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Border security and campaign promises

Hosted by Barbara Bogaev Mar. 31, 2017 National
President Trump has promised tightened borders and a big beautiful wall. Guest host Barbara Bogaev looks at two tent-poles of the President's immigration policy: extreme vetting of visa applicants and building the US-Mexico border wall.

Photo: Street vendors at the pedestrian border crossing in Tijuana, with the US-Mexico barrier at their backs.(Toksave)

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President Trump signed two new executive orders today, aimed at reshaping US trade policy. One puts in place a wide-ranging study of America's half-trillion-dollar deficit...

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Is extreme vetting Trump's invisible wall?

President Trump promised to tighten US borders by restricting travel and building his big beautiful wall between America and Mexico. But legal challenges to his travel ban...

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Making it easier for states to defund Planned Parenthood

Senate Republicans took aim at Planned Parenthood yesterday in a vote that unfolded like a House of Cards episode. With Democrats and two female Republicans opposed, it took...

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Credits

Host:

Barbara Bogaev

Producers:

Katie Cooper, Christine Detz, Evan George

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