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The administration spent the day trying to sell its migrant-removal campaign as forceful and inevitable, but the legal picture was getting messier by the hour. Judges were pressing for answers about flights, authority, and due process, while the White House kept leaning on national-security rhetoric that did not fully withstand scrutiny.
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The administration spent the day trying to sell its migrant-removal campaign as forceful and inevitable, but the legal picture was getting messier by the hour. Judges were pressing for answers about flights, authority, and due process, while the White House kept leaning on national-security rhetoric that did not fully withstand scrutiny.
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The administration spent the day trying to sell its migrant-removal campaign as forceful and inevitable, but the legal picture was getting messier by the hour. Judges were pressing for answers about flights, authority, and due process, while the White House kept leaning on national-security rhetoric that did not fully withstand scrutiny.
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