Combat unit ordered to prep for border as part of Trump deportation push
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🗓️ 25 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's The Excerpt, Ad-Free right now. |
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| 0:12.2 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson. And today is Saturday, January 25, 2025. |
| 0:18.1 | This is the excerpt. |
| 0:26.8 | Today, taking a closer look at how Trump aims to use the military on the border. Plus, Pete Heggseth has been confirmed as Secretary of Defense, and a pair of |
| 0:31.9 | pandas make their public debut in Washington. Newark, New Jersey mayor, Roz Baraka, said U.S. immigration agents rounded up undocumented |
| 0:43.3 | migrants as well as American citizens in a raid Thursday, just days after President Donald Trump |
| 0:49.3 | issued a slew of executive orders that aimed to clamp down on illegal immigration. |
| 0:53.3 | In a raid of a business |
| 0:54.9 | establishment in Newark, immigration and customs enforcement agents failed to produce a warrant |
| 1:00.0 | as they detained undocumented residents as well as citizens, according to the mayor. Meanwhile, |
| 1:05.5 | one of the Pentagon's premier units has been ordered to prepare to be deployed to the southern |
| 1:10.1 | border as part of Trump's |
| 1:11.4 | increasing militarization of immigration. I spoke with USA Today, White House and Pentagon reporter |
| 1:17.1 | Davis Winky to learn more. Davis, thank you so much for hopping on the show today. Thanks for |
| 1:22.2 | having me, Taylor. So let's just get to some of the basics here at the top. I mean, what is this |
| 1:26.8 | combat unit and how will they be used as part of Trump's immigration push? |
| 1:30.9 | So a little bit of background here, Taylor. The Trump administration in its early days has issued a flurry of orders and declarations that have made it possible for the military to potentially be more involved with immigration |
| 1:45.8 | enforcement at the border. It's not unprecedented. It's not new necessarily. Trump, in fact, |
| 1:52.1 | inherited a 2,500 soldier border mission from the Biden administration. But he's taking actions |
| 1:59.9 | to expand it, to include earlier this week |
| 2:02.6 | committing an additional 1,500 active duty troops to assist customs and border protection there. |
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