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Donald Trump’s lawless anti-immigration policy is costing him support. He’s only doubling down.

• President Donald Trump won reelection largely thanks to his polling strength on two key issues: the economy and immigration. But lately, both are becoming sore subjects for many voters. Americans are increasingly irate about his attempt to pilot the economy like a sugar-high child smashing every button in the cockpit (as I wrote yesterday). Now, they’re getting fed up with his despotic anti-immigration policies, too.

• Fresh polls show Trump has officially lost the majority of Americans on the issue of immigration. Half of Americans want Trump to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father mistakenly deported to an El Salvador mega-prison. (Go figure! Some people have decency!) Only 28 percent agree with Trump’s actions.

• Trump blinked on the economy, in the face of weakening markets. But he hasn’t changed course on immigration. The latest: The Trump administration flew a Venezuelan construction worker from Philadelphia to Texas for possible deportation… after a federal judge ordered that he cannot be removed from the country. This, of course, comes as Trump defies the Supreme Court’s order to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia. Another judge today ruled that Trump’s team must facilitate the return of a second deported Venezuelan man.

• Democrats fighting back are framing this as more than an immigration issue: “If Donald Trump chooses to defy the courts now and nothing happens, then he will be emboldened to keep doing so,” Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) told What A Day. “I think that’s why it’s garnered even more concern from Americans than other issues.”

• Four Democratic lawmakers, including Ansari, visited El Salvador this week to advocate for Abrego Garcia and Andry Hernandez Romero, a gay makeup artist who was also deported. They were denied a meeting with Abrego Garcia and told that no one has heard from Hernandez Romero since March 14.

• “They’re not making our border any safer. They’re just creating chaos and fear, and I think that’s really devastating to human rights and to our reputation around the world,” Ansari said.

Trump’s immigration policies are getting harder for his MAGA minions to defend.

• After her trip to El Salvador, Ansari spoke with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, an infamous MAGA apologist. The interview devolved into chaos after Ingraham called the visit a “political stunt,” and raised an unrelated case involving an immigrant charged with murdering his girlfriend. That’s the MAGA gameplan right now: Cherry-pick the worst allegations (proven or not) and avoid talking about due process, a constitutional right.

• “What we have seen from them is trying to completely distract and change the subject,” Ansari said. “They’ve gone on a full-fledged character assassination. It’s their typical playbook, but I think it also shows that they know they’re losing in the court of public opinion, in addition to the actual court.”

• Trump’s team was granted a slight reprieve in court last night, however: A federal judge overseeing Abrego Garcia’s case allowed the Trump administration a week-long pause to detail what steps it has taken to bring him back to the United States — if any. Abrego Garcia’s lawyers agree to the pause, which shows that both sides are trying to work something out, legal experts say.

Meanwhile, Trump is still shitposting on social media: “THE DEMOCRATS ARE FIGHTING LIKE HELL TO KEEP MURDERERS … IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THEY HAVE GONE CRAZY, AND ARE ONLY GETTING WORSE!!!” Are you sure Democrats are the ones who’ve gone crazy???

NEWS NEWS NEWS

Donald Trump rebuked Russia for airstrikes that killed nine people in Kyiv overnight. “Vladimir, STOP!” the president wrote on social media, addressing a nuclear-armed foreign dictator as if he were a rowdy goldendoodle. Meanwhile, the White House is considering lifting sanctions on Russian energy assets, in what I assume is Trump throwing Putin a treat for being a very good boy.

The Trump administration is weighing the removal of federal protections from six national parks, to open them up for mining and drilling. Those parks include Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon, Ironwood Forest, Chuckwalla, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Arizona, Utah, California and New Mexico. Well, a Big Oil executive is literally remaking the Interior Department, so I expect an oil derrick on the South Lawn at this pace.

Trump asked the Supreme Court today to allow the Pentagon to immediately ban transgender people from serving in the military. Two federal judges have already struck down the ban, saying that it’s likely motivated by discrimination and not the military’s needs.

Trump rejected the idea of raising taxes on millionaires, calling it “very disruptive.” This is awfully convenient, considering Trump nominated over a dozen super-rich twerps to powerful positions in his administration, after they contributed to his $239 million inauguration jackpot.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had Signal, the encrypted messaging app, installed on a desktop computer at the Pentagon, the Washington Post reports. Hegseth reportedly wanted to find a way to circumvent bad cellphone service in the building and communicate quickly with White House officials. Fun fact: Several Pentagon workers have lost their security clearances for waaaaay less severe offenses than Hegseth, who texted warplans to his wife. He’s a wife guy, can you blame him? (Yes!)

Americans shouldn’t freak out about the Food and Drug Administration’s temporary pause on testing milk for pathogens and other contaminants, according to health experts. “It’s an inconvenience,” one expert told the Post. “But ultimately, we’re a very highly regulated industry, and it’s going to continue to be very carefully regulated and monitored.” RFK Jr.s new motto: Got Paenibacillus bacteria?

The Democratic National Committee is in turmoil after Vice Chair David Hogg said he wants to raise millions of dollars to challenge Democrats through his own group, Leaders We Deserve. “No DNC officer should ever attempt to influence the outcome of a primary,” Chair Ken Martin told reporters today.

Trump is selling “Trump 2028” hats on his website. God help us, the man is selling anti-constitutional, pro-dictatorship swag.

Speaking of the lord, an Army pilot who sold LSD on the dark web hundreds of times argued in court this week that he had a religious right to do so. “The Divine guidance and instruction he had received while communing with LSD” caused him to sell the hippie-tripping drug during the pandemic, he argued in legal papers.

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