How Trump's Immigration Policy Is Taking Shape

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Immigration was a major campaign issue for Donald Trump as he sought to return to the White House. Now that he's back, what policies has he implemented, and how to do they align with what he promised on the campaign trail?

This episode: political correspondent Sarah McCammon, immigration policy reporter Ximena Bustillo, and senior national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

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0:24.1	Hey, this is Mediak and I'm currently at the San Diego Airport heading to Miami.
0:29.3	Tomorrow I'll be proposing to my girlfriend and I think slash hope that she has no idea.
0:34.7	This show is recorded at 12.6 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, March 5th, 2025.
0:40.3	By the time that you hear this, things may have changed.
0:42.7	But I'll hopefully be an engaged man to a pretty shocked and surprised and amazing fiancé.
0:48.8	Enjoy the show.
0:53.5	Congratulations.
0:58.0	Good luck. We hope so. Love is real. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Sarah McCammon. I cover politics.
1:03.0	I'm Hima Bustillo and I cover immigration policy.
1:05.0	And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent.
1:08.0	And today on the show, we take a look at how President Trump's immigration policies
1:12.9	are developing so far.
1:15.1	Jimenez, you've been all over this beat.
1:17.5	Immigration, as you know, has always been a major focus for Trump, and it was a really
1:21.5	big focus of the 2024 campaign.
1:24.1	What's happened so far?
1:25.5	Well, Trump kicked off his second term by immediately signing a slew of executive actions aimed at limiting both illegal and legal migration. And this included stopping pathways to seek refugee or asylum status and bolstering the different government resources to arrest, detain, and deport people.
1:45.8	Since there has been a steady stream of many memos, increased agencies that have been tapped into help, such as the military, the IRS, the Justice Department, and increased pressure on the Department of Homeland Security, which is the
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