Trump’s expulsion program occupies the front of the stage: from the political bureau

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In today’s edition, we explore how the mass deportation efforts of President Donald Trump are under pressure in various ways. In addition, Steve Kornacki explores the history looming on the potential political return of the former vice-president Kamala Harris.

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Trump’s expulsion program occupies the stage

President Donald Trump and the GOP face renewed pressures from courts, democrats and public members to the US government wrongly expelling a man from Maryland to a prison in El Salvador.

Here are the latest developments:

In the courts: The judge who presides over the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia suggested that she weighed an outrage procedure against the Trump administration, Gary Grumbach and Dareh Gregorian Report.

US District Judge Paula Xinis ordered the administration to provide evidence on the measures taken to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia, as it had ordered, saying that the government had shown it “nothing” to date.

Democrat action plan: Democratic legislators say they are ready to go to Salvador to seek the release of Abrego Garcia, a plan that won steam after the country’s president said during a white house visit on Monday that he would not send the man in the United States, Report Megan Lebowitz and Frank Thorp V.

Senator Chris Van Hollen, D-MD., Sent a letter on Monday to the El Salvador ambassador to the United States to request a meeting with the president of the country, Nayib Bukele, who said during the meeting with Trump later in the day that he “of course” would not send Abrego Garcia to the United States in the United States

Van Hollen said that if Abrego Garcia was not in the United States by “in the middle of the week”, he “went to Salvador this week to check his condition and discuss his release”.

The idea obtained the support of several Democratic legislators, including Maxwell Frost representatives from Florida and Yassamine Ansari from Arizona, who said they would be ready to join Van Hollen during the trip.

Senator Dick Durbin in Illinois, the best democrat of the judicial committee, also sought to put pressure on the Republicans.

“The time has come for my republican colleagues to intensify,” He said in a press release. “You can no longer remain silent in the face of a constitutional crisis. You must join the Democrats to respond to this madness and demand that Mr. Abrego Garcia be sent immediately to the United States. ”

Heat of the town hall: GOP senator, Chuck Grassley, faced a decline in a town hall in southeast Iowa about the deportation of Abrego Garcia, Kate Santaliz reports.

The participants began to shout “a regular procedure!” to Grassley after having said that he would not bring ABREGO GARCIA because it is “not a power of the congress”. After more cries, Grassley blamed the president of El Salvador, saying that he was “not subject to our Supreme Court”.

Zoom out: Trump administration officials push immigrants to leave the United States on their own will, or “self-driving” because the number of people that the government expels from inside the country remains stagnant, well below the vision of mass deportations promised by the president, Julia Ainsley reports.

Immigration and customs application expelled just over 12,300 immigrants from March 1 to 28, slightly under the 12,700 people it expelled during the same period last year, according to ice data obtained by NBC News. Ice expelled around 11,000 people in February.

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The obstacles to which Kamala Harris faces in an attempt to return potential

By Steve Kornacki

The possibility that Kamala Harris could seek a quick return in the California governor’s race next year continues to be increased.

Since leaving the office, the Harris camp has aroused interest in a potential candidacy. Two weeks ago, the former vice-president used a Speech in his country of origin To declare: “I’m not going anywhere.” And recent election suggest Democratic voters of the state retain largely positive feelings towards it.

The ultimate decision of Harris is a key variable for national democrats, because it would also be a logical candidate for the presidential appointment in 2028 of the party. In “Meet The Press” on Sunday, Senator Cory Booker, a potential presidential candidate, Questions avoided On another Harris White House offer.

Between the two options, the governor of California seems the obviously more achievable objective for Harris, given his familiarity to voters and the overwhelming Democrat curvature of the state. Among democratic voters, polls show that it would be the first choice for the moment, but the field is still formed and the recognition of names is a major factor.

The open primary system of state adds another variable. The candidates take place all on the same ballot, whatever its affiliation of the parties, the two best votes which are headed for the general elections. This raises the possibility that, if Harris was heading for a general election for the governor of California, she could have to face a democratic colleague.

In theory, this could be a concern against a candidate like Rick Caruso, a rich businessman who asked for the mayor of Los Angeles in 2022 with a campaign that emphasized crime, homelessness and quality of life. A former Republican, Caruso was visible In the aftermath of the devastating fires this winter and could call on voters on both sides of the aisle – if he had to present himself and go to the general elections.

There is also an uncomfortable story here for Harris, who would not be the first former vice-president of losing a presidential race to turn around and seek the best job of California. Richard Nixon had been senator and member of the California congress before becoming No. 2 of Dwight Eisenhower.

After losing narrowly in front of John F. Kennedy in the race to succeed Ike, Nixon embarked on the race of the Governor of California of 1962. At the beginning, it seemed to be child’s play: a The July 1961 survey found it 16 points in advance outgoing Democrat, Pat Brown. Nixon saw him as a chance to put a victory to the board of directors before running for the president in 1964, but these first feelings of the electorate gave way to a return victory of Brown, who beat Nixon of 6 points.

Since then, two other vice-presidents have sought to relaunch their careers after losing offers from the White House. Hubert Humphrey, who, as vice-president of Lyndon B. Johnson, lost against Nixon in 1968, recognized a seat of the American Senate in Minnesota in 1970. Like Nixon in California, Humphrey always dreamed of the presidency, but he was a deeply admired figure in Minnesota and the result was never in doubt.

Minnesota was also the framework of the extremely brief and late return effort of Walter Mondale in 2002. The former vice-president, who had been crushed by Ronald Reagan during the 1984 presidential election, was recruited by Democrats as an emergency candidate after the death of Senator Paul Wellstone in a plane crash. Mondale entered the race a week before election day and narrowly lost against the Republican Norm Coleman.

It’s all of the political bureau for the moment. Today’s newsletter was compiled by Adam Wollner and Bridget Bowman.

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