Trump Calls For Stricter Immigration Rules After NYC Truck Attack

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November 01, 2017

An investigator walks past a crashed pickup truck following an incident in New York on Oct. 31, 2017. A pickup driver killed eight people in New York on Tuesday, mowing down cyclists and pedestrians, before striking a school bus in what officials branded a "cowardly act of terror." (Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images)

President Trump is calling for merit-based immigration after Tuesday's deadly truck attack in New York City. Police say a man from Uzbekistan, who was living in the U.S. legally, killed eight people and injured 11 when he drove a truck down a crowded running path.

Here & Now's Robin Young gets the latest from NPR's Hansi Lo Wang (@hansilowang).

This segment aired on November 1, 2017.

Trump Calls For Stricter Immigration Rules After NYC Truck Attack

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