Trump policies leave historic number of legal immigrants at risk for deportation
Here & Now Anytime
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
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Then, CBS held a story alleging abuse at a detention center in El Salvador from air. Now, it’s online. NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik details what we’ve learned.
And, the U.S.’s interception of oil carriers from Venezuela is deepening an economic crisis in Cuba, which relies on Venezuelan oil. The Wall Street Journal’s Juan Forero explains the impact.
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| 0:23.0 | These were like like legal pathways. |
| 0:25.2 | People like did the thing the government asked them to do. |
| 0:28.1 | And this government went and is kind of preemptively trying to revoke that status. |
| 0:33.6 | In just 11 months, the Trump administration has stripped more than 1.6 million immigrants of their legal status. |
| 0:52.3 | It's Tuesday, December 23rd, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBOR. |
| 0:57.7 | I'm Chris Bentley. |
| 1:00.9 | Today on the show, the new editor-in-chief of CBS spiked a 60-minute story, critical of the Trump administration, and outrage has been swift. |
| 1:13.8 | Also, the American pressure campaign against Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro is also herding Cuba. Cuba cannot survive a situation |
| 1:21.8 | where the Venezuelan regime falls. That is part of the plan for some Trump administration officials like Secretary |
| 1:28.7 | of State Marco Rubio, who have wanted regime change in both Cuba and Venezuela for years. |
| 1:37.5 | That story coming up in about 10 minutes. But first, in the just about 11 months he's been in office. |
| 1:44.9 | President Trump and his administration have successfully stripped more than 1.6 million immigrants of their legal status. |
| 1:53.0 | NPR reports that this is the largest removal of deportation protections from legal migrants in American history. |
| 2:00.6 | In its haste to ramp up deportations, |
| 2:03.6 | the administration has used aggressive tactics, sometimes violent ones. It has arrested American |
| 2:08.8 | citizens and deported migrants with little to no due process. More from NPR's Jimenez |
| 2:15.1 | Bustillo in this conversation with Peter O'Dowd. |
| 2:18.0 | Let's start with the news. A federal judge has ruled that nearly 140 migrants deported to El Salvador in March were not given due process. |
| 2:26.9 | And the administration was ordered to do something about that by January 5th. What do we know? |
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