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Immigration Reform, a mixed bag for Republicans.

Hello again, I'm Orman Alney, and this is To the Poet from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues Americans count about most. Immigration reform means one thing to Republicans on Capitol Hill and something

else to the GOP's chances of winning the White House in 2016. Last week's primaries in Virginia

and South Carolina have dramatized the differences. But while comprehensive reform is being declared

dead in Congress, smaller steps are alive and well in many state legislatures, also controlled by the GOP.

We'll hear how a new generation of so-called dreamers has learned to play a nonpartisan game to accomplish their interests.

Today's talking point, does the U.S. need floppers to succeed in the World Cup? First, here's the news.

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Hello again, Warren. I'll be back with To the Point.

Last week's Republican primaries have exposed differences within the party over immigration reform

when it's unity that will be needed to appeal to Latino and Asian voters in the race for the White House in 2016.

We'll hear how that's created opportunities in the meantime for so-called dreamers to get GOP backing for small steps

short of comprehensive reform. Today's talking point, winning the World Cup may depend on a kind of

theatrics that American players have yet to master. Is flopping just artistic embellishment or

actual cheating? First, this news update. It's the energy shut off that Europe was

hoping to avoid. Russia's giant company Gazprom has stopped supplying natural gas to Ukraine.

This happens on the same day that the new Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, announced his

peace proposal for pro-Russian separatists. Judy Dempsey is editor-in-chief of Strategic Europe.

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