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Wednesday, July 22 2015

• Today's Takeaways: Immigration Enforcement, The Sounds of The South, The Digital Wild West July 22, 2015

  The Takeaway explores America's changing immigration system, a folklorist tells tales from the South, and we look at the fight against internet trolls. (episode)

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  • Immigration Enforcement Is Changing July 22, 2015

    Over&nbsp;360 jurisdictions opted out of a federal program that gave local authorities immigration enforcement powers. Will new changes to the program&nbsp;convince communities to reenlist?

  • Defending The $3 Billion Bail Business July 22, 2015

    In the final installment of our series about bail, "Presumption of Innocence for Sale," we wondered, with so many people dissatisfied with the bail system right now, who supports it?

  • Highway Trust Fund Will Run out of Cash in 11 Days Unless Congress Acts July 22, 2015

    Will Congress be able to work together to pass a bill to replenish the Federal Highway Trust Fund? Takeaway Washington Correspondent Todd Zwillich has the answer.

  • History and Nature, Violence and Beauty: Recording the Sounds of the South July 22, 2015

    Folklorist Bill Ferris has spent much&nbsp;of his life patching together a auditory quilt of stories, voices, and sounds that tell a narrative of the south. &nbsp;

  • The Digital Wild West: Time to Close the Internet Frontier? July 22, 2015

    The resignation of Reddit's interim CEO, Ellen Pao, has made the company take a hard look at the bounds of acceptable speech on the site and what its obligations are to its users.&nbsp;