Summary
With important midterm elections happening later this year, we look at immigration in Baltimore. It's a defining domestic issue in President Trump's second term. One of his boldest pledges was for mass deportations - to send anyone who'd entered the US illegally back to their home country. We meet one Guatemalan woman facing that prospect.
Also in the programme: how some of Baltimore's derelict housing is being spruced up; and the US broadcasting mogul Ted Turner has died at the age of 87.
(Photo: Zoila Guerra Sandoval, living in Baltimore but facing deportation to Guatemala. Credit: BBC)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.5 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour with me, Regina Vaidyanarthen. |
| 0:13.5 | Today we're coming to you from America and the city of Baltimore on the east coast of the United States. |
| 0:19.5 | We're about an hour north of the capital |
| 0:21.1 | Washington, D.C., and about three hours south of New York City. Well, News Hour is broadcast |
| 0:26.2 | around the world to millions of listeners, including hundreds of public radio stations across |
| 0:31.5 | the US. So today we're coming to you live from one of our valued partners, WIPR. Well, since last month, the station |
| 0:39.2 | joined the Newshour family, so we're welcoming new listeners on the east coast of the US and across |
| 0:44.1 | the state of Maryland. And it couldn't be a more interesting and important time for us to be here |
| 0:49.7 | in America. Well, Baltimore's known as the Charmed City. It's an historic and major port city, |
| 0:55.8 | and we've been down to the waterfront to see the ships and the containers which handle everything |
| 0:59.8 | from cars to machinery, minerals to food. Well, the effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz |
| 1:05.6 | has had an impact on goods arriving here with delays and increased costs. And later in the program, we'll be hearing from voters on how rising fuel and food prices |
| 1:15.2 | could sway their vote in this year's midterm elections. |
| 1:19.4 | But first, let's take a look at another issue which has defined President Trump's second term domestically, |
| 1:25.0 | and that is immigration. |
| 1:26.4 | One of his boldest pledges was a mass deportation drive to send anyone who'd entered America |
| 1:31.5 | illegally back to their home countries. |
| 1:34.4 | Well, the policy's been hugely controversial, especially here, in democratically run Maryland, |
| 1:39.9 | where one in six people in the state was born overseas. |
| 1:43.8 | We're at the port of Baltimore. |
| 1:46.2 | It's a beautiful sunny day. |
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