What are the motivating factors behind the Trump Administration’s controversial immigration policy proposals? On this edition of the program, Host Carol Castiel and VOA Immigration Reporter Aline Barros talk with Doris Meissner, former Commission of the U.S. and Naturalization Service, now senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, about President Donald Trump’s views on immigration and refugee policy and places them within a historical American context.

The World Health Organization says nearly 800,000 people take their own lives every year. On the next edition of Press Conference USA, Rick Pantaleo along with VOA Health Reporter, Carol Pearson, talk with Paul Gionfriddo, President and CEO of Mental Health America about why people take their own lives and what can be done to help someone who is contemplating such a tragic act.