The new Trump Administration in Washington, D.C., means major changes are coming to federal policies on immigration — some of them have already started.
After his inauguration on Monday, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border, shut down a government app that helped migrants and others traveling to the U.S., and began the legal process to end the right to citizenship if you’re born in this country.
How will it affect Nevada? To start, 1 in 5 residents here are immigrants and, undocumented or not, they're a major part of the workforce. Will National Guard troops from Nevada be sent to the Mexican border?
We have a team of reporters from the Mountain West News Bureau with us today to explore a lot of the issues and questions. They just published a three-part series on immigration that can be heard here:
- Caught in the middle: How ‘mixed-status’ families are coping with deportation threats
- In the Mountain West, local officials are divided on Trump’s immigration agenda
- Mass deportations could leave a giant hole in critical industries such as service and agriculture
Guests: Rachel Cohen, Mountain West News Bureau (MWNB) Reporter, KUNC; Yvette Fernandez, MWNB reporter, Nevada Public Radio; Manny Holguin, state government reporter, KUNR
