Wrongly Deported, DOGE And Agency Data, Harvard Defies The White House

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🗓️ 15 April 2025

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Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele says he has no plans to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, an NPR report details unusual data events at the National Labor Relations Board, and Harvard University says that it won't comply with a list of demands from the Trump administration.

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0:00.0	The Trump administration seems to have no plans to bring back a Maryland man mistakenly sent to a prison in El Salvador.
0:08.7	Why don't you just say, isn't it wonderful that we're keeping criminals out of our country?
0:13.3	Is the administration defying the Supreme Court?
0:15.8	I'm Michelle Martin. That's Lila Faddle, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:21.1	A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board tells NPR that after Doge,
0:25.8	Elon Musk's Cost-Cunny group gained access to their servers, records were deleted,
0:29.5	and security tools were deactivated.
0:31.7	That doesn't just happen. Logs don't just disappear.
0:34.7	Tools don't just turn themselves off randomly.
0:36.9	Was the agency's data compromised?
0:38.9	And Harvard says it won't let the Trump administration dictate what it teaches, who it hires, or who it
0:44.2	admits. It's risking billions of dollars in federal funds by defying the demands. Stay with us.
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