How Trump's immigration policy has evolved

The NPR Politics Podcast by NPR

Sep 9, 202622:00News & Politics

After campaigning on a platform to curtail illegal immigration to the United States, President Trump has shifted federal immigration policy to severely limit all forms of immigration. We look at what's happened, and what...

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