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Mostly cloudy in Boston. It's eleven o'clock, forty six degrees. Happy Wednesday to you. I'm Nicole Davis, and here's what's happening starting in New Bedford this hour, where lawyers and loved ones are speaking out in defense of Juan Francisco Mendez. He was detained by ICE agents this week, but his attorney says they got the wrong guy. He's Tammy Mutussa with CBS News Boston.
They said they were looking for a certain individual by a different name, and I said, that's not my client. He said he has prior entries to this country. I said, that's not true. I know my client's history. That is not him.
The twenty nine year old has no criminal record. Rather, he's waiting for his final documentation to solidify his asylum status. Mighty Lew and their nine year old son are protected under asylum status after persecut in their home country of Guatemala.
They came to this country to live what they believe was the American dream to work hard, and all of their dreams and hard work is now they see for nothing.
All this coming is legal battles unfold over the mistaken deportation of a man from Maryland. More on that in a few moments, but first, at eleven oh one, we've learned a second immigration attorney in Massachusetts has mistakenly been ordered by ICE to leave the country. East Boston immigration attorney Carmen Bellow got a letter from Homeland Security, and in the letter it says she should self deport because
her parole will be terminated in a week now. Bella was born in the Dominican Republic, but has been a US citizen since two thousand and seven. Yesterday we told you about another attorney, Nicole Misharoni, who got the same email. Mischaroni, though has been here her whole life, she was born in Massachusetts. In response, Homeland Security confirmed the letters are real, but saying they might be sent to quote unintended receipents. End at eleven oh two. Developing this morning.
Today, the Department of Justice is announcing a civil lawsuit against the main Department of.
Education, Attorney General Pam Bondi, saying Maine is not complying with a federal push to ban transgender athletes from taking part in girls' sports. It is the latest move in weeks of feuding between the White House and Democratic Governor Janet Mills, and this has led to threats to cut off crucial federal funds to Maine. During a recent meeting of governors with the President, Governor Mills was confronted directly by the President over this, to which she said, quote,
We'll see you in court. She has also called the attacks against transgender athletes executive overreach. Meantime, overseas, Britain Supreme Court has issued a landmark ruling on gender.
I'm Vicky Barker in London, where the UK Supreme Court has just weighed in on a highly contentious issue.
Unanimous decision of this court is that the termswoman and sex in the Equality Act two thy ten refer to a biological woman and biological s.
But the justices maybe clear that they ruled on a very narrow point of law that trans women in the UK do have and will continue to have multiple legal protections here.
Advocates say the ruling, though, could have detrimental effects on the lives of transgender people in the UK. We have some clouds out there today and it's going to be a windy day. We're seeing the wind right now from the west or so about fifteen twenty miles an hour, So it's one of those days where it's not overly windy like we had those storms yesterday, but enough to
ruffle things around a little bit. We have temperatures right now, most of us in the forties, getting up to near fifty for the high today, some areas north and west maybe closer to forty five for tonight. Breezy, partly cloudy early than we clear out completely later on, with a low in the low to mid thirties if you're north and west and pushing forty if you're right by the coast.
Plenty of sun. Breezy tomorrow with the high rather than the mid to upper fifties, some mixing with clouds on Friday, with the high and the low to mid sixties, a little bit cooler on the Capan Islands at eleven oh five. Right now, we're at forty seven in Denvers, forty one in Worcester, forty eight at the Cape cog Canal, and in Boston it is cloudy and forty five degrees. Federal judge given the government two weeks to prove it is working toward getting a wrongly deported Maryland man back from
L Salvador. Kilmar Brego Garcia has been detained at an El Salvador Mega prison since last month, despite core order from twenty nineteen banning him from being deported. Here's ABC's Rachel Scott.
Judge Poulsenus declaring every day a Brigo Garcia spends in that prison as a day of further or reparable harm.
Justice Department lawyers insisting the administration is prepared to facilitate Abrigo Garcia's presence in the United States if he presents at a port of entry, but they argue they cannot compel Ol Salvador to release him from prison, even though the administration is paying El Salvador more than six million dollars to hold him there, along with more than two hundred other undocumented immigrants they claim without evidence or members of violent games and.
In new developments on this this morning. Just a short time ago, outside the Justice Department, Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters that Abrego Garcia is not returning to the country, continuing to claim he's a member of MS thirteen. Now, some congressional Democrats say they want to see what's happening in El Salvador for themselves. Senator Chris van Holland of Maryland right now is on his way to San Salvador.
The goal of this mission is to let the Trump administration to let the government of Al Salvador know that we are going to keep fighting to bring Albrego Garcia home.
Van Holland says he is trying to meet with government officials in El Salvador and trying to see Abrego Garcia for himself to check in on his well being. At eleven oh seven, the book collection at some military libraries is about to be pared down.
Army and Air Force libraries have been told to go through their books to find anything related to diversity, equity and inclusion. That's according to new memos obtained by the Associated Press. The orders from service leaders come about two weeks after the US Naval Academy remove nearly four hundred books from its library after being told to get rid
of those that promote DEI. They included books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights, and racism, as well as Maya Angelou's famous autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
And by the way quickly as the weather warms up. It means we're getting back into mosquito season. Officials in Norfolk County saying that over the next few weeks they're dropping a chemical called BTI over wetlands and two dozen cities and towns, which we'll say they're not one hundred percent sure when they're going to be doing the drops. It'll take about two days, could happen anytime between now and the month's end. You are now in the Loup.
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