Trump Targets Immigrants
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🗓️ 22 January 2025
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Summary
In one of his first acts back in the White House, President Donald Trump signed a bunch of executive orders Monday to severely restrict immigration in the United States. He signed an executive order to end birthright citizenship, a move that's already prompted multiple lawsuits. He also declared a national emergency at the southern border, shut down a Biden-era mobile app to streamline the asylum process for migrants, brought back his 'Remain in Mexico' policy, and paused refugee resettlement, among other terrible things. Emily Green, a freelance reporter covering Latin America based in Mexico, explains the real-world effects of Trump's immigration orders.
And in headlines: Trump granted clemency to all of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik got her chance to flood Senators with vague platitudes during her confirmation hearing, and the Trump administration wastes no time firing people.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, January 22nd. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wadaday, the show welcoming you to the third day of Trump's second term, where everything's made up and the felonies don't matter. |
| 0:18.3 | On today's show, more fallout from Trump's decision to pardon almost all of the January 6th insurrectionists and commute the sentences of the rest. |
| 0:26.3 | And New York Congresswoman Elise Tophonic gets her chance to overwhelm senators with vague platitudes during her confirmation hearing. |
| 0:32.8 | It's a flood out there when it comes to news. |
| 0:35.3 | There are any number of terrible things that have |
| 0:37.9 | happened within the last 48 hours that we could lead the show with today. That is, unfortunately, |
| 0:42.8 | kind of President Donald Trump's way of doing business. Flood the zone with shit, as they say. |
| 0:48.1 | But today, we're going to focus on the many executive orders Trump signed Monday night to restrict |
| 0:52.3 | immigration, including an order to end |
| 0:54.6 | birthright citizenship in the U.S. We're the only country in the world that does this with |
| 1:00.2 | birthright, as you know, and it's just absolutely ridiculous, but, you know, we'll see. |
| 1:06.2 | We think we have very good growth. People have wanted to do this for decades. |
| 1:13.0 | Just as a quick fact check, other countries do have birthright citizenship, including both Canada |
| 1:18.3 | and Mexico. |
| 1:19.6 | But here's my question. |
| 1:21.1 | What's actually in the order? |
| 1:23.1 | Well, Trump wants to deny birthright citizenship to the future children of undocumented |
| 1:27.2 | immigrants, as well as future children of undocumented immigrants, |
| 1:27.9 | as well as the children of those who are here legally, but with only temporary status. |
| 1:33.6 | And he wants to do that by just waving a wand and reinterpreting the 14th Amendment, |
| 1:38.4 | the part of the Constitution where the century-old right lives. |
| 1:41.7 | The administration is already facing lawsuits for more than 20 states |
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