White House defends policies on immigration, university funding, tariffs

WASHINGTON – The White House was dealing with changes successful policies connected tariffs, immigration, and activism astatine universities.

President Donald Trump said connected Monday that car companies “need a small spot of time” to relocate accumulation aft helium announced 25% automotive tariffs.

Karoline Leavitt, the White House property secretary, said it was “atrocious” that Democrats were defending “illegal migrant pack members” and cited the lawsuit of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Also connected Tuesday, Jennifer Vasquez Sura said the feds shattered her family’s American Dream erstwhile national agents took Abrego Garcia, her husband, connected March 12 successful Maryland successful beforehand of their 5-year-old child.

“Today is 34 days aft his disappearance,” Vasquez Sura said connected Tuesday astir the 29-year-old begetter of three’s deportation to a situation successful El Salvador contempt a judge’s 2019 extortion order.

The Trump medication defied a court’s bid for his instrumentality and attributed the deportation to “an administrative error” and alleged that Abrego Garcia was an MS-13 pack subordinate and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said Abrego Garcia was a terrorist.

“Based connected the sensationalism of galore of the radical successful this room, you would deliberation we deported a campaigner for Father of the Year,” Leavitt said.

The Trump medication has besides been terminating the F-1 visas of planetary students successful Florida and astir the state without adjacent a announcement to look successful migration court.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who was calved successful the West Bank, and Mahmoud Khalil, who was calved successful Syria, some co-founders of the Palestinian Student Union astatine Columbia University. A national justice ruled connected Friday that Khalil tin beryllium deported.

The Trump medication has asked universities to assistance curve the activism related to the Israel-Hamas warfare nether the menace of cutting grants and contracts. Leavitt said Trump is not going to tolerate antisemitism astatine universities.

Harvard University, which has a $53 cardinal endowment, was defiant and the medication held $2.2 cardinal successful grants and $60 cardinal successful contracts.

“Why are the American taxpayers subsidizing a assemblage that has billions successful the slope already,” Leavitt said.

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