US immigration sees radical policy shifts in first year of Trump’s term
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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The US immigration system sees one of the most radical policy shifts during US President Donald Trump's second term. Also, testimonies from Iranians fleeing into Turkey amid a crackdown on protests. And, Guatemala declares a state of emergency following coordinated attacks by gangs. Plus, a listen to Taiwan’s Indigenous Bunun music inspired by natural sounds.
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| 0:00.0 | During the first year of his second term, President Trump has put immigration at the top of his agenda. |
| 0:11.0 | What we have witnessed is a fundamental re-engineering of America's immigration system in a manner that has really been wholly untethered to humanitarian purpose or legal coherence. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. We will look today at the impact of U.S. immigration policy, |
| 0:27.6 | and we'll hear from Iranians who witnessed the violent government crackdown on protesters. |
| 0:33.6 | We were surrounded by police, this teenager says. |
| 0:38.8 | So many people I know are dead. |
| 0:41.8 | And in Brazil, more and more foreign tourists are attracted to this sort of thing. |
| 0:46.5 | There's nobody around us. |
| 0:48.1 | We're so alone and so calm. |
| 0:50.3 | The tranquility of ecotourism. |
| 0:52.8 | We've got all those stories and more today on the world. |
| 0:58.1 | This is The World. I'm Carolyn Beeler. Thank you for joining us today. It was billed as a presidential speech on the U.S. economy and affordability. |
| 1:07.9 | Instead, President Trump spent a lot of time today at the World Economic Forum in |
| 1:12.4 | Davos, Switzerland, talking about this. All the United States is asking for is a place called |
| 1:18.6 | Greenland. Greenland, of course, is a semi-autonomous part of Denmark, which alongside the U.S. is a |
| 1:24.9 | member of NATO. A transatlantic military alliance, Trump went on to say that the United States has never |
| 1:31.2 | gotten anything out of. |
| 1:32.7 | I mean, we've helped them for so many years. |
| 1:34.6 | We've never gotten anything, except we pay for NATO. |
| 1:38.5 | And we paid for many years until I came along. |
| 1:41.5 | We paid for, in my opinion, 100% of NATO because they weren't paying their bills. |
| 1:47.1 | And all we're asking for is to get Greenland, including right title and ownership, because you need the |
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