Green Light for Affirmative Action, Red Light on Immigration
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Two major decisions today from the US Supreme Court -- A 4 to 4 deadlock effectively ended President Obama’s sweeping immigration plan to prevent the deportation of parents of citizens and lawful permanent residents. And today the court upheld the affirmative action program at the University of Texas, Austin.
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| 0:30.6 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:38.8 | Green light on affirmative action, red light on immigration. |
| 0:45.7 | I'm Barbara Bogave sitting in for Warren Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:51.0 | The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a pair of blockbuster decisions today. The Justice has found race-conscious college admissions are constitutional, but they deadlocked on President Obama's immigration plan that would have shielded some 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation. |
| 1:06.0 | What's next for these families living in legal limbo? |
| 1:09.0 | Also today, riots, starvation fears, and mass looting across Venezuela. |
| 1:13.7 | The country is in the grip of severe food shortages and runaway inflation after several years of economic chaos. |
| 1:20.1 | How is the country with the world's largest oil reserves reached the brink of collapse? |
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| 1:50.3 | Support for To the Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio International Program Fund. |
| 1:59.1 | This is To the Point on Barbara Bog Barbara Bogaive, in for Warren |
| 2:01.2 | Al-Ni. Coming up, Venezuelans can't afford to eat. Chronic food shortages and a failing |
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