100 days of Trump's aggressive immigration overhaul
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🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and border czar Tom Homan held a briefing Monday to tout the Trump administration’s record on immigration. There, reporters asked about the recent deportation of three U.S. citizen children.
According to recent polls, Trump is increasingly losing support for his hard-line approach to immigration enforcement. Co-host Colby Itkowitz talks to White House reporter Marianne LeVine about what the first 100 days of Trump’s immigration policies add up to – and what we could expect next.
Today’s show was produced by Emma Talkoff. It was edited by Maggie Penman and Ariel Plotnick. It was mixed by Sean Carter. Thank you to Christine Armario.
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| 0:00.0 | This week marks a major milestone in Trump's second term as president. |
| 0:07.0 | Tuesday will be his 100th day in office. |
| 0:10.0 | The Trump administration is holding a press conference every morning this week to highlight |
| 0:14.0 | what they see as their biggest achievements. |
| 0:17.0 | Today we kick off 100-day week with a focus on the president's historic effort to secure our southern border. |
| 0:24.2 | Trump's press secretary, Caroline Levitt, and border czar, Tom Holman, came ready to play up the administration's accomplishments. |
| 0:31.4 | But some reporters were more focused on the recent controversies surrounding Trump's immigration policies, |
| 0:36.5 | especially the three young American |
| 0:38.2 | children who were sent to Honduras on Friday, along with their non-citizen mothers who had crossed |
| 0:42.8 | the border illegally. |
| 0:44.3 | When asked about removing U.S. citizens, seemingly without due process, Homan doubled down. |
| 0:49.6 | If you choose to have a U.S. citizen child knowing you're in this country illegally, you |
| 0:53.2 | put yourself in that position. You you put yourself in that position. |
| 0:55.0 | You put your family in that position. |
| 0:57.0 | Trump's hardline immigration stance |
| 1:01.0 | is credited with helping him win the presidency a second time. |
| 1:05.0 | But now, a majority of Americans, |
| 1:07.0 | 53% are not happy with Trump's handling of the issue. |
| 1:14.5 | That's according to a new Washington Post, ABC News, Ipsos poll. |
| 1:19.7 | Immigration reporter Marian Levine has been covering the White House's nonstop actions on immigration. |
| 1:29.1 | Well, President Trump in his first 100 days has made it very clear that immigration is either his top policy priority or among his very top policy priorities. |
| 1:33.5 | Trump, on his first day in office, announced a national emergency at the border. |
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