Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential istration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast.
President Trump's immigration actions, like the travel ban, have had large effects in South Florida where many Venezuelan, Haitian, and Cuban people live.
The Trump istration is ramping up immigration action across the country while the tax and spending bill containing immigration provisions is losing momentum in the Senate.