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To the Point

Extreme vetting unleashes global chaos

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It's been three days since President Trump signed an executive order banning all refugees and restricting travel by immigrants, but the consequences have been fast and far-reaching. Travelers were detained, protests escalated at airports in many US cities, and some top Republicans have criticized the order as too broad. Trump has hit back insisting this is not about religion, just terrorism. Barbara Bogaev guest hosts.

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0:00.0

From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

0:08.6

Extreme vetting unleashes global chaos.

0:15.0

I'm Barbara Boghav, sitting in for Warren Olney, and this is To the Point.

0:18.6

President Trump's executive order banning refugees and

0:21.6

barring immigrants from seven Muslim majority countries is just three days old, but it's already

0:26.6

upended hundreds of lives, drawn tens of thousands of protesters to airports around the nation,

0:32.0

and spawned five federal lawsuits, as well as global outcry from across the political spectrum.

0:37.5

Why is a defining campaign promise causing such confusion, and is it constitutional?

0:42.6

Fallout from the travel ban, that's coming up.

0:45.0

And on today's talking point, how Mexico's president laid the foundation for the wall.

0:49.8

A Peña Nieto critic gives his perspective on the U.S. Mexico standoff.

0:54.1

First News.

1:02.6

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1:06.3

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1:11.8

Go to KCRW.com slash News24 or listen on KCRW's app.

1:27.0

Support for To the Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio International Program Fund.

1:34.7

We're back with To The Point. I'm Barbara Bogavin for Warren Allney.

1:38.5

Later in the show, Mexico's president won't be at the White House this week after that tweet for tat with President Trump.

1:45.4

But the two men have a lot in common, even if the two countries are talking about a trade war.

1:50.1

We'll hear reaction from Mexico.

1:52.3

First, our main story. It's been three days since Trump signed an executive order banning all refugees and restricting travel by immigrants.

2:00.5

But the consequences have been

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