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April 19, 2025 – PBS News Weekend full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

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4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Saturday on PBS News Weekend, the Supreme Court temporarily blocks Trump from carrying out new deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. Then, a new study finds carcinogens in some of the most popular synthetic braiding hair being marketed to Black women. Plus, 30 years after the Oklahoma City bombing, we speak with a firefighter captured in a photo that came to symbolize that tragic day. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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Tonight on PBS News Weekend, the Supreme Court temporarily blocks President Trump from carrying out new deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.

0:15.0

Then, a new study finds carcinogens in some of the most popular synthetic braiding hair being marketed to black women.

0:23.5

And 30 years after the Oklahoma City bombing, we speak with a firefighter captured in a photo that came to symbolize that tragic day.

0:31.5

I was just thinking that, you know, somebody's world, somebody's world is going to be turned upside down today.

0:50.7

Good evening. I'm John Yang. In an unusual late-night order, the Supreme Court temporarily

0:56.8

barred the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants being held in Texas using

1:02.0

an 18th century law called the Alien Enemies Act. The brief unsigned order came in response

1:07.9

to an emergency petition filed by the ACLU just hours before.

1:12.9

Justice's Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented. It's the latest chapter in the

1:18.1

challenges to President Trump's deportation strategy, which are being fought out in a number of

1:23.1

federal courts. Amy Howe covers the Supreme Court for her website, Amy Elhaw.com, and for Scotis blog,

1:30.2

she's also argued cases before the Supreme Court. Amy, what exactly did the court do today,

1:35.9

and maybe just as important, what didn't they do? So what the court did was the court barred

1:41.9

the federal government until the Supreme Court says otherwise

1:45.7

from removing Venezuelan migrants who are at a particular detention facility, really. The case

1:54.1

comes out of the Northern District of Texas where a facility known as the Blue Bonnet detention

2:00.1

facility in Anson, Texas is located.

2:02.8

And so lawyers from the ACLU had come to the Supreme Court filing an emergency appeal,

2:09.2

asking the justices to block the removal of Venezuelan migrants from that facility to El Salvador. And the Supreme Court at 1 a.m. on Saturday morning issued an

2:22.9

order that said until further notice from this court, the federal government can't remove anyone

2:29.0

from this district. The Supreme Court hasn't said anything about the substance of the president's order,

2:36.3

which he issued back in March, relying on this alien enemies act, this 1798 law that gives

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