Hi, this is Christine in Concord, California. After being laid off during the pandemic and writing far more cover letters than I prefer to think about. I'm about to walk in on the first day of my brand new job. This podcast was recorded at 12.7 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, January 24th, 2025. Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but I'll finally be back to doing what I went to

school for. Okay, here's the show.

Congratulations and best of luck.

Good luck, Christine.

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

I'm Sarah McCammon. I cover politics.

I'm Frank Ordonez. I cover the White House.

Today on the show, we're going to look at two of the big ways that Trump has taken so far on immigration policy. Oh, how long do we have? There was quite a week

in terms of executive actions, executive orders, and undoing a lot of things that the Biden administration

had put in place, like a very sharp pivot away from Biden's immigration policies and trying to follow through

on the immigration crackdown that President Trump campaigned and won on. The most important

things I would start maybe with the border, I would say, you know, cutting off access to the CBP1 app

that migrants had used to schedule appointments at ports of entry to begin the asylum

process.

That ended on day one, which cuts off effectively the last legal pathway to seek asylum at the

border.

That's a big deal.

Other sort of legal pathways for migrants to come in, those also ended right away.

And some of the other things that the president laid out in those executive

orders that he signed on the first day, I think they don't have instant impact, most of them.

I think they may lay out a blueprint for where he wants to go, how he wants to tighten enforcement

down the road. But we haven't seen yet exactly how that's going to play out.

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