In this week’s Trend Lines podcast, WPR’s Judah Grunstein and Frederick Deknatel discuss the high-profile political crises over Italy’s refusal to offer safe haven for boats carrying rescued asylum-seekers, and the Trump administration’s family separation policy for asylum-seekers. For the Report, Joe Penney talks with WPR’s Robbie Corey-Boulet, about the U.S. military’s growing presence in West Africa, the secrecy that often obscures it, and what that means for the region’s fragile democracie