Trump Immigration Policy News; City Politics and the Mayoral Race; How IVF Challenges Our Understanding of Embryos; Spring Allergies 101

Donald Trump welcomes President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele to the White House on April 14, 2025.

On today's show:

  • Hamed Aleaziz, reporter covering the Department of Homeland Security and immigration policy for The New York Times, shares his reporting on the Trump administration's immigration policies, including what he and his colleagues at the Times found in their investigation into the deportation of 238 migrants to a prison in El Salvador.

  • Andrew Cuomo's campaign has hit some road bumps this week, but recent polls still have the former governor firmly in first place. Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, and Brigid Bergin, WNYC's senior political correspondent, explain why Cuomo's campaign didn't receive any matching funds from the New York City Campaign Finance Board this week, who gave him a big check instead, and more of the latest news from the mayoral race.

  • Anna Louie Sussman, freelance journalist covering gender, economics, health, and reproduction, discusses her three-part series for The New York Times about human embryos, which explores the legal and ethical considerations people have to manage when they create embryos as part of the IVF process.

  • Jennifer Toh, MD, practicing allergist and immunologist at ENT and Allergy Associates and on the executive committee of the New York Allergy & Asthma Society, answers questions about diagnosing and coping with spring allergies.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.