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Today, Explained

From Alligator Alcatraz to South Sudan

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Trump administration is not happy with their deportation numbers. They're turning to more extreme strategies to hit 1 million by year's end. This episode was produced by Gabrielle Berbey, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Noel King. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. The entrance to the Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention center in Ochopee, Florida. Photo by Pedro Portal/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

President Trump met with the leaders of five African nations at the White House yesterday.

0:05.5

One oops got all the attention when Trump paid Liberia's president a compliment.

0:11.0

Well, thank you. It's such good English. Such beautiful.

0:14.2

Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?

0:17.5

English is Liberia's official language.

0:20.5

Were you educated? Where? In Liberia? Yes,

0:26.0

well, that's very interesting. Anyway, you know what happened behind closed doors right before that

0:30.6

meeting? President Trump pushed those African leaders to accept people who are being deported from the U.S.

0:36.9

That's according to a Wall Street Journal exclusive.

0:40.4

The Trump administration is going increasingly ham on sending people who entered the U.S.

0:44.7

illegally to countries that they are not from.

0:47.6

In fact, it's trying all kinds of ideas to increase the pace of deportations,

0:51.0

and we're going to tell you the latest today on today explained.

1:05.2

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1:46.1

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2:02.2

And he's back.

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