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Will immigrant roundups make America safer?

Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point.

President Trump has given enforcement agents new authority to arrest almost any undocumented immigrant, even if they're working and paying taxes. Critics say that's a license to pick the low-hanging fruit, rather than doing the hard work of finding drug dealers and gang members who really are dangerous. Agents themselves say they've been freed from limitations imposed by the

Obama administration, so they're finally able to do their jobs. We'll hear about that argument,

the likely crowding of courts and detention centers, and the climate of fear in immigrant

communities. Later on today's talking point, a 4,000 percent price increase for a drug that's been available for many years.

First, the news.

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Hello again, Warren. I'm back with To the Point. The secretaries of state and homeland security are in Mexico today, meeting with officials reported to be unhappy about the Trump administration's plans for deporting undocumented immigrants.

Meantime, promised roundups are already beginning, and the next step is expedited deportations.

We'll hear more about that.

Today's talking point, children with a rare form of muscular dystrophy, have been able to import

medicine from other countries for $1,200 a year. Now that same drug has been officially approved in the United

States for $89,000 a year. Our incentives for developing new drugs being wrongly applied to an old one.

First is news update. Do your job! Do your job! Last night in Arkansas, U.S. Senator Tom Cotton became the latest Republican to have a town hall disrupted by protesters.

In Arizona, no such disruption has taken place, but the state legislature is redefining a law aimed at organized crime to apply to protests.

Just in case.

Howard Fisher reports for Arizona Public Radio.

Howard, good to have you with us.

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