Why Trump is going after green card holders and valid visas

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

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We look at two high-profile immigration cases under the Trump administration with Doris Meissner, senior fellow and director for the U.S. immigration policy program at Migration Policy Institute. Then, Democrats have struggled to reach a consensus on the best way to counter President Trump during his second term. Matt Bennett of Third Way, a Democratic centrist think tank, and Usamah Andrabi, communications director for the progressive group Justice Democrats, join us to explain how the party should take on Trump. And, Dr. Razan al-Nahhas, an American emergency room physician, is on her second medical mission to Gaza. She speaks to us from the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, where she's volunteering, about the impact of the latest Israeli airstrikes into Gaza.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's A. Martinez, a lot of short daily news podcast focus on one story, but sometimes you need a bit bit more.
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0:30.9	They have increased on a daily basis the pace of arrests from the prior administration,
0:38.8	but the actual number of deportations taking place is not greater than it's been under
0:45.7	the prior administration.
0:48.1	Trump administration's immigration agenda might not be very different than Biden's in
0:52.5	terms of the number of people deported so
0:54.9	far, but its tactics are very different, and according to some judges, illegal.
1:16.1	It's Wednesday, March 19th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR.
1:17.2	I'm Chris Bentley.
1:25.9	Today on the show, an American doctor in Gaza reports from a hospital under siege.
1:31.4	And Democrats are out of power. Are they also out of ideas?
1:37.7	Polls show less than a third of voters approved of the party, the lowest level in decades.
1:46.6	So where do the Democrats go from here? You know, I think Democrats right now need to be a true opposition party, and that's not left versus right.
1:48.8	It's uniting the bottom against the top.
1:56.9	I think that's what voters are desperate to see from their leaders and their elected officials is a party that's actually willing to fight back.
2:02.0	Two differing visions for the future of the Democratic Party coming up in about 15 minutes.
2:11.6	But first, the Trump administration is moving fast to remake immigration policy.
2:17.2	Faster than Congress, certainly, and faster even than judges can issue rulings. Earlier this week, we heard from a
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