Franco Ordoñez

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156 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 9 Sep

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The NPR Politics Podcast · How Trump's immigration policy has evolved · 9 Sep 2026 podcast

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Though oftentimes this is kind of a referendum of the president. matched

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But absolutely, Miles. matched

I mean, this is gonna be an issue in certain states more than others. matched

I'd say Texas, for example, where Ken Paxson is running against James Telarico. matched

I think that's probably the most obvious issue considering the border politics there continue to be, you know, deeply embedded in the electorate. matched

Very interesting in this race. matched

Is because how particularly competitive it is. matched

Uh, you know, Democrats see an opportunity because of what we were talking about earlier, and the high number of Latinos have been turned off by Trump on immigration and trying to kind of exploit that. matched

Also, North Carolina, very similarly, where Roy Cooper is running against Michael Watley, the Republican, also a large Latino population, and the Democrats are trying. matched

To make the debate about the consequences of Trump's enforcement policies. matched

Another interesting one is Maine. matched

I mean, it's not the biggest immigration state, but it is a good state to watch where Republican Susan Collins, the incumbent, is running against Troy Jackson. matched

But Susan Collins, in this case, represents a more moderate Republican constituency. matched

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So this is going to be kind of a test of how some Republicans in competitive states may be actually trying to distance themselves from some of Trump's more aggressive tactics, more of those aggressive elements that you were talking about earlier, Miles, where US citizens were killed in protests and demonstrations. matched

That's the part that I find very fascinating because I mean the immigration system, the backlog of these cases, we've talked about a lot, that it's just years and years and years and long. matched

And this is one of the things that this administration and past administrations has been trying to tackle for a long time. matched

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