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Immigration Policy Shake Up In Wake Of Nielsen Resignation

Official DHS photo by Jetta Disco.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., Jan. 16, 2018.

President Donald Trump has signaled that he wants to get even tougher on immigration.

In this Politics Day edition of River to River, Ben Kieffer talks with political analysts, Jonathan Hassid of Iowa State University and Rene Rocha of the University of Iowa, about the politics of dealing with the surge of migrant families and children on the U.S. southern border. 

Ben Kieffer is the host of IPR's River to River