100 years of immigration policies working to keep out immigrants

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🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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President Biden just issued an executive order that can temporarily shut down the U.S.-Mexico border to asylum seekers once a daily threshold of crossings is exceeded. On this episode, we dig into how the political panic surrounding what many are calling an immigration "crisis" at the border, isn't new. And in fact...it's a problem of our own creation.

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0:00.0	On the Ted Radio Hour, linguist Anne Curzan says she gets a lot of complaints about people using the pronoun they to refer to one person.
0:11.0	I sometimes get into arguments with people where they will say to me, but it can't be singular, and I will say, but it is.
0:18.0	The history behind words causing a lot of debate.
0:22.1	That's on the Ted Radio Hour from NPR.
0:24.7	Heads up, this episode contains a mention of sexual assault.
0:32.1	Hey everyone, you're listening to Code Switch. I'm B.A. Parker. Every couple of years you
0:37.4	hear the same thing from politicians. Democrats and Republicans alike over and
0:42.3	over again.
0:43.6	We gotta do something about immigration.
0:45.7	We gotta do something about immigration.
0:47.1	America is at a breaking point
0:48.8	with record levels of illegal immigration.
0:51.2	And today-
0:51.5	I want to be clear to folks in this region who are thinking about making that
0:56.6	dangerous trek to the United States-Mexico border.
1:02.1	Do not come.
1:03.0	Nobody has ever seen anything like we're witnessing right now.
1:06.0	It is a very sad thing for our country.
1:09.0	It's poisoning the blood of our country.
1:12.0	But American border problems won't be fixed until Congress acts.
1:16.7	But we've been trying to do something about immigration for over 100 years.
1:22.4	And yet, we haven't made any concrete reforms
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