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Today, Explained

Not Coming to America

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Traveling to the United States is getting tricky, but there are ways to be careful. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh and Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Further reading: How worried should legal immigrants be about Trump’s deportations? Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Signs and flowers on a tree near where ICE agents apprehended Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk. Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You know the Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli?

0:04.0

He's like, you know, the closest thing we have to a living wall Disney.

0:08.0

Not a big fan of AI.

0:09.0

When someone years ago showed him an AI animation, he responded,

0:13.0

I feel like we are nearing the end times.

0:15.0

We humans are losing faith in ourselves.

0:18.0

That did not stop the internet from posting AI-generated versions of

0:23.2

themselves and just about everything else in Studio Ghibli style last week. And the White House even got

0:28.4

in on the action. Their contribution was a Studio Ghibli-style version of a real-life photo of a

0:34.6

woman crying while being arrested by an immigration officer. That comes after a bunch

0:38.9

of other White House deportation memes, including a Valentine's Day poem threatening illegal

0:43.9

entries with deportation and a post of an ASMR video of a deportation flight. Trump, too, is trying

0:52.2

to do the most on immigration, the illegal kind, but also the legal kind.

0:57.0

That's ahead on today explained.

1:00.1

Thumbtack presents the ins and outs of caring for your home.

1:05.0

Out.

1:06.0

Indecision, overthinking, second-guessing every choice you make.

1:11.2

In.

1:12.1

Plans and guides that make it easy to get home projects done.

1:16.7

Out.

1:17.8

Bage.

1:18.9

On beige.

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