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Immigration Nation

Code Switch

NPR

Society & Culture

4.614.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Anti-immigrant sentiment is on the rise, and the prospect of mass deportation is in the news. But as much as this seems like a unique moment in history, in many ways, it's history repeating itself.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to COSWITCH, I'm Shereen Marisol Maraji.

0:07.1

And I'm Jean Demby.

0:08.2

And this week we're talking immigration.

0:11.8

It's been a dizzying couple of weeks at the US border.

0:17.8

The Trump administration's aim to prosecute in criminal court every person who crosses

0:22.4

the border illegally resulted in children being sent to shelters without their parents.

0:27.5

But after widespread bipartisan outrage over the separations of families at the border,

0:32.7

President Trump reversed course.

0:34.8

We're going to keep the families together.

0:37.2

I didn't like the sight or the feeling of families being separated.

0:42.7

The Zero-Tolerance Policy seems to be on hold for now.

0:45.6

But that doesn't really help with the families who are already split up

0:48.7

with no clear plan for family reunification on the horizon.

0:52.3

And that wasn't the only recent major immigration headline.

0:56.0

The Supreme Court ruled for the government in Trump V. Hawaii,

0:59.9

a ruling that upholds the administration's travel ban.

1:03.6

It's the third iteration of what people used to call the Muslim man.

1:08.6

In the middle of all of this, President Trump took the Twitter saying,

1:12.3

quote, we cannot allow all of these people to invade our country.

1:16.8

Unquote.

1:17.9

He suggested that people who commented the country illegally see no judge or jury

1:22.2

before returning home.

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