Day: January 26, 2025

Last week, Congress passed the Laken Riley Act with bipartisan support. Once signed by President Trump, the Department of Homeland Security can detain illegal immigrants who have been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting. In his first week in office, the president signed several border Executive Orders, causing controversy in sanctuary cities nationwide. FOX News Senior Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram explains the legislation, how it garnered bipartisan support, and the outcome of Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth’s Senate confirmation hearing. President Trump wasted no time this week fulfilling his campaign promise to secure the southern border and deport illegal aliens through a flurry of executive actions. The second Trump Administration is attempting a more focused and organized approach to immigration, emphasizing the deportation of violent criminals—a shift from the first term, which faced criticism over perceived disorganization and controversial deportations. Retired ICE agent Victor Avila discusses how this will play out over the coming year.
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The fall of Syria’s leader in December opened the doors to a vast network of detention centers and prisons across the country, uncovering further evidence of the true scale of killings under former president Bashar al-Assad. On this episode of The Sunday Story , NPR’s Ruth Sherlock takes us to a notorious prison where thousands were detained and killed, and she visits a suspected mass gravesite outside Damascus. She meets former prisoners and those forced to play a role in what has been called the regime’s “machinery of death.” Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy