Trump's Immigration Order Stops Far Short Of Total Ban
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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This episode: campaign correspondent Asma Khalid, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Margaret from Durham, North Carolina, where my neighbor is teaching me hula hoop tricks from across the street. |
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| 0:26.0 | Who P you enjoy? |
| 0:30.0 | Are there someone who knows how to get herself on the radio? |
| 0:34.0 | Memory lane, I haven't used a hula hoop in years. |
| 0:37.0 | I don't know that I could still do a hula hoop actually. |
| 0:40.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm Las Makhalla, I cover the presidential campaign. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm Tamer Keat, I cover the White House. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Mara Laias and National Political Correspondent. |
| 0:51.0 | President Trump has signed an executive action that puts a 60-day halt on new green cards for folks coming in from overseas. |
| 0:58.0 | It would be wrong and unjust for Americans laid off by the virus to be replaced with new immigrant labor flown in from abroad. |
| 1:07.0 | We must first take care of the American worker. |
| 1:11.0 | Take care of the American worker. |
| 1:14.0 | But there are a number of carveouts and on Monday the president tweeted that he would be signing an order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States. |
| 1:23.0 | We should be clear that what has actually been signed and what he announced via tweet are not exactly the same thing. |
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