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a federal appeals court has issued the latest ruling against the Trump administration's handling of an immigrant illegally deported to El Salvador.
The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals says the Trump administration is, quote,
asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process.
This case has already been to the U.S. Supreme Court, but it could return if the Trump administration appeals.
The Supreme Court says it will hear expedited arguments next month on the issue of birthright citizenship.
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says that all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. are American citizens.
The matter has been settled law for more than a century, but NPR's Nina Totenberg says President Trump disagrees.
Trump, however, has long argued that there is no such thing as automatic citizenship,
at least not for babies born in the United States if their parents were not born here.
So, on his first day in office, he issued an executive order banning birthright citizenship,
which was promptly challenged in court by a bunch of states.
NPR's Nina Totenberg reporting.
Every year, the U.S. State Department releases human rights reports on every country around the world.
NPR's Graham Smith tells us that this year there are major changes coming in these reports.
Internal State Department documents reviewed by NPR show the Trump administration is dropping multiple categories of human rights abuses from its annual country reports.
No longer will the U.S. call out governments for violations against the freedom to privacy,
the right to free and fair elections, or the right to peacefully assemble.
More than 20 kinds of violations are being stripped out, according to these documents,
to comply with recently issued executive orders from the White House.