From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bobarrow. This is the Daily.

Today, at the heart of President Trump's flurry of executive orders was a systematic dismantling

of the country's current approach to immigration.

I spoke with my colleague Hamid Ali Aziz about what the orders do and the message that they send.

It's Wednesday, January 22nd.

Hamid, thank you for coming in the studio here in Washington, which is...

The studio might be a little grandiose word for what this is.

Sure.

Kind of a closet.

Yeah, but it gets the job done. You have spent the past 24

hours or so studying President Trump's executive orders on immigration and what exactly they seek to

accomplish. So with the benefit of that huge amount of time, you've had to study this,

how are you thinking about them individually and collectively?

To me, it seems like President Trump is cramming, basically, four years of policy into one day.

One half day. One half day. When you look back at the first Trump administration, it took

them a long time to

introduce policies like remain in Mexico or, you know, trying to strip federal funds from

sanctuary cities, ban asylum. All of that happened on Monday night within a matter of hours.

And how would you describe the ultimate goal of all these things he crammed into this first half day?

This was a way for President Trump to reimagine

our immigration system to crack down on the system as a whole,

the ability of people to come to this country legally, illegally,

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