Federal judge directs Trump admin to return Maryland man deported to El Salvador prison
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to immediately make arrangements for the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said that Kilmar Abrego Garcia had been illegally deported to El Salvador and said he must be returned by Monday before midnight.
Xinis ruled that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s March 15th expulsion of Garcia violated the Administrative Procedures Act, since it occurred without a judicial proceeding.
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The Trump administration has acknowledged Garcia’s removal was an “administrative error,” but has also defended it, alleging that Garcia has ties to MS-13.
“This individual is an illegal criminal who broke our nation’s immigration laws. He is a leader in the brutal MS-13 gang, and he is involved in human trafficking,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a briefing on Tuesday.
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“And now MS-13 is a designated foreign terrorist organization. Foreign terrorists have no legal protections in the United States of America. And this administration is going to continue to deport foreign terrorists and illegal criminals from our nation’s interior,” she added.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News after the ruling: “The American people should know who this individual is. He’s not some American father as the mainstream media will make you believe, he’s actually a member of MS-13, and was involved in trafficking. It’s unbelievable the framing of this. Whether this man is in El Salvador or in a U.S. detention center, he should be locked up.”
An immigration judge five years ago said Garcia, who is a legal U.S. resident, could not be deported to his home country, over concerns he would become a victim of local El Salvador gang members.
Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, who is a U.S. citizen, has vigorously campaigned for his return.
Garcia had been working as a sheet metal apprentice in Maryland and was arrested in an IKEA parking lot on March 12 while his 5-year-old son was in the car.
His lawyers have argued the man had a Department of Homeland Security permit to work in the country, and strongly denied any gang affiliations. They also say that the government has given little evidence to back up its claim.
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There was no indication how the government would comply, since he is incarcerated in an El Salvador prison under that government’s custody, or whether an appeal would be filed by the administration.
Long-suffering American industry embraces tariffs: Trump ‘threw us a lifeline’
American shrimpers were pleased to see President Donald Trump unveil his latest round of tariffs this week.
The president on Wednesday announced plans for new tariffs on goods imported from foreign countries. The new measures include a baseline levy of 10% on foreign imports and “individualized reciprocal higher” tariffs on certain countries, the White House said.
Leann Bosarge, the COO of Bosarge Boats, told FOX Business’ Lydia Hu on Friday that the tariffs “threw us a lifeline” in the struggling domestic shrimp industry.
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“The U.S. domestic shrimp industry has been on a downward trajectory for decades now as a direct result of the unfair trade in the overseas aquaculture industry for growing shrimp overseas,” Bosarge said. “And these tariffs threw us a lifeline that we needed to hopefully live to fight another day in our industry in this country.”
The domestic shrimp industry in the Gulf and South Atlantic has seen the value of the shrimp it catches drop significantly, with NOAA Fisheries data showing it has gone from $522 million in 2021 to $269 million in 2023, according to the Southern Shrimp Alliance, a trade organization representing shrimp fishermen, processors and other stakeholders from eight states.
Hu reported shrimpers believe the tariffs will help level the playing field with the foreign shrimp industry.
Imports make up 94% of shrimp eaten in the U.S., with countries such as India, Ecuador, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Argentina among the top sources of the imported shrimp, per the Southern Shrimp Alliance.
The organization has said subsidies, forced labor and other factors have made shrimp production in foreign countries cheaper, hurting the American shrimp industry.
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Hu reported Borsage was “getting paid prices for shrimp that she got paid back in the 1980s and, of course, she’s dealing with 2025 prices of doing business.”
The new tariffs “are expected to slow imports and prevent Americans from becoming completely dependent on foreign shrimp producers while the administration addresses harmful trade policies and enforcement deficiencies,” according to the Southern Shrimp Alliance.
Southern Shrimp Alliance Executive Director John Williams said in a Wednesday statement that the organization was “grateful for the Trump Administration’s actions,” saying the tariffs will “preserve American jobs, food security, and our commitment to ethical production.”
The new import tariffs are slated to come into force soon, with the White House saying the 10% baseline levy will hit on April 5 and the reciprocal tariffs expected on April 9.
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While unveiling the tariffs on Wednesday, Trump said it was “one of the most important days, in my opinion, in American history,” calling it the U.S.’ “declaration of economic independence.”
The president has moved to put other tariffs in place since taking office. For instance, in mid-March, he implemented a 25% levy on imported steel and aluminum.
Bill Murray’s movie theater altercation goes viral — and divides social media
Bill Murray is putting his foot down.
The actor was at a movie theater in New York recently to promote his new film, “The Friend.” In a video that’s been making the rounds on social media, Murray got into an altercation with a man in the lobby of the theater he seemed to believe was being aggressive toward him.
At the beginning of the video, Murray is walking with a security guard inside the theater. A man is walking close behind him, and Murray suddenly stops and stomps on the ground, seemingly at the man’s feet.
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“Stop it,” he said, turning and pointing at the man, who immediately puts his hands up. “If you attack me like that again, I’ll step on your foot.”
“No, no,” the man responded, stepping back and keeping his hands up, but Murray kept talking to him as security guards guided him away.
“Don’t do it,” he says. “That’s a physical assault you just made. Don’t do it again. Don’t do it again. You’re not big enough to do that.”
The man can be heard yelling, “Sorry” as Murray is led off.
Fox News Digital reached out to reps for Murray for comment.
As the video of the interaction has been circulating online, many people have weighed in on Murray’s behavior in the video, with some empathizing with his frustration, and others suggesting he was out of line.
“Honestly, if someone stepped on Bill Murray’s foot and disrespected him, he’s got every right to snap,” one person wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “The man’s a legend, give him some space. Fans need to remember, celebrity or not, people still deserve basic respect.”
“That was a pretty restrained reaction considering dude was following him so close he stepped on him,” another commented.
With a more critical interpretation, one person tweeted, “Privileged old actor that thinks he’s entitled to do or say anything. I’d love to know exactly how he was ‘attacked’!”
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Another joked, “Don’t get too close to the porcelain people guys they get angry when we dirty them with our presence.”
Murray isn’t the only celebrity who’s snapped at someone he considered rude.
In October, another legendary actor, Denzel Washington, made waves when a video shared to social media showed him lashing out at fans who were gathered to ask for his autograph.
Washington visited New York City’s Museum of Modern Art to attend a film benefit honoring Samuel L. Jackson. He stopped outside to pose for photos with fans, but another group stood nearby, calling out to him and asking him for autographs. He didn’t acknowledge them while he took the photos but turned to speak to them before going inside.
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In video obtained by Fox News Digital, Washington could be heard saying, “Put this down. I heard you. You talk about showing love … respect me.”
“We always do,” one fan responded.
“I said, ‘I’ll see you when I get out.’ Which part of that don’t y’all understand?” Washington said.
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“Or not, or not! We can do it another way. Either way I can do it both ways, y’all.”
Common vaccine could reduce risk of dementia, research suggests
The link between the zoster vaccine and a lower dementia risk has been strengthened in new research.
A study by Stanford Medicine, published in the journal Nature on April 2, found that the vaccine — which is used to prevent shingles — reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis by about 20% over the next seven years.
“If these findings are truly causal, the zoster vaccine will be both far more effective and cost-effective in preventing or delaying dementia than existing pharmaceutical interventions,” the researchers noted in the study.
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These findings also support an emerging theory that viruses impacting the nervous system can increase dementia risk.
Senior study author Pascal Geldsetzer, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Stanford, said he considers these findings “hugely important” for clinical medicine, population health and research.
“For the first time, we now have evidence that likely shows a cause-and-effect relationship between shingles vaccination and dementia prevention,” he told Fox News Digital.
“We find these protective effects to be large in size – substantially larger than those of existing pharmacological tools for dementia.”
The randomized trial took advantage of the unique way the zoster vaccine was rolled out in Wales, U.K., in 2013, Geldsetzer noted.
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“They said that if you had your 80th birthday just prior to the start date of the program, you are ineligible, and you remain ineligible for life,” he said. “If you had your 80th birthday just after, you were eligible for at least one year.”
“We see in our data that just a one-week difference across this date-of-birth cutoff means that you go from essentially no one getting vaccinated to about half of the population getting vaccinated.”
Both the vaccine-eligible and ineligible groups are “good comparison groups,” according to Geldsetzer, since the only difference is that they were born a few days earlier or later.
The same protective effect of shingles vaccination for dementia has been identified in different populations and countries that rolled out the vaccine in a similar way, the researcher revealed.
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To gather more evidence and confirm the link, Geldsetzer recommends conducting a clinical trial.
“I’m currently trying to raise funds to conduct such a trial from private foundations and philanthropy,” he said.
“We want to trial the live-attenuated vaccine (the vaccine for which we have generated our compelling body of evidence), which is no longer being manufactured in the U.S.”
Family physician Dr. Mark Loafman, who was not involved in the study, weighed in on the association between the shingles vaccine and dementia risk.
“We commonly see intriguing headlines from studies showing an association between a particular health outcome and exposure to something in the environment, our diet or medication,” the Chicago doctor said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
“The challenge when interpreting this type of data is that an association is in no way proof that the exposure is what caused the health finding.”
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Loafman said this large-population study does a “very good job” of excluding the possibility that the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups share different attributes that could skew the outcome.
“So, it really does look like the vaccine does indeed offer a fairly significant level of protection against developing dementia.”
“The study also includes compelling evidence to support two highly plausible mechanisms … in which the vaccine decreases the incidence of dementia,” he added.
This includes the fact that the herpes virus, which causes chickenpox and shingles, settles into the nervous system and lies dormant, which can ignite shingles later.
“Secondly, the live-attenuated vaccines, like the shingles vaccine, are associated with neuroprotective properties,” Loafman went on. “The association is not in itself causal, but this study adds a lot more credibility to this association.”
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Loafman, who has already received the shingles vaccine himself, said he will recommend it to patients in light of this research.
“These findings bring even more encouragement for me to recommend it to my eligible patients, friends and family,” he said.