Jonathan Blitzer and Sarah Stillman on Immigration in the Trump Era
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🗓️ 15 January 2018
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Summary
From the first day of Donald Trump’s Presidency, immigration and deportation have been at the top of the agenda—from the so-called Muslim ban to the use of DACA recipients as a bargaining chip in the quest for a border wall. Under his Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement overturned some of its priorities under President Obama. Immigration arrests rose forty per cent in 2017; in January, 2018, two hundred thousand refugees from catastrophic earthquakes in El Salvador were ordered home, and the State of Washington sued Motel 6 for allegedly handing over guest lists to ICE agents, in violation of the law. The president complained about accepting immigrants from countries he considers “shitholes.” Sarah Stillman and Jonathan Blitzer talk with David Remnick about a year of tumultuous changes in Donald Trump’s America.
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| 1:12.3 | I'm Dorothy Wickenden. On today's politics and more podcast, David Remnick talks with the |
| 1:18.1 | New Yorker Sarah Stilman and Jonathan Blitzer about Trump's immigration policy. |
| 1:25.3 | Immigration arrests were up 40% last year. |
| 1:28.5 | Just in the last couple of weeks, DACA and the status of the Dreamers became a bargaining chip in Trump's quest for a border wall. |
| 1:36.5 | 200,000 refugees from catastrophic earthquakes in El Salvador were ordered home. |
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| 1:51.8 | keep his campaign promise to be far tougher on immigration than any of his predecessors. |
| 1:57.1 | Jonathan Blitzer joins me now, along with Sarah Stillman. They're both staff writers at The New Yorker. |
| 2:02.9 | Jonathan and Sarah, both of you have reported extensively on immigrant communities. |
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