Jackson Sinnenberg

1 week ago | wamu.org | Natalie Yuravlivker |Jackson Sinnenberg

It has been one month since Prince George’s County resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported to a mega prison in El Salvador due to an administrative error by the Trump administration. The 29-year-old Salvadoran national came to the U.S. without legal status but his attorneys successfully argued in 2019 for him to receive court-ordered deportation protection due to his fear of retaliatory gang violence if he returned to his home country.

2 weeks ago | wamu.org | Esther Ciammachilli |Jackson Sinnenberg

Here’s a sneak peek at some of the stories WAMU will be highlighting in the days ahead:The Maryland General Assembly wraps up what has been, at times, an active and tumultuous legislative session on Monday. The year began with lawmakers returning to Annapolis and dreading the possibility of now-realized massive cuts to the federal workforce in Maryland by the Trump administration.

2 weeks ago | wamu.org | Esther Ciammachilli |Jackson Sinnenberg |Kojo Nnamdi

Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich is saying, “people are the collateral damage,” in response to the latest Trump administration’s firing of thousands of federal employees, including many at the Bethesda-based National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration offices in White Oak. On April 1st, thousands of Montgomery County residents were laid off by Elon Musk’s DOGE agency.

3 weeks ago | wamu.org | Jackson Sinnenberg |Esther Ciammachilli

Here’s a sneak peek at some of the stories WAMU will be highlighting in the days ahead:Topping the list of  news we’re monitoring this week – leaders in the District’s government are expected to react to President Donald Trump’s “Making D.C. Safe and Beautiful” executive order.

3 weeks ago | wamu.org | Esther Ciammachilli |Jackson Sinnenberg |Kojo Nnamdi

President Donald Trump signed executive orders this week that take aim at how American history is being presented at Smithsonian Institutions, and at an alleged crime problem in D.C.“President Trump has long vowed to crack down on crime in D.C., even though violent crime here is lower than it’s been in 30 years,” said WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi in a conversation about top stories from this past week. “Trump created the “D.C. Safe and Beautiful” task force, made up exclusively of federal officials.