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Good morning! It’s Friday, March 7. Storm Team4 says you can look forward to a seasonable weekend – and temps in the 70s next week!

🌺 Highlights from our weekend guide include a free orchid show at the U.S. Botanic Garden, powerful exhibits for International Women’s Day and Family Fun Day at Atlas Performing Arts Center featuring a musical instrument petting zoo. 

Now, on to the headlines.

First, a naturalized Hispanic man says he was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who were looking for another person on a deportation order, and now the man is questioning his vote for President Donald Trump.

Jensy Machado said he is a U.S. citizen and provided News4 documentation of his legal status.

Machado said he was driving to work Wednesday with two other men when he was stopped by ICE agents on Lomond Drive in Manassas, a short distance from his home. He said he was confused by what was happening, why agents surrounded the pickup truck. 

“And they just got out of the car with the guns in their hands and say, turn off the car, give me the keys, open the window, you know,” Machado told Telemundo 44’s Rosbelis Quinoñez, who first reported his story. “Everything was really fast.”

He said the agents said the name of a man they were seeking for a deportation order, someone who had given Machado’s home address. Machado told them that wasn’t his name — he didn’t know anyone by that name — and offered to show them his real ID compliant Virginia driver’s license.

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‘They’re just following Hispanic people’: US citizen detained by ICE questions vote for Trump

“They didn’t ask me for any ID,” Machado said. “I was telling the officer, if I can give him ID, but he said just keep my hands up, not moving. After that, he told me to get out of the car and put the handcuffs on me. And then he went to me and said how did I get into this country and if I was waiting for a court date or if I have any case. And I told him I was an American citizen, and he looked at his other partner like, you know, smiling, like saying, can you believe this guy? Because he asked the other guy, ‘Do you believe him?’”

Machado said he was uncuffed and immediately released after showing his driver’s license.

The two men with him were taken into custody. He does not know why.

Machado said the experience shook his faith in the immigration enforcement efforts of Trump, for whom he voted.

“Because, like I said, I was a Trump supporter,” he said. “I voted for Trump last election, but, because I thought it was going to be the things, you know, like, … just go against criminals, not every Hispanic looking, like, that they will assume that we are all illegals.”

“That’s what they’re doing, now,” Machado said. “They’re just following Hispanic people.”

Immigration lawyers advise residents and citizens to always keep ID with them.

News4 and Telemundo 44 have both contacted ICE for comment and are awaiting a response.

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4Most: Four more big stories

President Donald Trump said he told his Cabinet secretaries during a meeting Thursday that staffing decisions will be left up to them, not Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency.

Trump said he instructed Cabinet members to work alongside DOGE on spending and workforce reductions while clarifying that final job cuts will be at the discretion of the department leaders.

“We just had a meeting with most of the Secretaries, Elon, and others, and it was a very positive one,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “It’s very important that we cut levels down to where they should be, but it’s also important to keep the best and most productive people.”

The Federal Aviation Administration made recommendations about staffing levels and responsibilities in the air traffic control tower at Reagan National Airport in response to the tragic midair collision near the airport Jan. 29.

Only one air traffic controller was in charge of airplane and helicopter traffic when a military helicopter collided with an American Airlines flight, killing all 67 people aboard the two aircraft.

The FAA is pushing back, saying it wants tougher regulations: Having one set of eyes on the planes and another on the helicopters. The FAA to wants to make sure staffing levels are where they need to be at Reagan National’s air traffic control tower going forward. 

A petition drive may have saved a beaver who made its home at a Northern Virginia lake.

Wally the Beaver took up residence at Kingstowne Lake in Fairfax County in September.

“I was excited, yeah,” said Andrew Berman of Friends of Kingstown Lake. “I love coming to the lake and seeing all the wildlife.” 

The U.S. Department of Education will investigate DC Public Schools to evaluate if the district is failing to meet the needs of students with disabilities and special needs, the department announced Wednesday.

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights sent a letter to DCPS Chancellor Lewis Ferebee notifying him of the investigation, a statement from the department said.

“The Department of Education has a solemn responsibility to protect all students from discrimination, especially our most vulnerable,” U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in the statement. “We will ensure schools are fulfilling their commitment to provide all students with equal access to educational opportunities and not placing unnecessary burdens on families to fight for special education services for their children to which they are entitled under law.”