My administration is facing backlash for a new executive action on immigration that's being compared to asylum restrictions that were enacted by Donald Trump.

Immigration is foremost on people's minds and never far from the headlines.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

America's view of our immigration problem

is so focused on the Oval Office and the border. That's where we think we'll find a quick fix.

There's this fantasy of a silver bullet in the American political discourse that, you know, if only the administration

could just turn off immigration at the southern border

the problem would be solved and obviously doesn't work like that.

Also on the show the importance of nuance when employing terms like

colonialism, decolonization, and liberation to talk about the crisis in Palestine.

There's a lot of these wars kind of flying around and there are many people who are not using them in a way that further the debate or even informed people.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. Michael Loeinger's out this week, I'm Brooke Laddstone.

As I write this, President Biden just gave a press conference that showcased his mastery of foreign policy and deep

experience with the Senate. But it didn't seem to assuage a growing number of

Democratic Party members who no longer see him as their best choice for the top of the ticket

especially in a crucial election just four months from now. Yet even his

critics, especially his critics,

laud him as a great president who gets things done.

But even so, immigration policy remains a sticky wicket. Case in point, in mid-June on the 12th anniversary of DACA,

that's the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program,

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