NPR News: 09-03-2025 6PM EDT
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| 0:00.0 | Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, |
| 0:07.4 | working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theshmit.org. |
| 0:15.1 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. More than three dozen Democrats and two independents in the |
| 0:23.4 | Senate are asking the Department of Homeland Security to clarify its position on recipients of the |
| 0:29.9 | Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. NPR's Hemena Bustillo reports, DHS has previously |
| 0:37.2 | called on DACA recipients to self-deport. |
| 0:40.8 | The program also known as DACA was created in 2012 to protect from deportation children |
| 0:45.6 | who arrived in the country illegally prior to 2007. |
| 0:48.6 | It now benefits about half a million people. |
| 0:51.0 | After winning the election, Trump said he wanted DACA recipients to stay. but earlier this summer, the Department of Homeland Security, told NPR that DACA does not confer legal status and that those who are here illegally should self-deport. |
| 1:03.1 | Immigration advocates say DACA in the past has gotten support from both Democrats and Republicans, but there has been little success in creating a pathway to permanent |
| 1:11.2 | status for people on the program, some of whom are now in their 30s and early 40s. |
| 1:15.9 | Jimenez-Bustillo, NPR News, Washington. |
| 1:18.1 | Florida is taking steps to become the first state in the nation to no longer require vaccinations. |
| 1:24.7 | Kerry Sheridan from Member Station WUSF reports shots to prevent measles and polio in |
| 1:30.6 | children could be the first to go. Florida's Surgeon General Joseph Latipo announced the move at a press |
| 1:36.9 | conference near Tampa. The Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the governor, |
| 1:42.2 | is going to be working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida law. |
| 1:49.0 | All of them. |
| 1:50.3 | He says the State Department of Health can start now by ending daycare and preschool requirements for about seven vaccines. |
| 1:57.0 | Those include shots to prevent whooping cough, measles, mumps, rubella, polio, hepatitis B, and chickenpox. |
| 2:03.5 | Major medical organizations continue to say these shots are safe and effective. |
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