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Tensions over L.A. immigration sweeps boil over as Padilla is tackled, ICE arrests pick up; IN residents watch direction of Trump spending bill amid state budget cuts; More than two dozen 'No Kings' events planned Saturday across Montana.

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The Public News Service Daily Newscast, June the 13th, 2025.

I'm Mike Clifford.

Tensions over President Trump's immigration crackdown boiled over Thursday as Senator Alex Padilla of California was forcibly removed from the Homeland Security News Conference as immigration agents swept across the region, arresting people suspected of living in the United States illegally.

That for the LA Times.

They report outrage over the operations has sparked a week of protests with California officials going to court in an attempt to roll back Trump's deployment of the National Guard to LA without the consent of state or local leaders.

Secretary Christy Noem said at a news conference Thursday that the department is not limiting its arrest only those with criminal records.

The Times reports in fact, two thirds of those taken into custody so far have no criminal records, according to the White House.

And as Congress reviews budget slashes to healthcare and President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a new evaluation from the nonpartisan CBO projects 16 million Americans, including 1.8 Medicaid and Healthy Indiana plan recipients would go without health insurance.

Josh Bivens, chief economist at the nonpartisan think tank, the Economic Policy Institute said if the bill passes as is, health providers would see a sharp increase in what is known as uncompensated care when people without coverage get sick, but are unable to pay.

And it means hospitals and doctors no longer receive that income stream from Medicaid payments, and lots of them are gonna be forced out of business, and there's gonna be closures of hospitals, especially in rural counties.

Republicans questioned the Congressional Budget Office projections.

They believe that cutting $715 billion from Medicaid eliminates fraud and want to add specific work mandates for healthy working age adults.

The GOP bill aims to fund Trump administration priorities, including more immigration rates and border wall construction, and extending tax cuts passed in 2017.

I'm Terri Dee reporting.

And while the Trump administration throws a parade tomorrow funded by taxpayers, Americans will gather at 1,800 protest events around the nation, including more than two dozen in Montana.

Dubbed as No King's Rallies, they coincide with a military parade in Washington, DC to honor President Donald Trump on his 79th birthday, which is also the US Army's 250th anniversary and Flag Day.

Rose, who asks to be identified only by her first name, is a co-founder of Missoula Resists, a Montana collective that supports science, human rights, and community through action.

She says the 25 events scheduled around rural Montana show that though the state is often written off as red, many Montanans still feel it's purple.

It is a reflection of the fact that we are independent-minded, and we are willing to say when someone has gone too far, and when the government is no longer reflecting the will of the people.

Montana events are scheduled from Glendive to Haver to Libby and more.

I'm Kathleen Shannon.

This is Public News Service.

Next to California, where a college student faces prison time after rescuing four sick chickens from a Sonoma County slaughterhouse.

The case is reigniting debate about how animal cruelty laws are enforced and against whom.

Zoe Rosenberger, UC Berkeley senior and longtime animal advocate, entered Purdue's Petaluma Poultry Slaughterhouse last year and removed four chickens she says needed urgent care.

Rosenberger later published video evidence and alerted authorities, but instead of launching an investigation, police arrested her on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges.

I documented chickens who were collapsed on the floor, too weak to stand and unable to get to food and water.

I reported it to law enforcement.

Didn't get any helpful response.

I personally rescued four chickens from the back of a slaughter truck.

California law bans acts causing unnecessary animal suffering, but enforcement often falls to local agencies, which Rosenberger and others say rarely investigate large-scale farms.

Petaluma Poultry is a subsidiary of Purdue Farms, one of the nation's largest poultry producers.

Farah Siddiqui reporting.

This story was produced with original reporting from Seth Milstein for Sentient.

Meantime, the budget reconciliation bill being considered by the US Senate proposes $863 billion in Medicaid reductions over a decade.

In Florida, where 760,000 Medicaid enrollees rely on community health centers, advocates say the cuts would destabilize preventative care and overwhelm hospitals.

Austin Helton, who leads Brevard Health Alliance, says the cuts would dismantle primary care access, rupturing what he calls Florida's healthcare ecosystem.

If you cut spending on Medicaid and ACA, which primarily pays for the access to primary care health services at community health centers, if that access is gone, the patients are still going to need that care.

They're just gonna end up sicker, and they're gonna end up going to more costly and more complex environments like the emergency room at the hospital.

While the Florida Policy Institute warns of clinic closures and reduced hours, supporters say the changes target inefficiencies, with House leaders claiming they'll reduce wasteful spending while protecting vulnerable patients.

I'm Tramiel Gomes.

Finally, California took a big step this week toward the goal of conserving 30 percent of land and waters by 2030.

The Ocean Protection Council adopted a roadmap to decide which protected waters will count toward the goal.

Michael Esgro is the senior biodiversity program manager at the council.

We're now at 21.9 percent of coastal waters conserved, so more than three quarters of the way to our 30 by 30 goal here at the halfway point of the initiative.

We have another almost 300,000 acres to conserve by 2030.

The council refined the roadmap over the past year in a series of public workshops and consultations with tribes.

I'm Suzanne Potter.

This is Mike Clifford.

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