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The Trump administration ordered the former highest-ranking woman in the military to vacate her home within three hours following her departure over her backing of policies addressing diversity, equity and inclusion.

Almost immediately after he assumed office on January 20 - leaving her to discover this while she was waiting to take a photo with Trump at the Commander in Chief ball that night.

A friend of Fagan's described it as being petty and personal.

According to reports, Coast Guard authorities granted the four-star admiral a 60-day exemption to secure temporary living arrangements.

On Tuesday, officials from Homeland Security informed the acting commandant, Kevin Lundy, that he must ask her to leave because the president wishes for her to vacate the premises.

Lundy allegedly informed Fagan on Tuesday at 2pm that she had only three hours to leave.

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After that, Fagan's team was informed by Sean Plankey's personal assistants at the Department of Homeland Security, a senior adviser and retired Coast Guard officer, to leave the house unlocked, so that it could be photographed.

But Fagan objected to DHS' efforts to take photographs.

'I do not give my consent for them to enter my home, regardless of whether I am present,' the admiral apparently stated to another Coast Guard official.

Lunday subsequently communicated that message to Plankey's team, pointing out that any attempt to enter the house would constitute trespassing, according to sources knowledgeable about the eviction proceedings.

Yes, Fagan did leave the home "with many maybe all of her personal items and household goods still there," a former US military official stated.

She reportedly then spent the night with friends.

The US Transportation Command is now overseeing the removal of all her personal belongings from the house. A Department of Homeland Security official stated that she was provided with an alternative place to reside.

The official was unable to confirm whether the directive originated directly from President Trump or if his name had been invoked without his approval.

The eviction order makes sense still, according to an unidentified official.

"She was let go with good reason two weeks ago, and she's still residing in those admiral quarters," he said.

In a message from the Department of Homeland Security announcing Fagan's termination, Acting Secretary Benjamine C. Huffman praised her 'long and illustrious career' while thanking 'her for her service.'

The department subsequently released a statement indicating that Fagan was removed from her position due to 'leadership deficiencies, operational failures, and inability to advance the strategic goals of the US Coast Guard,' including hindering efforts to secure the US border and prevent the entry of drugs into the country.

The statement also accused Fagan of failing to recruit and retain personnel, and claimed that they have had an "excessive focus" on DEI programs.

She had also previously stated: 'Diversity was definitely not there when I joined the service...'

They're just more robust, more capable of withstanding difficulties, possess better insights, and greater intellectual fortitude.

Fagan as Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard in April 2022, as her supporters welcomed her as the first female admiral to lead one of the armed forces branches.

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Over 150,000 U.S.-born infants would be denied U.S. citizenship every year if Trump's order is upheld.

A second federal judge has issued an injunction blocking the Trump administration from carrying out his plan to limit US birthright citizenship, stating that no court in the United States has ever validated the Republican president's explanation of the Constitution.

A US District Judge Deborah Boardman ruled in Greenbelt, Maryland on Wednesday that two immigrant rights groups and five pregnant women were right, arguing that their children were at risk of being denied US citizenship due to their parents' immigration status, a move deemed unconstitutional.

A Boardman, an appointee of President Biden, who is a Democrat and predecessor to Trump, issued a nationwide preliminary injunction on February 2 to temporarily halt Trump's order from taking effect as scheduled on February 19 while the issue is being legally contested.

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Today, every newly born baby in the United States is, by law, a US citizen upon birth," Boardman stated. "This is a fundamental rule in the US; it has been for many years, and it is likely to continue this way until this legal situation is clarified.

A US Justice Department attorney requested 60 days to answer the injunction, without revealing whether the Trump administration would contest it. Boardman's decision grants longer-lasting respite to opponents of Trump's policy than an exchange initiated on January 23 by a federal judge in Seattle, which had imposed a 14-day halt.

The judge, John Coughenour, termed Trump's directive "blatantly unconstitutional". Coughenour is scheduled to examine on Thursday whether to issue a preliminary injunction that would remain in effect until the legal dispute is resolved.

Trump's executive order, signed on his first day back in office on January 20, had instructed US agencies to decline to acknowledge the citizenship of children born in the United States if neither their mother nor father is a US citizen or a lawful permanent resident.

It is a component of Trump's strict policies regarding immigration that he has implemented since regaining authority.

Lawyers for immigration advocacy groups CASA and the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, who initiated the case before Boardman, have contended that Trump's decree contravenes the constitutional provision laid out in the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause, which stipulates that any individual born in the United States is a citizen.

Boardman stated at the hearing that Trump's understanding of the Constitution has been "resoundingly rejected" by the Supreme Court on previous occasions.

In fact, no court in the country has ever sanctioned the president's interpretation," Boardman said. "This court will not be the pioneer in doing so.

The Maryland lawsuit is one of at least eight filed in the United States by Democratic state attorneys general, immigrant rights advocates and expectant mothers contesting Trump's directive.

Pursuant to Trump's directive, any children born within the United States after February 19 will be at risk of deportation and will be barred from obtaining Social Security numbers, various government benefits and the right to work lawfully when they become adults.

More than 150,000 newborns would be denied citizenship each year if the President's proposal is allowed to take effect, as predicted by attorneys general from 22 Democratic states who have filed lawsuits in Seattle and Boston to prevent the policy.

Joseph Mead, a lawyer representing the plaintiffs in the Maryland case, stated that Trump's order is causing "real-world harm for countless people today" because citizenship is "the foundation for so many other rights".

Those opposing Trump's order argue that the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause was clearly defined 127 years ago when the US Supreme Court decided that children born in the US to non-citizen parents are automatically entitled to citizenship.

The Trump administration claims that previous administrations misinterpreted a specific clause in the 14th Amendment, arguing that its text and historical context show that the Constitution does not automatically grant citizenship to children born in the US to immigrant parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily.

The department claims that the 1898 United States Supreme Court decision in the case of United States v Wong Kim Ark had a narrower scope than Trump's detractors suggest; namely, it limited its ruling only to minors whose parents had a "permanent domicile and residence in the United States".

"Unauthorized immigrants are not allowed to be present in the United States," Justice Department lawyer Eric Hamilton stated.

Boardman stated that Trump's order "conflicts with the unambiguous language of the 14th Amendment, contradicts 125 years of established Supreme Court jurisprudence, and is at odds with our nation's 250-year history of citizenship by birth."

The Maryland case was one of several scheduled for hearings between Wednesday and Monday on separate requests by plaintiffs to stop implementing Trump's order before a February 19 deadline.

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The upcoming election will center on three major topics: the potential for separation from Denmark, economic progress, and Greenland's ties with both Denmark and the United States.

"We are in a critical period, one that our nation has never faced before. This is not a time for internal strife," Prime Minister Mute Bøddel wrote on social media.

Greenland's local assembly has uniformly agreed to hold general elections for next month.

Since returning to the White House, Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in acquiring the territory, which has been under Danish control since 1814.

However, while Greenland has stated that it is willing to hold talks with the US, its government has made it clear that the territory will not be sold. Additionally, the government in Copenhagen has ruled out the sale of Greenland, but it has also stressed that the island could achieve independence if its residents were to vote in favor of it.

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Establish a scenic coastline in the Middle East, often referred to as the 'Middle East Riviera'.

Leavitt snapped at a reporter asking if it is 'worth it' for Trump to put troops in harm's way by sending them into the conflict-ridden zone.

"I'm not clear why you're inquiring about that, because I've previously stated that the president has not committed to sending Marines or any troops to Gaza," she replied.

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