Encore Plus: Who Is A Good Immigrant, Anyway?
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🗓️ 1 February 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's Coach Witch, I'm Shereen Madisoul Miraji. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm Jean Demby and that sound you just heard was from this weekend's demonstrations |
| 0:10.3 | that was from LA International Airport. |
| 0:12.6 | And just like you, we're processing everything that's going on in the news on our beat. |
| 0:17.1 | Like y'all, we're trying to do our best to keep up, but Man Shereen, it has been a fire hydrant. |
| 0:22.4 | So check out our blog and social feeds for updates because things are changing by the |
| 0:26.1 | minute, especially when it comes to the executive actions regarding the travel ban from seven |
| 0:30.3 | countries with large Muslim populations. |
| 0:33.4 | And all that litigation trying to stop it. |
| 0:36.2 | And Jean, we haven't even dug into the one president Trump signed before the travel |
| 0:41.2 | ban on, and I'm doing your air quotes here, border security and immigration enforcement. |
| 0:47.1 | You remember that one? |
| 0:48.6 | We were so young and innocent way back when last week. |
| 0:52.0 | Here's some of what President Trump said is he signed that executive action that could affect |
| 0:55.4 | the approximately 11 million immigrants who are living in the US illegally. |
| 0:59.9 | As I've said repeatedly to the country, we are going to get the bad ones out, the criminals |
| 1:06.6 | and the drug deals and gangs and gang members and cartel leaders. |
| 1:12.2 | The day is over when they can stay in our country and wreak havoc. |
| 1:16.6 | We are going to get them out and we're going to get them out fast. |
| 1:20.8 | Given President Trump's executive actions on immigration last week, we're going to revisit |
| 1:24.6 | one of our episodes that asked what exactly makes a bad immigrant? |
| 1:29.5 | And in the second half of the show, we'll talk to an economist about the high price of |
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