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1309: Immigration under Biden / Karina Moreno

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🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Urban policy and planning scholar Karina Moreno on her article "Joe Biden’s Immigration Reform Doesn’t Do Enough to Help Migrant Workers" for Jacobin. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/03/joe-biden-immigration-reform-us-citizenship-act

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We've lost the war and say we'll never get our money back my baby's flying me another

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line getting nowhere fast.

0:07.0

My baby might be another lie.

0:13.0

Big your turn! This This is hell.

0:39.0

With apologies for this is hell are you sitting down?

0:53.0

Okay, if you are, are you operating a vehicle?

0:55.0

Because if you are not sitting down, sit down.

0:58.0

And if you are operating a vehicle,

1:00.0

pull over because I'm about to say something,

1:02.0

even I need to sit down just to read as I would certainly

1:07.4

collapse if I try to stand and read what I'm about to say.

1:12.0

And that is, the Biden administration may possibly have come up with maybe a somewhat

1:20.0

adequate immigration policy. I know even with all those

1:24.0

qualifiers of may possibly and somewhat adequate frankly I am shocked don't get me wrong

1:32.0

Biden's immigration proposal still falls far short of actual justice for migrant workers and does nothing to address the real causes of whatever immigration problem there is.

1:42.8

But our guest today does point out that, quote,

1:45.6

there are promising components in the Citizenship Act of 2021.

1:49.4

It establishes that undocumented students can pay the in-state tuition rate.

1:54.0

It proposes ways to promote efficiency in the currently overburdened court system,

1:58.0

one being the addition of 55 immigration judges each fiscal year between 2021 and

2:03.4

2024 and there has been a drastic shortage of immigration judges leading to

2:08.6

backlogs of cases of people trying to get into the country and proposes

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