Trump's Marathon Cabinet Meeting, Haro Parents Charged, New Details in Migrant Crash： AM Update 8⧸27
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It's Wednesday, August 27th, 2025, and this is your AM Update.
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Public safety is not just something that should belong to the wealthy.
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Cabinet officials meeting for three hours in front of the press,
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covering everything from the crime crackdown to what President Trump thinks about
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Parents of missing baby Emanuel Harrow appear in court
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as they are officially charged with his murder.
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We are not going to tolerate states that don't comply with the rules that come from this department.
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And Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy putting three states on notice
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for failing to enforce English proficiency requirements on commercial truck drivers.
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All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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in the face of indescribable evil and hatred to protect and save others?
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It's the remarkable true story of Joseph Bao, a gifted artist and master forger who risked his life
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There, he not only found the strength to survive, but also an unexpected love with Rebecca,
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Their secret wedding, held inside a concentration camp, was later immortalized in the film Schindler's List.
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President Trump hosting a marathon cabinet meeting yesterday,
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with the president touting the federal takeover of D.C. police,
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so far resulting in more than a thousand arrests and dozens of illegal guns seized.
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Many in the media hanging on to their narrative that crime in D.C. is not the problem the president insists it is,
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describing the move as an authoritarian federal overreach.
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However, President Trump did find at least one grateful member of the press corps
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inviting White House correspondent for New Tang Dynasty, or NTD News, Iris Tao,
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to share her personal experience with crime in the Capitol.
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So more than two years ago, it was a Saturday morning in broad daylight.
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I was on my way to work, and a young man with a black ski mask pointed a gun at my face
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and threatened me to hand over my phone, my wallet, my laptop, and everything else.
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And when I refused, he used the butt of his handgun to strike me across the face,
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in the cheek, or what some people call pistol-whip me, before running away.
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And that has deeply traumatized myself and my family.
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And I'm very grateful for God for allowing me to still survive to this day,
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but also to Mr. President, thank you for now making D.C. safer.
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For us, for our families, for my parents, on behalf of my parents,
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Fox News reporting, the administration is set to mobilize 1,700 National Guard troops
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across 19 states at the invitation of the respective governors.
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These operations, federally funded, though locally coordinated,
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part of an expanding effort by the administration to restore law and order in areas where it is badly
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President Trump calling out Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker for refusing to request National
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Guard mobilization in Chicago, which suffered 573 murders last year alone.
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I would have much more respect for Pritzker if he'd call me up and say,
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I don't love, not that I don't have the right to do anything I want to do.
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If I think our country's in danger, and it is in danger in these cities, I can do it.
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No problem going in and solving, you know, his difficulties.
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But it would be nice if they'd call and they'd say, would you do it?
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Typically, the National Guard is requested by a state's governor,
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though the president does have some limited authority to skirt that requirement.
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Any move around state leaders would certainly trigger a legal challenge,
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which Governor Pritzker has already indicated he would file.
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Vice President J.D. Vance framing public safety
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as the cornerstone of the administration's agenda.
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I happen to believe that maybe the most sacred thing that we can deliver to American workers
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is the ability to live safely and comfortably in their own neighborhoods.
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Public safety is not just something that should belong to the wealthy.
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It should belong to every working man and woman in the United States of America.
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And because of the work of this administration, that is happening.
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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem highlighting the staggering savings resulting from
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self-deportations amid the administration's immigration crackdown.
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Sir, you had 1.6 million people voluntarily go home to their home countries
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Because of your strong message and you enforcing the law,
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they decided to go home on their own so that they could come back the right way someday
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And the last thing I would say is that it's incredibly important to know that
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every one of those illegal aliens that has gone home,
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they were costing us about $8,700 to $9,000 a piece in what they were taking out of our social
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You've saved this country billions of dollars, about $15 billion just in what those illegal
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The subject of Lisa Cook also coming up at Tuesday's cabinet meeting.
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She is the Federal Reserve Board of Governors member who was referred for criminal investigation
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in mid-August by the nation's top housing finance regulator amid accusations that she
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Cook's lawyer saying on Tuesday she will challenge her firing in court.
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Cook saying she will not be bullied into resigning.
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She can only be fired for cause, which President Trump clearly thinks he has here.
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One reporter asking the president for his reaction.
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She seems to have had an infraction and she can't have an infraction, especially that infraction
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because she's in charge of, if you think about it, mortgages.
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And we need people that are 100 percent above board and it doesn't seem like she was.
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The president also commenting on the plans he announced Monday to allow up to 600,000 Chinese
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Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene questioning on X, quote,
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Why are we allowing 600,000 students from China to replace our American students' opportunities?
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And I'm getting along very well with President Xi.
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I think it's very insulting to say your students can't come here.
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I like that other country's students come here.
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If they didn't, our college system would go to hell very quickly.
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Now, with that, we check and we're careful and we see who's there.
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Fox explaining what the president meant by the college system
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would go to hell without foreign students to a skeptical Laura Ingram.
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How is allowing 600,000 students from the communist country of China putting America first?
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Well, the president's point of view is that what would happen if you didn't have those 600,000 students
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All the students would go up to better schools.
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And the bottom 15 percent of universities and colleges would go out of business in America.
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That just helped Harvard and UCLA and UCAL Berkeley.
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They're like basically factories of anti-American propaganda.
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Now they're getting a big influx of cash because of the Chinese students.
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I mean, I know President Trump has always been very pro-Chinese student.
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For the life of me, those are 600,000 spots that American kids won't get.
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And finally, the question Americans are dying to know the answer to, yes, it was asked by
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the press at the cabinet meeting, what is Donald Trump's reaction to Taylor Swift's engagement
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I have to tell you, the biggest pop culture news of the year broke while we were in this cabinet meeting.
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Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift are engaged and the world wants your reaction, sir.
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A diplomatic response as Taylor Swift not only endorsed Kamala Harris last year,
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but previously accused Mr. Trump of, quote, stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism.
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After Swift endorsed Kamala Harris, Trump posted online that he hates her.
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And in May posted that she is no longer hot following his earlier post.
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Coming up, parents of missing baby Emanuel Harrow officially charged with murder and an online
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petition in support of an illegal alien truck driver charged with killing three people while
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pulling an illegal U-turn racks up millions of signatures.
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The parents of missing baby Emanuel Harrow, 32-year-old Jake, and 41-year-old Rebecca Harrow
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each charged on Tuesday with one count of murder.
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Both defendants also charged with a misdemeanor for willingly filing a false police report.
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The criminal complaint alleging the murder was committed as early as August 5th, nine days
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Rebecca reported her seven-month-old son missing on August 14th, claiming she was attacked by
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an unidentified person who said hola before knocking her out and stealing her baby.
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Investigators executing search warrants at the Harrow home, seizing electronic devices
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and a vehicle, also collecting troves of security footage from surrounding businesses, quickly
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zeroing in on the parents, arresting them Friday morning on suspicion of murder.
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Jake spotted on Sunday afternoon in Moreno Valley wearing handcuffs and a red jumpsuit,
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escorted by investigators as they searched for the body.
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Private investigator Steve Fisher, who has been closely tracking this case, telling the
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Law and Crime Network Monday about the difficult task now facing the recovery team.
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How much could law enforcement find when it comes to actually locating the remains of Emanuel Harrow?
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Well, it's going to depend if he's above or below ground.
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So let's say he's above ground, which is what it looked like how they were looking yesterday.
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You know, we've been in a heat wave here, and this is already a hot part of Southern California.
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So 100 degree weather, you know, if it's been a month, a small child, a decomp process will happen pretty quick.
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And then also this type of area, there's predators out here.
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There's coyotes, mountain lion, there's all types of stuff out here.
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So and that we see in search and rescue all the time.
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You know, predators will spread remains and whatnot.
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However, cadaver canines can still pick up that scent.
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And, you know, so they would be able to find something.
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News Nation reporting that Jake and Rebecca's arraignment will take place on September 4th.
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Tuesday putting three states on notice,
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saying they are out of compliance with English Language Proficiency Requirements, or ELPs, for commercial drivers.
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Drivers operating across state lines must be able to read and speak English well enough to converse with law enforcement,
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understand traffic signs, and complete paperwork.
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Secretary Duffy issuing new guidance to enforce ELPs for truckers in May.
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The issue was thrust into the spotlight in August when an illegal migrant truck driver allegedly killed three people in Florida
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while pulling an unlawful U-turn earlier this month.
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The driver, 28-year-old Harjinder Singh, later failing an ELP assessment,
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according to DOT records providing correct responses to just two of 12 verbal questions
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and only accurately identifying one of four highway traffic signs.
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Despite his apparent inability to read and understand the language,
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Singh was granted a commercial driver's license in Washington and then again in California.
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We are not going to tolerate states that don't comply with the rules that come from this department.
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Those are the three states that have not complied with this rule.
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Which, by the way, this driver in Florida had received a CDL in Washington, California,
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and was pulled over in July for speeding and no doubt couldn't speak the English language.
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And law enforcement in New Mexico did not take his rig out of service.
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We are going to give these states 30 days to come into compliance with truck drivers speaking proficiently the English language,
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or we're going to look at federal funding that they receive under the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program.
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There are other actions that we can take to make sure states comply.
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And hopefully in the next 30 days, we won't have to withhold any money from them.
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The Secretary is saying California could lose $33 million in funding under the program,
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$10.5 million for Washington, and $7 million for New Mexico,
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with a promise of additional steps if these states resist.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom's press office responding on X, quote,
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The Trump administration approved the federal work permit for the man who killed three people,
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and now they're scrambling to shift blame after getting caught.
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Homeland Security has previously called this claim inaccurate,
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telling Fox's Bill Malusian that Singh was initially processed for expedited removal from the U.S.,
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then in 2019 was released into the country on bond with a pending asylum claim.
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He's remained in immigration proceedings ever since.
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DHS officials saying Singh was granted a work permit under the Biden administration.
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Singh has been charged in Florida with three counts of vehicular homicide.
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He required an interpreter for his court proceedings.
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ICE lodging a detainer to begin deportation proceedings once the Florida case is resolved.
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A Change.org petition, meantime, gathering more than three million signatures in support of, quote,
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The organizer's collective Punjabi youth, writing, quote,
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This was a tragic accident, not a deliberate act.
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While accountability matters, the severity of the charges against him does not align with the circumstances of the incident.
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The petitioner's hoping for, quote, restorative justice, counseling, or community service.
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The petition carries no legal weight in court and, of course,
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fails to mention the glaring no U-turn sign the driver ignored,
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pulling a stunt any driver would know, is begging for disaster.
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Trying to make the U-turn anyway, entirely blocking all lanes of traffic,
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announcing this week that the U.S. is halting work visas for foreign commercial truck drivers.
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