From The New York Times, I'm Michael Bilbaro.
This is The Daily.
Today, at the heart of President Trump's flurry of executive orders,
was a systematic dismantling of the country's current approach to immigration.
I spoke with my colleague, Hamid Ali Aziz,
about what the orders do and the message that they send.
It's Wednesday, January 22nd.
Hamid, thank you for coming in the studio here in Washington, which is...
Studio might be a little grandiose, so word for what this is.
Sure. Kind of a closet.
It's tight.
Yeah. Yeah. But it gets the job done.
You have spent the past 24 hours or so studying President Trump's executive orders on immigration and what exactly they seek to accomplish.
So with the benefit of that huge amount of time you've had to study this,
how are you thinking about them individually and collectively?
To me,
it seems like President Trump is cramming basically four years of policy into one day.
One half day.
One half day.
When you look back at the first Trump administration,