On immigration, "what if fear is the message?"

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

President Trump has signed numerous executive orders surrounding immigration, but one in particular put everyone on high alert - a move to end birthright citizenship. While the order is unlikely to stand, what does the pushback to this Constitutional right say about the state of our country, and who stands to benefit from its dissolution? Brittany sits down with NPR's immigration correspondent Jasmine Garsd and Homeland Security Department and Immigration Policy Reporter Ximena Bustillo to find out.

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0:26.6	Hello, hello. I'm Brittany Luce, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR,
0:31.8	a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.
0:43.6	Thank you. on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. The business of incarceration and of detention,
0:47.1	everywhere from the coyote to Dr. Phil's ratings,
0:50.9	I think it's important to look at who is making that money.
0:56.0	I'm just absorbing what you just said.
0:59.0	I just, I can't with Dr. Phil.
1:02.0	Sorry.
1:03.0	There's something like almost Orwellian about, like, Dr. Phil interviewing migrants.
1:10.0	But you've never been deported before? We got to, Dr. Phil interviewing migrants. Which you've never been deported before?
1:12.5	We've got to, Dr. Phil.
1:15.1	Yeah?
1:15.9	How do you know me?
1:16.8	Yes, you heard that right.
1:18.9	Dr. Phil was in Chicago, interviewing someone who was actively being arrested by ICE.
1:24.7	This was a part of a ride-along operation with Trump's border czar Tom Homan, amidst the
1:29.9	president's much-promised crackdown on immigration. Now, there's been so much action in the
1:37.9	president's first few days in office. It's been hard to keep up with the flurry of executive orders
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