Inside Trump’s Strategy to Push Out Immigrants, and How Tech Giants Targeted Teens at School
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I gave my brother a New York Times subscription. We exchange articles. And so having read the same article, we can discuss it. She sent me a year-long subscription so I have access to all the games. The New York Times contributes to our quality time together. It enriches our relationship. It was such a cool and thoughtful gift.
We're reading the same stuff. We're making the same food.
We're on the same page. Learn more about giving a New York Times subscription as a gift at nytimes.com slash gift. From The New York Times, it's The Headlines. I'm Traci Mumford. Today's Friday, June 5th. Here's what we're covering.
We've been sitting here for almost 12 hours listening to nonsense after nonsense. I've had enough.
Very, very early this morning, the Senate finally wrapped up a marathon voting session.
We're here to complete our oath of office, which is to provide security and safety for the American people.
Ultimately, Republicans prevailed in pushing through $70 billion in funding for President Trump's immigration crackdown. They used a special filibuster-proof process to do it, which kept lawmakers up working all night. And they effectively muscled it through over the objections of Democrats, who'd spent months calling for more restrictions on ICE agents. The measure will now go to the House, where it's expected to be passed quickly. Meanwhile, as Republicans push forward on funding ICE, the most visible part of President Trump's immigration policy, The Times has been looking at some of the more behind-the-scenes efforts the administration's been making to squeeze immigrants. Separate from the high-profile raids, there's also been a wave of new rules and regulations to try and cut non-citizens off from services and opportunities.
My colleagues talked with one woman, originally from El Salvador, who for almost 30 years had a job cleaning airplanes at Logan Airport in Boston. The bathrooms, the seats, the aisles. But she was abruptly fired, along with dozens of other immigrants who worked at Logan legally.
She lost her job when the Trump administration made a bureaucratic tweak about who could access secure areas at the airport. Her immigration status no longer qualified her. That's one example of all the kinds of tweaks the administration is making to immigration in this country.
Nick Nehemas covers the Trump administration for The Times.
The administration is making changes across the board so green card holders can no longer get a government-backed loan. American children will no longer be able to get daycare subsidies if their parents aren't citizens. Many immigrants won't be able to get commercial trucker's licenses. People like refugees can't sign up for Medicare or receive Affordable Care Act subsidies. Many people seeking asylum won't be able to get work permits. Really what we're seeing is the Trump administration trying to pull every lever to make life harder for immigrants in the United States and compel them to leave the country. It's really a fundamental transformation of how welcoming the United States is to immigrants.
Across the country, the social media giants Meta, Snap, TikTok, and YouTube are facing a wave of more than 1,400 lawsuits from school districts. The districts say the companies have made teachers' jobs harder by distracting students. As part of the lawsuits, the companies have had to share thousands of pages of internal documents, including some of their strategies around young users. Digging through them, my colleagues have found that the companies spent years actively trying to get teens to use their products during the school day.
It was striking to see these companies discussing ways to reach kids in the classroom, knowing that that was what they were doing, getting pushback from people within the company saying that this might be disrupting the class, and they went ahead and did it anyway.
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries is an investigative reporter at The Times. She says that one of the documents surfaced by the lawsuits is an internal YouTube memo from 2015 where employees noted that Saturdays drew tens of millions more hours of viewing than a weekday.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:00
2
What funding did Republicans push through for Trump's immigration policy?
5:00–9:29
3
How is the Trump administration impacting immigrants' access to services?
9:29–10:47
4
What behind-the-scenes efforts are being made against immigrants?
10:47–14:16
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