saturday afternoon brush fire in the Huger community. The Cainhoy Fire Department responded to Saint Irving Drive in Huger for "wildland fire" around 2 p.m. Once there, firefighters found a large brush fire that was exposed to several residences. Additional crews and forestry officials were called in to assist. "Crews from Cainhoy and mutual aid departments worked to protect five homes and contain the fire," the agency said. "All homes were protected and received no damage. Upon the arrival of the forestry plow, a containment line was secured and the fire was placed under control. Approximately twenty acres of land were burned. All units cleared the scene at 4:13 p.m.” Fire officials said the cause was determined to be an illegal burn that spread into the adjacent woods and quickly grew out of control. The individual responsible for the fire was fined by SC Forestry, who issued a statewide outdoor burn ban Friday evening due to an increased wildfire risk. "This serves as a reminder of the importance of the current statewide burn ban. With the current weather conditions, fires will spread fast and quickly burn out of control. Please obey this burn ban until conditions improve and the ban is lifted," fire officials said.

Yahoo! News [3/22/2025 8:11 PM, Hallie Shuler, 52868K] reports officials are requesting areas near Table Rock to evacuate due to an ongoing wildfire. As of Saturday, due to high winds, low humidity, and increased fuel load from Helene debris, the fire was reported to have reached up to 100 acres, and containment remains at 0%. Out of an abundance of caution, local fire officials are asking for residents in close proximity to Table Rock Mountain to evacuate. Officials said that residents are not in immediate danger, but should still be notified of the possibility that the Table Rock fire could spread to their vicinity.

Yahoo! News [3/22/2025 5:53 PM, Faith Little, 52868K] reports brush fires have been reported across the region Saturday as high winds and dry conditions cause Red Flag Warnings to continue into the evening. According to the National Weather Service (NWS), Red Flag Warnings are in effect in the mountains of East Tennessee until 11 p.m. and in Smyth, Tazewell and Wythe counties in Virginia until 8 p.m. Virginia’s wildfire response viewing map indicates that the following fires were active as of 5:30 p.m. Saturday: Dickenson Co.: Brush Creek Fire; 1 acre, 100% contained. Washington Co.: Pickett Lane; 3 acres, 0% contained. A larger wildfire named "Big Glow Fire" in Lee County is considered contained and no longer active: Lee Co.: Big Glow Fire; 2,875 acres, 100% contained. Tennessee’s wildfire viewing map shows there were two fires listed as active in the region Saturday afternoon: Hawkins Co.: Harris Hollow Road; less than 1 acre, 0% contained. Johnson Co.: Claude Brown Lane; less than 1 acre, 0% contained. Outdoor burning is strongly discouraged during Red Flag Warnings, and cigarette butts are encouraged to be put out safely in an ashtray rather than thrown into a grassy area amid dry conditions.

Yahoo! News [3/22/2025 8:35 PM, Murry Lee, 52868K] reports a wildfire in Johnson County has grown to 40 acres, according to the Tennessee Division of Forestry. The state’s Wildfire Public Viewer states that the fire is located off of Claude Brown Lane. As of 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, the 40-acre wildfire was 0% contained and considered active. According to Storm Team 11, dry conditions and high winds have elevated the fire risk across the region.

Dallas Morning News [3/22/2025 6:36 PM, Staff, 2778K] reports that, despite elevated wildfire threats in many parts of the state, most of the current blazes were under control, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. Texas has seen over 270 wildfires so far this year, based on the forest service’s data. And around two-thirds of them were recorded just this month alone, amid recent prime fire conditions of high wind and low humidity. Though for recent cases, the forest service reported that only a handful of the blazes have yet to be fully contained Saturday. From snow to 100-degree heat, we’ve got you covered. By signing up you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Among them, the Pauline Road Fire, which was first detected Wednesday in the Sam Houston National Forest north of Houston, was the largest. The fire was burning over 2,400 acres and was 75% contained as of Saturday morning, according to the forest service. It prompted the evacuation of about 900 homes and closed schools, the Associated Press reported. But by Thursday evening, Montgomery County Judge Mark Keough announced that residents in Montgomery and San Jacinto counties could return home and that just "two structures were lost.” Others are currently much smaller, ranging from a 524-acre fire in Marion County that is already 95% contained to the 20-acre fire in Lamar County that has no containment. The latter is in North Texas. Meanwhile, recent major fires that prompted evacuations in the Panhandle and Central Texas were fully contained as of Saturday. Some include the Windmill Fire in Roberts County and the Crabapple Fire in Gillespie County, which grew to almost 23,300 and 10,000 acres respectively. Still, the state is currently on wildland fire preparedness level 3. This means it is seeing an impact in several regions and might need additional resources from other agencies or states, according to the forest service. There are also burn bans in place in close to 150 counties in Texas.

CBS Austin [3/22/2025 12:00 PM, Grace Bellinghausen, 602K] reports a new bill aims to shift the $45 Million Palm Beach County taxpayer dollars spent protecting Presidential Trump to the Secret Service. Florida Congresswoman Lois Frankel and New Jersey Congressman Tom Kean introduced the Presidential Security Resources Reimbursement Act on Thursday. The bipartisan bill requires the Secret Service to pay for law enforcement and fire departments protecting President Trump while he’s in Palm Beach. When Trump is at his Mar-a-Lago estate, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office tells CBS 12 News it costs the department $240,000 a day to keep him safe. Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, Palm Beach County Fire Rescue, the Town of Palm Beach Police Department, and the City of West Palm Beach Police Department can anticipate $45 million in expenses incurred by the end of the year for the protection of Trump at the direction of the U.S. Secret Service.

The New York Times [3/22/2025 4:13 PM, Simon J. Levien, 153395K] reports one person died and three others were missing, including two children, after a small boat capsized on a river near Jacksonville, Fla., on Friday night, the authorities said. The U.S. Coast Guard received reports of an overturned vessel around 7 p.m. near Goat Island, which is north of Jacksonville. No one was wearing life jackets, according to a Coast Guard news release. Officials said that the people on board had set out to take photos of the sunset while on the St. Johns River, which is the longest river in Florida and winds through and around Jacksonville. The marine unit of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office rescued four boaters who were perched atop the overturned boat. There were four others thought to have been underneath the boat. Divers from the sheriff’s office did not find any people underneath the boat, however. “A Coast Guard Station Mayport rescue surface swimmer attempted to contact the people reportedly underneath the vessel but received no responses,” according to the news release. A crew from the sheriff’s office discovered a person in the water who was dead, said Capt. Eric Prosswimmer, a spokesman for the fire department. It was not immediately clear what caused the boat to capsize. Additional details about those on board were not released. NBC News [3/22/2025 9:57 PM, Austin Mullen and Mirna Alsharif, 5080K] reports the search for at least three people who went missing after an 18-foot boat capsized in Jacksonville, Florida, killing one person, was suspended Saturday night. The Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department responded to a report of a capsized vessel with multiple people in the water near Goat Island on St. Johns River around 8 p.m. Friday, Capt. Eric Prosswimmer told NBC News. Four people were on top of the boat and four more were possibly underneath it, according to the U.S. Coast Guard, which also responded to the incident. The four on top of the boat were rescued from the water, the Coast Guard said. One of those pulled from the river, possibly part of the group under the vessel, was “unresponsive," the agency said. “One of the four missing was found and unfortunately was deceased,” Prosswimme said. Officials did not identify the victim. The other three reported to have been under the boat were described as an adult and two minors, officials said.

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Michigan Live [3/22/2025 11:46 AM, Brandon Champion, 600K] reports one person is dead after a boat capsized on Lake Michigan. Conservation officers with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources are investigating the incident, which occurred near East Chicago at 1:30 p.m. on Friday. Two people fell into the water when the boat capsized, officials said. One victim, Steve Vandervelde of Oak Forest, Illinois, was pulled from the water by a nearby Good Samaritan. The second victim, Thomas Barragan, 73, of Oak Forest, was found by the Lake County Aviation Unit and recovered by a conservation officer diver at 3:20 p.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Response and search efforts were hindered by strong winds and large waves, with a water temperature of 37 degrees, officials said. The DNR was assisted by the Lake County Sheriff’s Department, United States Coast Guard, Hammond Fire Department, East Chicago Fire Department, Hobart Fire Department, Hammond Police Department, Whiting Police Department and Hammond Port Authority.

Wall Street Journal [3/22/2025 10:00 AM, Scott Shackelford] reports the U.S. is spending more than ever on cybersecurity, yet cyberattacks continue to proliferate. According to McKinsey, global losses to cyberattacks could exceed $10.5 trillion this year, a 300% increase from 2015 and an amount larger than the economies of Germany and Japan combined. I believe a new approach is needed—one in which the federal government plays a more assertive role. For at least two decades, U.S. cybersecurity policy has been stuck in a pattern of incremental tweaks focused on the same basic ideas—encouraging voluntary industry cooperation, offering information-sharing partnerships and establishing new bureaucratic offices. It isn’t working. We need bold changes, the most important of which is treating cybersecurity as a public good akin to national security and public safety. There is no one U.S. government agency in charge of keeping critical infrastructure safe. Instead, those responsibilities splinter across various groups. This often prevents urgent, coordinated action on evolving threats. To help fix this problem, Congress should clarify and expand the cybersecurity rule-making powers of agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission that regulate a range of industries and sectors. Whatever rules these agencies create to deal with common cybersecurity problems would apply across the economy and not have to be formulated sector by sector. Right now, there are 50 different state-level data breach-notification laws and no federal standard. That means whether and when you find out if your private data has been compromised depends in large part on where you live. The federal government does gather some breach data, but only in limited cases such as ransomware attacks. That needs to change.

NBC News [3/22/2025 1:41 PM, Austin Mullen, 44742K] reports three people were killed and 15 others were injured at "an unsanctioned car show" in a park in Las Cruces, New Mexico Friday night mass shooting, according to police. The Las Cruces Police Department said the shooting happened at around 10 p.m. at Young Park, over 200 miles south of Albuquerque. A preliminary investigation revealed an altercation between two groups at the car show escalated into gunfire, injuring many, including bystanders, according to Police Chief Jeremy Story. Two victims were killed as the scene and a third was pronounced dead at the hospital, according to Las Cruces Fire Chief Mark Daniels. The three victims are a 16-year-old boy and two 19-year-old men. Fifteen others were injured in the shooting, including seven victims who were treated on the scene and seven who were taken to area hospitals and then El Paso, Texas for further treatment, according to Daniels. Those injured ranged in age from 16 to 26, police said. No arrests have been made in connection with the shooting as of Saturday morning, but police are following "multiple leads." CNN [3/22/2025 4:48 PM, Zoe Sottile, 257K] reports New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said she was "heartbroken and horrified" by the shooting. The governor added she was "mobilizing state resources to support local law enforcement in their investigation" and that violent crime in Las Cruces has increased by 46 percent compared to last year. In a Saturday Instagram post, Las Cruces City Councilor and Mayor Pro Tem Johana Bencomo described the shooting as "a heinous act of violence that will leave our city mourning.” "My heart is broken for the victims and families impacted," she wrote. Las Cruces is located on the edge of the Chihuahuan Desert, around 41 miles north of the US-Mexico border.

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CNN [3/22/2025 2:23 PM, Shania Shelton, 908K] reports the Department of Defense is investigating "recent unauthorized disclosures of national security information" and plans to use polygraphs as part of the probe, according to a memo published to the department’s website Friday. "The use of polygraphs in the execution of this investigation will be in accordance with applicable law and policy," DOD Chief of Staff Joe Kasper wrote in the memo. "This investigation will commence immediately and culminate in a report to the Secretary of Defense.” Kasper wrote that "information identifying a party responsible for an unauthorized disclosure" would be referred for criminal prosecution. The memo comes after President Donald Trump pushed back on a New York Times report that DOGE head Elon Musk would be briefed on US military plans for a potential war with China while at the Pentagon on Friday. Trump said he wouldn’t show such plans "to anybody." Pentagon officials also resoundingly dismissed the reporting on social media. Musk did meet with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for over an hour Friday. The Defense Department is the latest government arm to announce it will use polygraph tests on employees. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said earlier this month her department will continue the practice after reports she directed polygraphs in the department to include a question about leaks to the media. She said she still believes there are leakers within the government, and they should "be held accountable.” "We have identified two leakers of information here at the Department of Homeland Security who have been telling individuals about our operations and putting law enforcement lives in jeopardy. We plan to prosecute these two individuals and hold them accountable for what they’ve done," Noem said in a video on X earlier this month. The Department of Justice on Friday announced its own probe into "the selective leak of inaccurate, but nevertheless classified" information related to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. "We will not tolerate politically motivated efforts by the Deep State to undercut President Trump’s agenda by leaking false information onto the pages of their allies at New York Times," Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement on Friday. "The Alien Enemies Proclamation is supported by fact, law, and common sense, which we will establish in court and then expel the TDA terrorists from this country."

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Reuters [3/22/2025 2:36 PM, Jason Lange, 24727K] reports the U.S. embassy in Israel on Saturday warned Americans there to avoid large gatherings and be prepared to seek shelter following an escalation of conflict in the country. "The security environment is complex and can change quickly," the embassy said in an alert posted on its website. "Be aware of your surroundings." The warning came as the Israeli army said it was attacking Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in a second wave of strikes, after intercepting rockets fired from across the border earlier in the day. Israel has also seen a series of large protests in recent days over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to dismiss the head of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence service.

New York Times [3/22/2025 3:30 PM, Aaron Boxerman, 145325K] reports rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel for the first time in months on Saturday, prompting Israeli forces to strike back hours later at sites in southern Lebanon it said were linked to the militant group Hezbollah. At least six people in Lebanon were killed in the Israeli bombardment and others wounded, according to statements from the Lebanese Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. The Israeli military said it had launched a second round of attacks on Saturday night. The attacks were the latest example of how the renewed Israeli offensive in Gaza was rippling across the Middle East. They also risk further disrupting the return of tens of thousands of displaced residents on both sides of the border who had fled more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. The Israeli military said that it had shot down three rockets from Lebanon with no reports of casualties. The volley was the first rocket attack since Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a cease-fire that was brokered by the United States and France late last year. Hezbollah denied involvement in the rocket fire, which followed Israel’s resumed offensive in Gaza this week against the Lebanese group’s Palestinian ally Hamas. Those Israeli attacks have already killed more than 600 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials, who did not say how many were combatants. After the Hamas-led assault on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which ignited the Gaza war, the militant group’s allies across the Middle East began attacking Israel in solidarity. Last year, that escalated into a full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah, in which Israel assassinated Hezbollah’s leadership and launched a ground invasion into southern Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold. The truce went into effect in late November and has largely held. Under the terms of the cease-fire, the Lebanese government is supposed to prevent armed groups like Hezbollah from attacking Israel from Lebanese territory. Lebanese leaders appeared eager to head off any new escalation with Israel. The Israel-Hezbollah war killed about 4,000 people in Lebanon and more than a million people fled their homes, according to the country’s authorities. Tens of thousands were still displaced as of mid-March, according to the United Nations.

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