How the Muslim Ban Hurts Rural Health
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 3 February 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Trump’s executive order on immigration is intended to prevent terrorists from entering the country. But it’s also keeping physicians out.
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| 1:11.4 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about |
| 1:16.5 | politics. It's Friday, February 3rd. I'm Dorothy Wicenden, executive editor of the New Yorker. |
| 1:23.6 | Last week, Donald Trump issued an executive order banning immigrants from seven Muslim majority nations. |
| 1:30.2 | I'm establishing new vetting measures to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States of America. |
| 1:40.9 | We don't want them here. |
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| 1:46.5 | to talk about some of the unexpected consequences of that decision. Dr. Fadil, welcome. I'm so glad |
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