Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What recent executive order did President Trump sign regarding tariffs?
President Trump Friday signed an executive order to remove tariffs on a large number of commodities. The move is partly in response to pressure from consumers who say food prices are too high. Among the affected items are beef, coffee and tropical fruits.
For the most part, the foods, when we cut back a little bit on those tariffs, we'll get the price down. But they're not competitive in this country, like tomatoes and bananas and things. We don't make them in this country.
Trump also said he's reached framework agreements with Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador and Argentina to ease import levies on agricultural products produced in those countries. Immigration lawyers in San Diego say they're seeing a sudden increase in arrests of clients at the offices of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Many are in the middle of applying for permanent status or naturalization. As NPR's Martin Costi reports, the lawyers say it's a sign of what looks like a new ICE policy.
U.S. CIS offices are bureaucratic places where detentions are rare, unlike immigration court. But lawyers in San Diego say that suddenly changed this week. Tessa Cabrera says she was with a client who didn't have legal status but was applying for a green card.
To have two ICE officers storm into an office and immediately order my client to stand up and place him in handcuffs was just unlike anything I've ever experienced.
USCIS would not say whether its arrest policy has changed. In a written statement, it says, quote, apprehensions at USCIS offices may occur if individuals are identified as having outstanding warrants, being subject to removal orders, or committing fraud, crimes, or other violations while in the United States. Martin Koste, NPR News.
The Labor Department says it will release a report on September's job gains next week, as NPR's Scott Horsley reports it's the first in a series of overdue economic reports that were held up by the government shutdown.
The September jobs report was almost complete and supposed to be rolled out six weeks ago, when the economists who produced the report were abruptly furloughed by the government shutdown. The Labor Department says the jobs report will come out next Thursday, showing how many jobs employers added in September, as well as the unemployment rate.
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Chapter 3: How are immigration arrests changing in the U.S.?
to lay out options for an international stabilization force. Both proposals are expected to be put up for a vote early next week. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.