Trump’s big moves lead to national controversies

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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks next to President Donald Trump, in the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 21, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Over the past few weeks, there has been a lot of breaking news in the Trump administration as reporters press Trump and his team over many issues. On March 15, Trump enforced the Alien Enemies Act from 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants without due process who are suspected to be members of Tren de Aragua, a violent gang operating throughout the Americas. He ordered three flights that carried more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants to an El Salvador maximum security prison called CECOT. The White House said that 137 of those immigrants were deported under the Alien Enemies Act and 101 immigrants were deported by regular proceedings, according to a CBS news article from March 26. However, there was a lot of controversy on how Trump used this law to deport immigrants without due process, and Judge James Boasberg from the D.C. district temporarily blocked Trump from deporting immigrants under this law. In addition, as the flights took off, a judge ordered the two flights that were in the air to return and for the third flight to not even take off, according to a CBS news article from March 26. Despite this statement by the judge, the Trump administration appeared to ignore this judicial ruling. 

In more breaking news, a classified information leak has erupted controversy throughout the country. According to a CNN article from March 25, prior to the attacks on the Houthis in Yemen on March 15, Jeffrey Goldberg, the Editor-in-Chief of the Atlantic magazine, was added to a group chat with high level members of Trump’s cabinet. Some of these group chat members included the National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Special envoy to the Middle East and Ukraine Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others, according to CBS article from March 28. According to Goldberg’s report, he was added to this chat by Mike Waltz and that there were many examples of sensitive, and seemingly classified information in the chat. Since this major mistake, it has raised questions on how our top intelligence leaders are dealing with sensitive, classified