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NPR News: 01-28-2025 6PM EST

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

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0:00.0

This is Eric Glass.

0:01.0

On this American life, sometimes we just show up somewhere, turn on our tape recorders, and see what happens.

0:06.0

If you can't get seven cars in 12 days, you got to look yourself in the mirror and say, holy, what are you kidding me?

0:13.0

Like this car dealership, trying to sell its monthly quota of cars, and it is not going well.

0:17.0

I just don't want one balloon to a car.

0:19.0

Balloon the whole freaking place, so it looks like a circus. Real life stories every week.

0:24.8

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Nearly 1.4 million immigrants in the U.S.

0:32.8

legally could be quickly removed from the country. As after President Trump terminated a couple of binary humanitarian parole programs,

0:41.6

allowed migrants fleeing danger or persecution to be here temporarily.

0:45.8

Imperial Martinez-Beltron explains.

0:47.8

One of the programs, known as CHNV parole, allowed people fleeing Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela,

0:59.1

the opportunity to be in the U.S. temporarily after being vetted and showing proof of a sponsor.

1:07.9

The other, the CBP-1, allowed asylum seekers who used a mobile app to schedule an appointment to be allowed in the U.S. as they await their immigration hearing.

1:10.4

Both programs have ended under Trump.

1:16.6

That would mean that the nearly 1.4 million people who came to the U.S. using a legal pathway could be subjected to expedited removals.

1:19.5

The administration says it's focusing first on individuals who have committed crimes in the U.S.

1:24.7

Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Austin.

1:27.9

What the Trump administration was billing as a temporary pause on federal spending spawned widespread

1:34.5

confusion, where the OMB action set to take effect tonight has now been blocked by D.C.

1:40.1

Federal Court judge's order effectively pausing the White House funding freeze till Monday.

1:45.4

Attorney's General from more than 20 states have also sued to block the action.

1:49.3

Administration officials had sought to clarify confusion over the White House measure today,

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