102 - Immigration: Fact Versus Fiction

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Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 27 August 2018

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Immigration! Man - what a big, complicated topic. What is the Unite State's history with immigration? How much have policies changed over the years? How does illegal immigration actually affect the economy? How does illegal immigration actually affect crime rates? Would building a wall even be effective? Who should we let in? Who should we keep out? I do my best to present as much information as possible to help us all think about this very relevant topic and keep it entertaining! I learned a lot and I hope you do too. Now get to SUCKIN'! Timesuck is brought to you today by The Great Courses Plus! Do yourself a HUGE favor and get SO MUCH amazing, interesting, and informative content for FREE: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/timesuck Timesuck brought to you by Leesa! Go to www.Leesa.com/timesuck to get $160 off a kick-ass mattress!! Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna be a Space Lizard? We're over 3000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits. And, thank you for supporting the show by doing your Amazon shopping after clicking on my Amazon link at www.timesuckpodcast.com

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0:00.0	Immigration, big topic, man, polarizing topic, pan the ass topics research, rap ones mind around.
0:07.2	Very important topic to discuss, very emotional and personal topic for many to listen to.
0:12.1	Proud of this one, worked hard on it, hope it shows. Can the United States open her arms and just let
0:17.4	anyone and everyone pour inside his borders and chase the American dream? Sure, I mean, I guess it
0:22.4	could, but at what cost? How much difficulty would doing so add to those already here and
0:28.0	chasing the dream of property ownership access to healthcare and higher education, the possibility
0:32.4	of a comfortable retirement? Based on 2016, US Census Bureau estimates over 43 million US residents
0:38.4	were living in poverty. 18.5 million Americans were already living in deep poverty, defined as having
0:45.1	a household income below 50% of the poverty threshold. In the continental United States, the poverty
0:50.5	threshold for a family of four was a household income of $24,300. So deep poverty would be
0:57.8	almost 20 million Americans living in a household were less than 12K a year is made.
1:03.6	That's the equivalent of someone working full time all year, but only getting paid $5 an hour, brutal.
1:08.8	Los Angeles County had officially over 55,000 people classified as homeless in 2017.
1:15.6	55,000 homeless people in just one American county. And after living there for over six years,
1:22.4	I believe it. If anything, it sounds low. Financial stability is very, very fragile.
1:27.1	For many Americans, Federal Reserve data reveals that the median value for the amount of money the
1:31.8	average American has in savings is $5,200. median here denoting there are an equal number of people
1:37.3	who have less than this amount as there are people who have more. The median amount of savings for
1:42.4	someone under the age of 35, $1,580. Can we afford to let more people in? Some financial experts think
1:50.4	things that I will be worse if we don't. How many industries are somewhat dependent on immigration?
1:55.4	Or frankly, illegal immigration. How many farms and orchards would go bankrupt without seasonal
2:00.6	migrant labor? Some of which is illegal. How many restaurants could go bankrupt without foreign
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