Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Mostly cloudy in Boston. It's eleven o'clock, forty six degrees.
Speaker 2: Happy Wednesday to you. I'm Nicole Davis, and here's what's
Speaker 2: happening starting in New Bedford this hour, where lawyers and
Speaker 2: loved ones are speaking out in defense of Juan Francisco Mendez.
Speaker 2: He was detained by ICE agents this week, but his
Speaker 2: attorney says they got the wrong guy. He's Tammy Mutussa
Speaker 2: with CBS News Boston.
Speaker 3: They said they were looking for a certain individual by
Speaker 3: a different name, and I said, that's not my client.
Speaker 3: He said he has prior entries to this country. I said,
Speaker 3: that's not true. I know my client's history. That is
Speaker 3: not him.
Speaker 1: The twenty nine year old has no criminal record. Rather,
Speaker 1: he's waiting for his final documentation to solidify his asylum status.
Speaker 1: Mighty Lew and their nine year old son are protected
Speaker 1: under asylum status after persecut in their home country of Guatemala.
Speaker 3: They came to this country to live what they believe
Speaker 3: was the American dream to work hard, and all of
Speaker 3: their dreams and hard work is now they see for nothing.
Speaker 2: All this coming is legal battles unfold over the mistaken
Speaker 2: deportation of a man from Maryland. More on that in
Speaker 2: a few moments, but first, at eleven oh one, we've
Speaker 2: learned a second immigration attorney in Massachusetts has mistakenly been
Speaker 2: ordered by ICE to leave the country. East Boston immigration
Speaker 2: attorney Carmen Bellow got a letter from Homeland Security, and
Speaker 2: in the letter it says she should self deport because
Speaker 2: her parole will be terminated in a week now. Bella
Speaker 2: was born in the Dominican Republic, but has been a
Speaker 2: US citizen since two thousand and seven. Yesterday we told
Speaker 2: you about another attorney, Nicole Misharoni, who got the same email. Mischaroni,
Speaker 2: though has been here her whole life, she was born
Speaker 2: in Massachusetts. In response, Homeland Security confirmed the letters are real,
Speaker 2: but saying they might be sent to quote unintended receipents.
Speaker 2: End at eleven oh two. Developing this morning.
Speaker 3: Today, the Department of Justice is announcing a civil lawsuit
Speaker 3: against the main Department of.
Speaker 2: Education, Attorney General Pam Bondi, saying Maine is not complying
Speaker 2: with a federal push to ban transgender athletes from taking
Speaker 2: part in girls' sports. It is the latest move in
Speaker 2: weeks of feuding between the White House and Democratic Governor
Speaker 2: Janet Mills, and this has led to threats to cut
Speaker 2: off crucial federal funds to Maine. During a recent meeting
Speaker 2: of governors with the President, Governor Mills was confronted directly
Speaker 2: by the President over this, to which she said, quote,
Speaker 2: We'll see you in court. She has also called the
Speaker 2: attacks against transgender athletes executive overreach. Meantime, overseas, Britain Supreme
Speaker 2: Court has issued a landmark ruling on gender.
Speaker 4: I'm Vicky Barker in London, where the UK Supreme Court
Speaker 4: has just weighed in on a highly contentious issue.
Speaker 5: Unanimous decision of this court is that the termswoman and
Speaker 5: sex in the Equality Act two thy ten refer to
Speaker 5: a biological woman and biological s.
Speaker 4: But the justices maybe clear that they ruled on a
Speaker 4: very narrow point of law that trans women in the
Speaker 4: UK do have and will continue to have multiple legal
Speaker 4: protections here.
Speaker 2: Advocates say the ruling, though, could have detrimental effects on
Speaker 2: the lives of transgender people in the UK. We have
Speaker 2: some clouds out there today and it's going to be
Speaker 2: a windy day. We're seeing the wind right now from
Speaker 2: the west or so about fifteen twenty miles an hour,
Speaker 2: So it's one of those days where it's not overly
Speaker 2: windy like we had those storms yesterday, but enough to
Speaker 2: ruffle things around a little bit. We have temperatures right now,
Speaker 2: most of us in the forties, getting up to near
Speaker 2: fifty for the high today, some areas north and west
Speaker 2: maybe closer to forty five for tonight. Breezy, partly cloudy
Speaker 2: early than we clear out completely later on, with a
Speaker 2: low in the low to mid thirties if you're north
Speaker 2: and west and pushing forty if you're right by the coast.
Speaker 2: Plenty of sun. Breezy tomorrow with the high rather than
Speaker 2: the mid to upper fifties, some mixing with clouds on Friday,
Speaker 2: with the high and the low to mid sixties, a
Speaker 2: little bit cooler on the Capan Islands at eleven oh five.
Speaker 2: Right now, we're at forty seven in Denvers, forty one
Speaker 2: in Worcester, forty eight at the Cape cog Canal, and
Speaker 2: in Boston it is cloudy and forty five degrees. Federal
Speaker 2: judge given the government two weeks to prove it is
Speaker 2: working toward getting a wrongly deported Maryland man back from
Speaker 2: L Salvador. Kilmar Brego Garcia has been detained at an
Speaker 2: El Salvador Mega prison since last month, despite core order
Speaker 2: from twenty nineteen banning him from being deported. Here's ABC's
Speaker 2: Rachel Scott.
Speaker 6: Judge Poulsenus declaring every day a Brigo Garcia spends in
Speaker 6: that prison as a day of further or reparable harm.
Speaker 6: Justice Department lawyers insisting the administration is prepared to facilitate
Speaker 6: Abrigo Garcia's presence in the United States if he presents
Speaker 6: at a port of entry, but they argue they cannot
Speaker 6: compel Ol Salvador to release him from prison, even though
Speaker 6: the administration is paying El Salvador more than six million
Speaker 6: dollars to hold him there, along with more than two
Speaker 6: hundred other undocumented immigrants they claim without evidence or members
Speaker 6: of violent games and.
Speaker 2: In new developments on this this morning. Just a short
Speaker 2: time ago, outside the Justice Department, Attorney General Pam Bondi
Speaker 2: told reporters that Abrego Garcia is not returning to the country,
Speaker 2: continuing to claim he's a member of MS thirteen. Now,
Speaker 2: some congressional Democrats say they want to see what's happening
Speaker 2: in El Salvador for themselves. Senator Chris van Holland of
Speaker 2: Maryland right now is on his way to San Salvador.
Speaker 7: The goal of this mission is to let the Trump
Speaker 7: administration to let the government of Al Salvador know that
Speaker 7: we are going to keep fighting to bring Albrego Garcia home.
Speaker 2: Van Holland says he is trying to meet with government
Speaker 2: officials in El Salvador and trying to see Abrego Garcia
Speaker 2: for himself to check in on his well being. At
Speaker 2: eleven oh seven, the book collection at some military libraries
Speaker 2: is about to be pared down.
Speaker 8: Army and Air Force libraries have been told to go
Speaker 8: through their books to find anything related to diversity, equity
Speaker 8: and inclusion. That's according to new memos obtained by the
Speaker 8: Associated Press. The orders from service leaders come about two
Speaker 8: weeks after the US Naval Academy remove nearly four hundred
Speaker 8: books from its library after being told to get rid
Speaker 8: of those that promote DEI. They included books on the Holocaust,
Speaker 8: histories of feminism, civil rights, and racism, as well as
Speaker 8: Maya Angelou's famous autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Speaker 2: And by the way quickly as the weather warms up.
Speaker 2: It means we're getting back into mosquito season. Officials in
Speaker 2: Norfolk County saying that over the next few weeks they're
Speaker 2: dropping a chemical called BTI over wetlands and two dozen
Speaker 2: cities and towns, which we'll say they're not one hundred
Speaker 2: percent sure when they're going to be doing the drops.
Speaker 2: It'll take about two days, could happen anytime between now
Speaker 2: and the month's end. You are now in the Loup.
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