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this podcast from NPR. WBUR Podcasts, Boston. Whichever extreme you go to here, the government

forcibly separating the families or the government not allowing families to make the decision.

Either of those are inappropriate.

Immigration enforcement sometimes separates parents from their kids or forces American citizens to leave the country.

We'll look at what's legal and what the consequences are.

Thank you. the country. We'll look at what's legal and what the consequences are. It's Tuesday, April 29th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBR. I'm Chris

Bentley.

Today on the show, President Trump threatens to pull funding from cities whose police don't assist with immigration enforcement.

And a Holocaust survivor marks 80 years since the liberation of concentration camp prisoners from Dachau. When I stopped hating, I started living for the first time.

But first, the Trump administration says it was not a deportation, but a parental decision,

to send several American citizen children to Honduras, alongside their mothers who lacked

legal status and were deported.

One of the children is four years old and has stage four cancer. A lawyer for the family said

the child did not have access to treatment when he was in custody. The families also say they

were not given a choice to leave their children in the U.S.

In Louisiana, a Trump-nominated judge said the departure of a two-year-old happened with no

meaningful process. But a Department of Homeland Security representative said it's common for

parents being deported to bring their kids. We wanted to know, is it common for this to happen when the child

is a U.S. citizen? That's what Deepa Fernandez asked Doris Meisner with the Migration Policy Institute.

Well, it certainly is the decision of parents, should be the decision of parents, what the

future for their children are.

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