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1:02

From CBS News Headquarters in

1:04

New York, this is the

1:07

CBS Evening News. Good evening,

1:09

I'm John Dickerson. I'm Maurice

1:12

Dubois. The president's borders are

1:14

has long insisted that migrants

1:16

in this country illegally are being

1:18

carefully vetted before they're deported. But

1:20

now the administration is admitting that

1:22

at least one migrant was deported

1:24

accidentally. It blames an administrative error.

1:27

An error that has the migrants

1:29

who had been living in Maryland

1:31

sitting tonight in one of the

1:33

most dangerous prisons in the world.

1:35

in his native El Salvador. A

1:37

judge has blocked his deportation there

1:39

because his life would be in

1:41

danger. The migrant's wife and five-year-old

1:43

son are US citizens. He was

1:45

on board one of those planes

1:47

filled with Venezuelan and Salvadoran migrants

1:49

deported to El Salvador last month, all

1:52

of them alleged to be criminals and

1:54

or gang members. But as we have

1:56

reported, there is reason to believe some

1:59

may not be. Nancy Cordes is

2:01

at the White House. Nancy? Good

2:03

evening. This man's family says he's

2:05

a union member, full-time sheet metal

2:07

worker supporting an American wife and

2:09

a special needs child. The White

2:11

House says he may have been

2:13

sent to prison by mistake, but

2:15

that he's dangerous and now deserves

2:18

to stay there. Ice officials now

2:20

admit this man was not supposed

2:22

to end up at the notorious

2:24

Sikkot prison in El Salvador. In

2:26

a new court filing, they say

2:28

the deportation of Kilmar, Abrego Garcia,

2:30

was an administrative error. and an

2:32

oversight. What they're saying is, yeah,

2:34

we messed up so well. Simon

2:36

Sandoval Motionberg is his lawyer. What

2:39

we're asking right now is for

2:41

the government to ask for him

2:43

back from the government of El

2:45

Salvador. Right now, Trump officials are

2:47

saying no. Vice President J. D.

2:49

Vance called Abrego Garcia a convicted

2:51

MS-13 gang member with no legal

2:53

right to be here. Is Kilmara

2:55

a gang member? He's not a

2:57

gang member. The allegations against him

2:59

are based on whispers and shadows.

3:02

What is clear is that Abrigal

3:04

Garcia fled gang violence in El

3:06

Salvador when he was 16. In

3:08

2019, an immigration judge issued a

3:10

grant of protection which prohibits him

3:12

from being deported back to his

3:14

home country for his safety. This

3:16

individual was an MS-13 ringleader. White

3:18

House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt. The

3:20

judge ordered that he should remain

3:23

in this country, so are you

3:25

saying that it is okay to

3:27

ignore a judge's ruling if you

3:29

don't like it? Who does that

3:31

judge work for? He's an immigration

3:33

judge who works for the Department

3:35

of Justice at the direction of

3:37

the Attorney General of the United

3:39

States, whose name is Pam Bondi,

3:41

who has committed to eradicating MS-13

3:44

from our nation's interior. They don't

3:46

want to ask for him back.

3:48

No, unfortunately they don't. It's appalling

3:50

to me. I've had wrongful deportation

3:52

cases before, including in the last

3:54

Trump administration. And in every single

3:56

such case, as soon as they

3:58

realize what they'd done, they bent

4:00

over backwards, they moved mountains to

4:02

get these guys back. This case

4:05

is shining new light on the

4:07

cases of other men whose families

4:09

say they were sent to Sikkot

4:11

in error. Not every gang member

4:13

has a criminal record. Our colleague,

4:15

Lilia Luciano, asked Trump's borders are

4:17

Tom Holman about the vetting that

4:19

took place before deportees were flown

4:21

to El Salvador. I've been assured

4:23

numerous times that everybody on that

4:26

plane from Venezuela was a TV

4:28

member. The rest of them were

4:30

MS-13. And Nancy, as you showed

4:32

us, the attorney, the press secretary

4:34

that is, said this is all

4:36

up to the attorney general. Is

4:38

that the way this works? Not

4:41

exactly. Immigration judges do technically report

4:43

up to the Attorney General, but

4:45

that doesn't mean that she can

4:47

simply ignore an immigration judge's ruling

4:49

that someone needs to stay in

4:51

this country. She could call for

4:53

it to be reviewed. She can

4:55

challenge it, but there is a

4:57

process for that, and it was

4:59

not followed in this case. Nancy

5:01

was not convicted, despite what the

5:03

vice president said, right? And if

5:05

so, how did he get on

5:07

the list? Well, he

5:09

wasn't originally on the list. He

5:12

was considered an alternate, but there

5:14

was a manifest with a lot

5:16

of names on it that started

5:18

dropping off for various reasons. And

5:20

so he kept moving up the

5:23

list. And there was no notation

5:25

there that he was not supposed

5:27

to be sent out of the

5:29

country, John. Ice officials are describing

5:31

this as a quote, good faith

5:34

oversight. Just a few seconds here,

5:36

Nancy. What happens next in this

5:38

case? There is a court hearing

5:40

on Friday. His lawyers want the

5:42

judge to call on the government

5:44

to ask El Salvador to send

5:47

him back, but the government's lawyers

5:49

are arguing that the judge simply

5:51

has no jurisdiction here because the

5:53

man in question is now out

5:55

of the country. Nancy Cordes at

5:58

the White House for us, thank

6:00

you, Nancy. Tomorrow at the White

6:02

House, the president will announce the

6:04

latest round of... in his war

6:06

with America's biggest trading partners. Among

6:09

them China, where manufacturers are already

6:11

looking for new customers outside the

6:13

United States. And a corn is

6:15

in Hong Kong. Along a tree-line

6:17

street outside the city of E-Woo

6:19

in eastern China, lies an industrial

6:22

area. Where businessman Jen Wang Wang

6:24

has come to inspect his factory.

6:26

This is where the 42-year-old produces

6:28

insulated water bottles and coffee cups.

6:30

with an automated assembly line that

6:33

seldom stops. Mr. Chen, they're all

6:35

machines, no working. Yeah, no use

6:37

law. But despite its efficiency, geopolitical

6:39

tensions have caused havoc. With a

6:41

quarter of his production exported to

6:44

the United States, now hit with

6:46

20% taps. Are you going to

6:48

have to increase your prices? I

6:50

can't raise my price, otherwise I

6:52

make no money, he tells me.

6:54

That's an issue for the US

6:57

clients. Among his biggest clients, Walmart.

6:59

Mr. Chen says orders have slowed

7:01

right down as US customers wait

7:03

to see how this plays out.

7:05

Who will feel the effects of

7:08

the tariffs? The clients in the

7:10

US will be affected most by

7:12

the tariffs, he says. If the

7:14

US trade war intensifies, as many

7:16

predict, then Mr Chan, like many

7:19

other business owners, says he will

7:21

just need to adapt and focus

7:23

his attention on other key markets

7:25

around the world. Europe and the

7:27

Middle East are now firmly in

7:29

his sights. In an attempt to

7:32

safeguard their business, he and his

7:34

wife recently returned from Dubai, after

7:36

meeting with potential new buyers for

7:38

their finished products. But with the

7:40

US still the biggest player, he's

7:43

hopeful that door doesn't shut forever.

7:45

Both sides will be losers in

7:47

this trade war, he tells me.

7:49

We have to sit down and

7:51

try to resolve this. Anna Koren

7:54

joins us now from Hong Kong,

7:56

so Annie gave us good insight

7:58

into how businesses are looking for

8:00

a new trading part. What are

8:02

whole countries doing? Well, Maurice, let's

8:04

take into consideration Japan and South

8:07

Korea. Two of America's strongest allies

8:09

here in Asia, if not the

8:11

world. They have not held trade

8:13

talks with China for more than

8:15

five years due to geopolitical tensions,

8:18

but that's exactly what their trade

8:20

ministers did on Sunday, meeting with

8:22

their Chinese counterpart to talk about

8:24

strengthening the supply chain, speeding up

8:26

talks on free trade agreements. They

8:29

are hedging their bets out of

8:31

necessity. One round of trade wars

8:33

with the first Trump administration? Well,

8:35

John, when the trade wars began

8:37

back in 2018, China was caught

8:39

completely off guard. This time round,

8:42

they are prepared. I'm hearing from

8:44

Chinese advisors to the government that

8:46

they are prepared for 60% tariffs.

8:48

Remember, that is what President Trump

8:50

threatened on the campaign trail. And

8:53

the message coming out of China

8:55

is that it is open for

8:57

business. Okay, at a corn tonight,

8:59

thank you. Now more of the

9:01

top stories from around the world

9:03

in tonight's evening news roundup beginning

9:06

with a show of military might

9:08

by China Beijing calls the drills

9:10

off of Taiwan a warning to

9:12

those pushing for the island's independence.

9:14

Sources tell CBS News President Trump

9:17

will consider a final proposal tomorrow.

9:19

For the sale of Tiktak Saturday

9:21

is the deadline the president gave

9:23

Tiktak's Chinese parent company to sell

9:25

its stake in the app or

9:28

Tiktak will be banned in the

9:30

United States. Attorney General Pam Bondi

9:32

has asked federal prosecutors to seek

9:34

the death penalty against 26-year-old Luigi

9:36

Mangioni. He's charged in the shooting.

9:38

death the United Health Care CEO

9:41

Brian Thompson on a New York

9:43

City street. And CBS's senior transportation

9:45

correspondent Chris Van Cleve spoke with

9:47

Senator Ted Cruz today about the

9:49

thousands of close calls involving military

9:52

aircraft. The Texas Republican asked to

9:54

see the data so he could

9:56

look into it further. Does something

9:58

need to be done to look

10:00

how the military operates inside the

10:02

United States and airspace around airports?

10:04

Look those numbers as you relay

10:06

them are certainly concerning. I haven't

10:08

seen the particular study you did

10:10

and I would say I would

10:12

very much like to see them

10:14

so I would I would love

10:17

to see the details of that

10:19

study but as you describe it

10:21

that's deeply concerning. The mass firings

10:23

of workers at federal health agencies

10:25

is underway. Termination notices went out

10:27

this morning. Thousands of jobs are

10:29

being cut within the Department of

10:31

Health and Human Services at the

10:33

Food and Drug Administration, the National

10:35

Institutes of Health, and the Centers

10:37

for Disease Control and Prevention. We

10:39

spoke today with Tom Frieden, who

10:41

headed the CDC from 2009 to

10:43

2017. Dr. Frieden, 20,000 in cuts

10:45

from Health and Human Services is

10:47

undoubtedly more than you would think

10:49

is wise. But zero cuts is

10:51

probably not the right standard either.

10:53

So where should the efficiency at

10:55

the HHS land? The administration seems

10:57

to be starting with a goal

10:59

of reducing... large numbers of staff,

11:02

but when you look at what

11:04

those staff are doing, they're protecting

11:06

Americans. This is a recipe for

11:08

disaster. It's not going to make

11:10

us healthier, it'll make us sicker,

11:12

it'll increase health care costs for

11:14

families, for communities, and for the

11:16

country. With these cuts, without these

11:18

people, what could people see in

11:20

practice in their everyday lives? an

11:22

outbreak comes to your community there

11:24

is no availability of people to

11:26

surge in and help stop it.

11:28

A disease starts anywhere in the

11:30

world and you want to hear

11:32

about it and find out from

11:34

the actual scientists and experts who

11:36

know about that disease what the

11:38

risk is to you and your

11:40

family you don't have those people

11:42

to rely on anymore. And what

11:45

about down the road Dr. Frieden?

11:47

Sometimes there are things that are

11:49

not as immediate or things that...

11:51

Once they happen, it's too late

11:53

to suddenly stand up before us

11:55

to combat it. One of the

11:57

most important things the CDC does

11:59

is to track health trends. Whatever

12:01

you think we should be doing

12:03

about them, we absolutely need to

12:05

know what's happening. I'm afraid what

12:07

we're seeing here is an approach

12:09

that's saying, let's hit a number.

12:11

That number is the number of

12:13

staff we get rid of. How

12:15

about hitting a number, the number

12:17

of people who don't get diseases

12:19

that we can prevent? Dr. Tom

12:21

Frieden, former director of the CDC.

12:23

Thank you. We asked HHS, the

12:25

CDC, the NIH, and the FDA

12:28

for an interview about the job

12:30

cuts. They either declined or did

12:32

not respond. Still ahead here on

12:34

the CBS evening news, Rob Marciano,

12:36

tracking severe weather tonight, including possible

12:38

tornadoes. And we'll have these stories.

12:40

I'm Nicole Valdez in Baltimore. It's

12:42

a city that's found a way

12:44

to decrease violence, what they're doing

12:46

to keep it that way. That's

12:48

tonight's Iron America. I'm Kelly O'Grady.

12:50

A family night out has become

12:52

more of a luxury for American

12:54

families. That's come at a price

12:56

for some of the country's best-known

12:58

restaurant chains. That's next on the

13:00

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17:34

For years, Baltimore was a poster

17:37

child for big city crime, but

17:39

now it's becoming the model for

17:41

a turnaround. Gun violence has fallen

17:43

more rapidly there than in any

17:46

other major U.S. city. One way

17:48

Baltimore has reduced crime is by

17:50

tapping into the expertise of people

17:52

who used to perpetrate it. Nicole

17:54

Valdez has tonight's eye on America.

18:01

What do we need? This

18:03

is Brooklyn. Not that Brooklyn.

18:05

This neighborhood is in South

18:07

Baltimore. It's where we met

18:09

Sean Weese. Weese is a

18:11

tough guy. I saw a

18:13

lot of drugs. And Brooklyn

18:15

is a tough place. My

18:17

circle was built around a

18:20

bunch of killers. The violence

18:22

hit closest to home in

18:24

2015 when his younger brother

18:26

Nadim was killed. He was

18:28

24. One of nearly 300

18:30

shooting deaths in Baltimore that

18:32

year. My soul just was

18:34

like, gone. That changed Wies.

18:36

You know what I'm saying?

18:38

Now, he's helping to change

18:40

Brooklyn. Was that the moment

18:42

that made you say enough?

18:44

That was the moment that

18:46

it made me sit down

18:48

and evaluate life. Wies joined

18:50

Safe Streets Baltimore. A city-run

18:52

anti-violence program that works to

18:54

prevent crime by hiring some

18:56

experts in the field. People

18:58

with criminal records. To do

19:01

this work, you have to

19:03

have a rapport with the

19:05

guys in the community. That's

19:07

how the program was designed

19:09

for people from the community.

19:11

We motivated every day just

19:13

because, like, we are Brooklyn.

19:15

I used to live right

19:17

here, Cooley used to live

19:19

right there. Wease and his

19:21

team patrol the streets wearing

19:23

bright orange uniforms. They walk

19:25

through hot zones, some of

19:27

the most violent areas. They

19:29

mediate conflicts and offer help

19:31

getting resources, including food or

19:33

job training. They know you

19:35

here for them for the

19:37

support. and they can pretty

19:40

much come to you about

19:42

anything. City leaders say the

19:44

approach is a big part

19:46

of why Brooklyn just went

19:48

a record 472 days without

19:50

a single homicide. Baltimore wide

19:52

gun deaths have dropped 45%

19:54

in the last six years.

19:56

Baltimore isn't alone. States have

19:58

dedicated funding for violence intervention

20:00

programs according to gun safety

20:02

advocates every town. Studies show

20:04

that programs like this in

20:06

cities including Chicago Philadelphia and

20:08

Richmond California have helped decrease

20:10

shootings and killings by more

20:12

than 30 percent. Well far

20:14

too long not just here

20:16

in Baltimore but across this

20:18

country we put the full

20:21

weight of reducing violence on

20:23

the backs of police officers

20:25

and that was wrong. Brandon

20:27

Scott is mayor of Baltimore.

20:29

There are some who would

20:31

argue you're taking a risk

20:33

on the guys that you're

20:35

hiring to do these jobs.

20:37

Why do you take that

20:39

risk? If we want to

20:41

solve and cure this disease,

20:43

we have to go to

20:45

the people who understand it

20:47

better than anybody else. So

20:49

do you think that you've

20:51

seen success in safe streets?

20:53

No. No. We've seen... Good

20:55

work in progress, but have

20:57

more work to do absolutely

21:00

Work that gives we and

21:02

others hope for Baltimore For

21:04

I on America. I'm Nicole

21:06

Valdez in Baltimore In tomorrow's

21:08

I on America as the

21:10

cost of living rises we

21:12

look at the cost of

21:14

dying a funeral can leave

21:16

a family deep in debt

21:18

Maurice and I will be

21:20

right back We

21:23

end this April 1st with a couple

21:25

of the most notorious April Fool's pranks

21:27

of all time. The last two weeks

21:29

of March on an anxious time for

21:31

the spaghetti farmer. In 1957 the BBC

21:33

aired a segment purported to show the

21:35

harvesting of spaghetti. After picking. The spaghetti

21:37

is laid out to dry. From spaghetti

21:39

trees. To the hundreds who called asking

21:42

how they too could grow pasta, the

21:44

BBC advised, place a sprig of spaghetti

21:46

into a tin of tomato sauce and

21:48

hope for the best. There's nothing like

21:50

real home grown spaghetti. In those days,

21:52

most... were black and white,

21:54

but on April Fool's Day 1962 Sweden's

21:56

TV station told viewers they

21:58

could get a

22:00

color picture by putting

22:02

a a stocking over

22:04

the screen. a A

22:07

technician explained how

22:09

the stocking would bend

22:11

would to create color.

22:13

color Many viewers tried

22:15

it. it for the

22:17

record, record It doesn't

22:19

work. That's the CBS evening News

22:21

this April I'm I'm John Dickerson. No

22:23

joke. see I'll see you soon on

22:25

Evening News Plus. I'm Maurice too well.

22:27

be back here tomorrow tomorrow in we hope.

22:29

We night. night.