#55: Busting Immigration Myths
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
After the failure of the health care bill, the Trump administration immediately shifted the focus back to immigration, with Attorney General Jeff Sessions outlining federal sanctions to sanctuary cities at a White House press briefing. Is this new focus about creating real reform, or is it just a distraction?
Hosts Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela bust some of the most crucial myths on immigration with help from Alex Nowrasteh, Immigration Policy Analyst from the Cato Institute, and Erika Andiola, former Press Secretary for Bernie Sanders, and current Political Director for Our Revolution.
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| 0:00.0 | If they want to release all of the data, I think that would be great because we can take a look and parse the data and see what's actually going on. |
| 0:06.2 | But they cite basically essentially anecdotes and when people cite anecdotes that's when your contender should go up and you should be worried. |
| 0:13.2 | Hey welcome to In the Thick a podcast about politics race and culture from a |
| 0:20.4 | POC perspective it's so good to be back. I'm Mariano Hosa and I'm |
| 0:25.6 | Ulio Rico-Lobarella. Welcome back. Oh it's so good to be back in the United |
| 0:29.3 | States. Okay, anyway, joining us from Washington, D.C. is Alex Narasta. |
| 0:34.8 | He is the immigration policy analyst from the Cato Institute, |
| 0:39.2 | which is a Libertarian Think Tank. |
| 0:41.0 | We are so happy to have a libertarian joining us |
| 0:43.0 | Alex. Thank you. You're welcome. Thanks for having me. And also joining us from |
| 0:46.4 | DC is Eddie Gagnola, an undocumented activist who was formerly a press |
| 0:50.8 | secretary for Bernie Sanders and currently serves as the political |
| 0:54.0 | director for Our Revolution which is an organization fighting for policy change |
| 0:58.1 | according to the vision laid out during Sanders campaign. Hey Eddie guyah, welcome to the show. |
| 1:03.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:04.0 | Great, great, great, okay. |
| 1:05.0 | So before we get to our main topic, we're going to recap some of the whoa, major stories of the past week. |
| 1:11.0 | I'm exhausted already. |
| 1:12.0 | We're going to start with the health care bill |
| 1:14.4 | which ended up being well let's say pulled back cancelled pulled off the table due to a |
| 1:21.0 | lack of votes let's just listen to Paul Ryan for a moment. |
| 1:24.6 | Obamacare is the law of the land. It's going to remain the law of the land until it's |
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