Good morning. It's Tuesday, May 20th.
I'm Shamita Basu.
This is Apple News Today.
On today's show, the upcoming GOP bill may have hurt the U.S. credit rating.
Another airport near miss makes America's air traffic issues unignorable.
And a second high-profile exit at CBS News made tensions with Trump.
But first, yesterday, the Supreme Court gave the administration permission to terminate the temporary protected status
former President Biden had granted to about 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants.
This had given them legal rights to work and live in the U.S. as their home country was deemed unsafe or impossible to return to.
The Trump administration is planning to end similar rights for 500,000 Haitians later this year.
Although border crossings are down substantially,
President Trump is working to fulfill his promise of deporting millions of people.
According to the Brookings Institute,
the best available data indicates that daily deportations are below Biden-era levels,
in part because of the lull in border activity.
But conflicting data from government agencies makes it difficult to know the true number.
One way the administration is trying to boost its numbers is by detaining people at routine and mandatory immigration check-ins.
The Guardian analyzed immigration arrests made during Trump's first month in office
and found roughly 1,400 happened during ICE check-ins or right after.
That's around 8% of the total arrests made during that time.