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Live from NPR News. In Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. President Trump says he will release video of a recent U.S. boat strike off the coast of Venezuela. NPR's Mara Liasson is explains.
NPR Correspondent Mara Liasson (0:32)
The U.S. strikes on a boat the White House says was carrying drugs has caused controversy after reports that there were survivors after the first strike and that those survivors were killed in a second strike. President Trump said he would certainly release the video of the second strike, but that he's not sure what the US Government has on tape. The president continues to justify the attacks, saying that the boats the US has been attacking are filled with drugs headed for the U.S. he claims that every boat the U.S. destroys saves 25,000American lives, a number that experts say is substantially overstated. He also said the US Would soon be conducting strikes against Venezuelan drug traffickers on land. Mara Liasson, NPR News.
NPR Host Shea Stevens (1:15)
The White House Border Patrol agents are fanning out across New Orleans to arrest and deport immigrants accused of entering the U.S. illegally or committing crimes. NPR's Martin Costi is in New Orleans, where local reaction is mixed.
NPR Correspondent Martin Kosti (1:30)
There seems to be a difference between New Orleans proper and the suburbs on this. For instance, there's a suburb called Kenner which saw a big increase in Latino residents in the last few years there. The city and the police chief have welcomed ice, and Latinos in the community say they're getting a similar vibe from some of their non immigrant neighbors. I talked to a man named Jesse Bermudez earlier today. He runs a Latin American grocery store. I should say that store was completely empty. And he says that's really typical right now. People just aren't coming out. But he told me that a lot of the people in that neighborhood came here to help rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. And now he says, at least on social media, they're being told it's Time to go.
NPR Host Shea Stevens (2:08)
NPR's Martin Kosti. An immigration enforcement operation is also underway in Minnesota's Twin Cities. It targets Somali immigrants President Trump has dismissed as garbage. Japan's prime minister says she respects China's stand on claiming Taiwan as its territory. This following weeks of diplomatic and economic pressure from China. As NPR's Emily Fang reports, earlier, Japan's.