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April 7, 2026

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ICE deported Brian Morales Garcia, who says he is a U.S. citizen, to Mexico after a Texas traffic stop

After Texas troopers stopped a pickup near Fredericksburg for a window-tint violation on April 3, 2026, and called in federal immigration agents when passenger Brian Jose Morales Garcia could not produce identification, ICE and Border Patrol detained him for five days and removed him to Mexico on April 7 despite his repeated statements that he was a U.S. citizen born in Denver. Morales says he was denied the chance to retrieve his birth certificate and Social Security card and signed a quick-departure form only because he feared months in detention. The Department of Homeland Security disputes his citizenship and claims he admitted entering the country illegally.

ICE agents shoot Carlos Mendoza Hernandez six times during traffic stop in Patterson, California

ICE agents opened fire on Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, 36, during an early-morning vehicle stop near Interstate 5 in Patterson, California on April 7, 2026, striking him about six times, including in the jaw; he survived after multiple surgeries. ICE said he was a suspected 18th Street Gang member wanted for questioning in El Salvador and had tried to run over an agent — claims his attorney disputes, saying dashcam video and witnesses show he reversed to flee only after agents began shooting. After hospital release he was taken into FBI custody and indicted on federal assault charges, to which he pleaded not guilty.

Trump sold up to $1 million in ExxonMobil stock the same day he announced the Iran ceasefire, hours before shares fell 6.5%

President Trump's investment accounts sold between $500,000 and $1 million in ExxonMobil stock on April 7, 2026, the same day Trump declared a ceasefire in the U.S.-Iran war; Exxon closed at $163.91 that day and opened 6.5% lower the next morning. The sale was one of hundreds of thousands of dollars in trades across Exxon, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and other oil and gas companies that Trump's accounts made during the first half of 2026, a period in which his disclosed energy holdings rose in value from an estimated $13–46 million to $17–61 million as the war drove oil prices higher. The White House said Trump's portfolio is independently managed by third-party financial institutions and that neither he nor his family directs individual trades.