Trump Administration Immigration and Travel Updates

From the New York Times, it's the headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today's Thursday, july second. Here's what we're covering So the air alarms went off a little before eight o'clock last night We started hearing air defenses firing around nine or ten bit of a rat hot tat sound And then we heard one very, very big boom. That was the start of a lot of booms over the course of the night My colleague, Cassandra Vinigrad is in Kyiv, where Russia hammered the city overnight with deadly waves of drones and ballistic missiles The Ukrainian authorities were telling everyone to stay in shelters, stay in shelters because the attack was underway We heard a lot of explosions in the center of Kyv. And this continued for hours and hours we're hearing all this going on We're always monitoring telegram channels. and so images started coming out of an apartment building on fire. And then we heard that the roof of a hotel was on fire and the reports just kept coming in Through dawn, we were hearing explosions and emergency workers and rescuers were already responding and rushing to respond to strike sightes even as more booms were being heard. Finally at around seven AM They lifted the air raid alarm. so we were under air raid alarm for over eleven hours. And now there's a lot of smoke over the city this morning and you can smell the strikes in the air at the moment. It's this very specific smell after a strike Early this morning, Ukrainian authorities say at least seventeen people were killed and dozens were injured. Cassie says many in Keeiv had been bracing for this kind of large scale assault in retaliation for Ukraine increasingly hitting Russia. Recently, advances in drone production and technology have allowed Kyiv to launch bigger and bigger strikes against Moscow and against Russian oil infrastructure and supply lines Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the goal is quote, bringing the reality of the war back to Russia. with the idea that exposing more Russians to the pain of the conflict pressure on Vladimir Putin to negotiate a deal Putin, however, has dug in. saying that Russia's assault on Ukraine will continue. In Iran, government officials are making their final preparations for a massive funeral for the country's former suupreme leader. months after his death Millions of people are expected to turn out to mourn Ayatoi Alihaminee. who was killed in U. S. Israeli airirstrikes in February at the start of the war. It's highly unusual for a burial to be delayed this long in Muslim culture underscoring just how much Iran has been disrupted by the conflict Now the government is hoping to present the funeral as a moment of national unity and a kind of show of resistance One Iranian official said the funeral represents, quote The beginning of a new era in the Islamic Republic It's expected to be a week long spectacle spanning at least five cities Tehran has declared a three day holiday starting Saturday with Hamani's body lying in state, then proceeding through the city The ceremonies and the body will then move to other cities across Iran and Iraq Hamanei had many devoted Shiite Muslim followers in nearby countries And one expert on Iran told the Times that bringing the ceremonies across borders is quote a way of symbolizing Iran's regional influence and power Massive crowds are expected along the route But many people in Iran still deeply oppose the regime Hamani oversaw brutal repression, torture, killing of dissidents, and widespread corruption And some Iranians openly celebrated when he was killed Some had hoped the war would bring regime change. But it was Haminei's son, Ayatolla Moshtaba Haminee, who was tapped as the new supreme leader He hasn't been seen in public since he was chosen for that role though And it's unclear whether he'll appear at the funeral Now two quick updates on the Trump administration First The Department of Homeland Security says IC agents arrested thirty nine people in Wisconsin over the weekend. In the last week, there's been a major surge in immigration arrests across the US with IC agents detaining more than ten thousand people accccording to interviews with federal officials and documents obtained by the Times ICE was told that the White House wanted an increase in arrests and that two thousand arrests a day was the new standard That's roughly double what the arrest rate had been earlier this year. And in a statement, a Dpartment of Homeland Security spokeswoman said Our message is clear If you come to our country illegally, we will find you, we will arrest you, and we will deport you The new push is taking place without the Trump administration drawing a lot of attention to it like they did with the highly visible operations in big cities before It's part of Homeland Security Secretary, Mark Wayne Mullin's pledge for a quieter enforcement campaign. following the chaos in Minnesota, where federal officers killed two U. S. citizens during operations It's unclear how long this new surge will last One immigration attorney the T timees spoke to in Utah said it's left her clients afraid and on edge. quote, People don't want to leave their houses. They are afraid to drive to do their grocery shopping Also So this will be the First flight what I think is maybe the greatest commercial plane ever built Yesterday, President Trump boarded the new Air Force O jet gifted to him by the Qatari Royal familyam for the first time The plane, which he took for a trip to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota, is worth about two hundred million dollars His decision last year to accept the gift from the goovernment of Qatar attracted a lot of scrutiny over whether a foreign government was trying to influence Trump The U.S. government then poured hundreds of millions of dollars into making it secure enough to carry the president. According to senior administration officials, the plane will be donated to Trump's presidential library when he leaves office and could potentially be available for his personal use Trump has said it would have been, quote, stupid not to accept the gift since other planes that had been ordered from Boeing to replace Air Force One had been repeatedly delayed and have still yet to be delivered These are extremely dangerous conditions And they will affect every part of our city In New York and many other cities, officials are preparing for what could be a record breaking heat wave. Temperatures will climb into the high nineties and triple digits. with a heat index that could peak around one hundred and twelve degrees Cities have opened cooling centers and sent out vans staffed by nurses doing wellness checks on vulnerable residents ER doctors are staring down a double whammy The fourourth of July weekend always brings a surge of patients with fireworks injuries Now they're bracing for people suffering dehydration and heat stroke. In the US, extreme heat is the leading cause of weather related deaths The heat's already been hitting in many places According to the National Weather Service, as of today More than two hundred thirty million people in the US Cotas to Boston, down to Miami are likely to experience dangerous conditions And finally, let me identify each of you, mayay have you by name, just not a faceless group. Victor Willis, I love you. And that's Victor The lead singer of the village peopleeople, Victor Willis, has died at age seventy four campy disco era band, Willis was the one often dressed as a police officer They're on stage alongside a construction worker, a cowboy, etcetera Critic for the The Times once described Willis as the only quote overt musician in the group which had a string of massive hits with YMCA and Macho Man both of which Willis co wrote Raised in San Francisco, Willis later moved to New York to act and perform, and he frequented a YMCA. which helped inspire the song. It became a karaoke staple and a go to hit at weddings, even for uncles that can't dance. Over the years, there were a lot of sometimes heated discussions about what the song meant peopleeople had long embraced it as a gay anthem the lyrics calling to hang out with all the boys But Willis, for his part, threatened to sue news outlets that called it that He said he didn't mind gay people adopting the song, but that hed never intended it as that More recently, the song became the soundtrack to Trump rallies as the president danced along I got a lot of calls and a lot of emails from people that were like really upset by the fact that they thought that we were endorsing Trump In interviews, Willis, who performed as part of Trump's second inauguration, maintained he was not endorsing the president's policies And he said that he believed music should be, quote, not preserved for one political side Those are the headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford, and there is no show tomorrow for the holiday That means no full quiz this week, but we will give you one question before we go This weekend is the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of the United States. As part of the festivities, the federal government is baring a time capsule. Each state got a chance to put something in be dug up way, way, way in the future I'm going to give you three items that are in there, and you tell me the state that contributed them to start bit of fabric from the Wright Bothers' first flight. That's Ohio, Kind of a trick because the flight took place in North Carolina. but brothers were from Ohio Next, a message etched into a whale bone That's Maine And last one Bolo tie That's New Mexico, coming in with a fashion contribution The Bolo tie is the official state tie of New Mexico Because every state needs a state tie That's it for the week. The headlines will be back on Monday.