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Last Updated: April 20, 2025, 10:28 PM EDT

President Donald Trump continues to take sweeping executive actions in his second term, including an order this week targeting a senior official from his first administration who became one of his critics.

Focus continues on the legal battle regarding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a migrant who was living in Maryland when he was wrongfully deported by the administration.

Apr 18, 2025, 12:21 PM EDT

Judge says Trump cannot deport noncitizens to third countries without due process

A federal judge is blocking the Trump administration from deporting noncitizens to countries other than their places of origin without due process.

Judge Brian Murphy of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Friday issued an injunction that bars the Trump administration from deporting any noncitizen to a country not explicitly mentioned in his or her order of removal without first allowing them to raise concerns about his or her safety.

President Donald Trump listens to a question from a reporter as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, April 17, 2025, in Washington.
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"Defendants argue that the United States may send a deportable alien to a country not of their origin, not where an immigration judge has ordered, where they may be immediately tortured and killed, without providing that person any opportunity to tell the deporting authorities that they face grave danger or death because of such a deportation," Murphy wrote. "All nine sitting justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Assistant Solicitor General of the United States, Congress, common sense, basic decency, and this Court all disagree."

The ruling throws a roadblock in the Trump administration's frequent policy of removing noncitizens to countries such as El Salvador, Honduras and Panama even if the noncitizens lack an order of removal to those countries.

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous

Apr 18, 2025, 11:26 AM EDT

Trump administration to gut CFPB to 206-person staff

In new court filings, the Trump administration said it plans to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with a 206-person staff, a steep decrease from the 1,680 employees who previously worked for the agency. Some departments within the CFPB were cut entirely or reduced to a single employee, according to Mark Paoletta, the agency's chief legal officer.

A security officer works inside of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau headquarters Feb. 10, 2025, in Washington.
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"An approximately 200-person agency allows the Bureau to fulfill its statutory duties and better aligns with the new leadership's priorities and management philosophy," Paoletta wrote.

The declaration comes ahead of a court hearing in which a federal judge is set to determine if the massive cuts to CFPB ran afoul of a court order.

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous and Alexander Mallin

Apr 18, 2025, 10:28 AM EDT

Administration releases first batch of files related to assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

The Trump administration said Friday it was releasing the first trove of files relating to the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said the documents are now accessible online. There are 10,000 pages, which were previously classified and include some redactions, the office said.

Sen. Robert Francis Kennedy, his wife Ethel standing behind him, gives victory sign to huge crowd at the Ambassador Hotel June 5, 1968 prior to making victory speech after winning the California primary.
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"In the course of searching FBI and CIA warehouses for records not previously turned over to The National Archives, an additional 50,000 pages of RFK assassination files were discovered," the office said. "The agencies are working to make these records available and will continue to search government facilities for additional files."

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of RFK and Trump's health and human services secretary, said in a statement that "lifting the veil on the RFK papers is a necessary step toward restoring trust in American government."

Apr 18, 2025, 8:46 AM EDT

Chris Krebs, former CISA director and target of Trump, resigns from job

Chris Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, resigned from his job at a private cybersecurity firm after being the target of an executive order by President Donald Trump.

Krebs, who was appointed by Trump as the first director of the new agency that Trump signed into law, resigned from his job at Sentinel One.

"As many of you know, when the news broke last week about the Executive Order -- one that directly named me and referenced SentinelOne -- I immediately reached out to Tomer. I told him what I firmly believe: this [is] my fight, not the company's, and I offered my resignation," he said in statement posted on his LinkedIn. "For those who know me, you know I don't shy away from tough fights. But I also know this is one I need to take on fully -- outside of SentinelOne. This will require my complete focus and energy. It's a fight for democracy, for freedom of speech, and for the rule of law. I'm prepared to give it everything I've got."

PHOTO: Chris Krebs testifies during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to discuss election security and the 2020 election process on December 16, 2020 in Washington, DC.
Chris Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, testifies during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to discuss election security and the 2020 election process on December 16, 2020 in Washington, DC.
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The executive order signed by Trump on April 9 called Krebs a "significant bad-faith actor who weaponized his Government authority." The order directed the attorney general to review Krebs' actions while director of CISA.

Krebs has long maintained that the 2020 election was safe and secure, at odds with Trump who made false claims of election fraud. Krebs' defiance of Trump ultimately led to his firing in late 2020 as CISA director.

-ABC News' Luke Barr

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