--:-- Traci Mumford: From the New York Times, it's the headlines. I'm Traci Mumford. Today's Monday, April 28th. Here's what we're covering.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Immigration advocates are sounding the alarm about some of the Trump administration's latest deportations, warning that children who are American citizens have been caught up in the crackdown. They're pointing to two cases out of Louisiana in the last week.
--:-- Traci Mumford: In both, women who were undocumented were detained along with their children after showing up for routine check-ins with ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
--:-- Traci Mumford: One woman was then sent to Honduras with her 4-year-old and 7-year-old who have U.S. citizenship. The other was also sent there along with her 2-year-old who's a U.S. citizen.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Lawyers for both families say the mothers were not given the option to leave their kids in the U.S. and that they weren't even able to communicate with their lawyers until after they'd arrived in Central America.
--:-- Traci Mumford: In the case of the two-year-old, the child's father had filed an emergency petition to try and keep his daughter in the U.S., but she was flown to Honduras anyway.
--:-- Traci Mumford: A federal judge overseeing the case wrote that he had a strong suspicion that the government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.
--:-- Tom Homan: In an interview on CBS yesterday, President Trump's border czar pushed back on that. The mom signed a paper saying, I want my two-year-old to go with me. That's a parent's decision. It's not a government decision. It's a parent's decision.
--:-- Tom Homan: But Homan also warned other parents who are undocumented that their families may face consequences, too.
--:-- Tom Homan: Having a U.S. citizen child doesn't make you immune from our laws of the country. American families get separated every day by law enforcement. Thousands of times a day when a parent gets put in jail, the child can't go with them.
--:-- Tom Homan: If you're an illegal animal and come to this country and you decide to have U.S. citizen child, that's on you. You put yourself in that position.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Meanwhile, hundreds of people gathered in Wisconsin this weekend to protest the Trump administration's decision to arrest a judge for allegedly obstructing its deportation efforts.
--:-- Traci Mumford: On Friday, the FBI detained Hannah Dugan, a county judge in Milwaukee, and accused her of guiding an undocumented immigrant out the side door of her courtroom after she found out that ICE agents were standing by waiting to arrest him.
--:-- Traci Mumford: He was later apprehended outside the courthouse. The director of the FBI Kash Patel posted a photo of the judge online showing her in handcuffs and he wrote, No one is above the law.
--:-- Traci Mumford: She since been released and has a hearing scheduled for next month.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. will decide this week whether or not to give up on its efforts to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine.
--:-- Traci Mumford: We don't walk away from something that can actually work or that can actually lead to peace, but we also don't want to continue to spend time on something that's not going to get us there.
--:-- Traci Mumford: He told NBC's Meet the Press that the U.S. was close, but not close enough to negotiating a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.
--:-- Traci Mumford: It wasn't clear, though, if Rubio's deadline was simply an effort to pressure the two sides to make a deal, or if the administration might actually pull back from negotiations altogether if there's no progress.
--:-- Traci Mumford: In the past few days, Trump sent his special envoy to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. They talked for three hours in Moscow.
--:-- Traci Mumford: And Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky personally while they were both at the Vatican for Pope Francis's funeral.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Officials haven't said what, if anything, came out of those discussions.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Trump's visit to Italy was his first foreign trip this term. It lasted just 14 hours, with Trump leaving shortly after the funeral.
--:-- Traci Mumford: The Times learned that he told his aides he wanted to be back at his golf club in New Jersey by the end of the day.
--:-- Traci Mumford: In Canada today, voters will head to the polls for an election that's broadly considered one of the most important in a generation.
--:-- Traci Mumford: It will determine who leads the country as prime minister at a time when Canada is facing a cost-of-living crisis and an unexpected trade war with the U.S.
--:-- Traci Mumford: We've got to face up to Trump. I've got the experience of managing crisis.
--:-- Traci Mumford: The top two contenders are the leader of the Liberal Party, Mark Carney, who took over from Justin Trudeau, and the leader of the Conservative Party, Pierre Polyev.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Who's voting for safe streets for a change? Many voters are making their decision based on who they think is best positioned to stand up to the U.S., not only on tariffs, but also to President Trump's repeated threats to make Canada the 51st state.
--:-- Traci Mumford: One thing to note about this election is what's happening on social media.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Go on Facebook or Instagram in Canada and there are no news articles about the election.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Meta, which owns both of those platforms, blocked news on its apps in Canada back in 2023 after a new law required social media companies to pay news outlets for publishing their content instead of paying Meta made news unavailable.
--:-- Traci Mumford: The situation has created a news void and dozens of partisan pages, especially right-wing ones, have stepped in to fill it, sharing misleading posts that can go viral and running ads that mimic legitimate news sources.
--:-- Traci Mumford: OnePage Canada Proud now has more followers than either of the country's major parties, and its posts have taken particular aim at Carney, the liberal leader.
--:-- Traci Mumford: And most Canadians aren't aware that what they're seeing online has changed.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Research shows only one in five Canadians knows that news has been blocked on Facebook and Instagram.
--:-- Traci Mumford: In Israel, the country's military has a history of testing new technologies out in the field.
--:-- Traci Mumford: It was among the first to experiment with drones and to pioneer spyware for hacking into cell phones for intelligence gathering.
--:-- Traci Mumford: And in Gaza, the Israeli militaries used the territory as a testing ground for artificial intelligence.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Some of the tools being developed by Israel include facial recognition that's powered by AI and can recognize people in real time.
--:-- Traci Mumford: They developed an AI tool that can quickly sort through data and help them pick targets for bombing campaigns.
--:-- Traci Mumford: And a new AI audio tool helped them locate some of Hamas's top militants.
--:-- Traci Mumford: My colleague Shira Frankel, along with Natan Odermeyer, has been looking at Israel's developments in AI.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Several Israeli officials told her new technologies were cleared for use after October 7, and they moved quickly to develop more.
--:-- Traci Mumford: They even pulled in reserve soldiers who had day jobs at tech companies like Microsoft and Google to add their expertise.
--:-- Traci Mumford: That's made Israel among the first militaries in the world to use the tools, giving a preview of what's possible and what can go wrong.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Facial recognition led to some mistaken identifications and arrests of Palestinians.
--:-- Traci Mumford: And other AI technology has led to civilian deaths, according to Israeli officials.
--:-- Traci Mumford: That's raised some concerns among Israel's allies.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Some of the questions being raised by American and European defense officials are whether Israel is using tools that are too experimental in a real-time battlefield.
--:-- Traci Mumford: When it comes to the use of AI in a war, those small errors or those small false positives can cost real human lives.
--:-- Traci Mumford: And finally, here's my day off as a D1 athlete.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Okay, so first off, I'm definitely going to need to pick up some new lounging pieces, and Athletas are top tier.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Ever since the NCAA changed its rules to let college athletes make money from sponsorships and endorsements, social media has seen the rise of the student-athlete influencer.
--:-- Traci Mumford: That's where the Uber One for Students membership to save on Uber and Uber Eats comes in clutch.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Some students have racked up millions of followers and are earning hundreds of thousands of dollars for branded posts.
--:-- Traci Mumford: What I've been looking at is the next phase of this trend, which is colleges actually trying to help a ton of their student athletes become social media stars.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Sapna Mahershwari is a tech reporter at The Times.
--:-- Traci Mumford: I went down to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a huge sports school, where there's a firm that is basically giving presentations to student athletes and telling them how much money there is to be made in social media, how they can become influencers.
--:-- Traci Mumford: They're handing out 50-page documents saying, you know, here's how to make a great TikTok. Here's how to make a compelling Instagram.
--:-- Traci Mumford: And what they're teaching these students is that once they build a big profile, they can also connect with brands and make a few thousand dollars.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Sapna says that while the schools don't make money when their athletes sign these kinds of deals, they see it as a way to raise the profile of their athletic programs.
--:-- Traci Mumford: If they can help more of their students become stars, they can attract more talent.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Sapna says she even talked to one coach who's carved out time before and after practice so that his athletes have time to make content.
--:-- Traci Mumford: There are certainly critics of this effort.
--:-- Traci Mumford: There are people who say that it's adding too much to the workload of really busy student-athletes.
--:-- Traci Mumford: There are those who say it's adding to the mental health pressures that young people already face.
--:-- Traci Mumford: And then there's this idea, too, that young women in particular might feel the pressure to pose in certain ways or present their bodies in certain ways for followers and likes.
--:-- Traci Mumford: But already the firm that I spoke with at UNC has fielded interest from Michigan.
--:-- Traci Mumford: They said they're in talks with other D1 schools.
--:-- Traci Mumford: I think in a couple of years, this is going to be very commonplace.
--:-- Traci Mumford: And it's going to be something that all of us will see on our social media feeds.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Those are the headlines.
--:-- Traci Mumford: Today on The Daily, a new poll from The Times breaks down how Americans feel about President Trump almost 100 days into his term.
--:-- Traci Mumford: That's next in The New York Times audio app, or you can listen wherever you get your podcasts.
--:-- Traci Mumford: I'm Tracy Mumford. We'll be back tomorrow.
