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The Byron York Show

After border disaster, can Biden pull off 'pivot' on immigration?

The Byron York Show

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

More than two years ago, during the transition when he was president-elect, Joe Biden mused what might happen if he mishandled immigration policy. If he got it wrong, Biden said, if he too quickly opened up access to the United States after former President Donald Trump's more restrictive policies, we could "end up with 2 million people on our border." That would be a catastrophe.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Myron Workshore.

0:05.0

You know, Chip Chat podcast.

0:07.0

We would like to get right into it.

0:09.0

And what we're going to get into today is the subject of pivoting.

0:13.0

Pivoting.

0:14.0

And the political sense.

0:16.0

Pivoting.

0:17.0

And what President Joe Biden is doing on the pivot front.

0:21.0

I'm going to talk about a very specific subject that is the border.

0:27.0

But it's actually part of a larger pivot operation that the president has apparently started.

0:34.0

And the question is can he pull it off?

0:36.0

And so let's let's talk about immigration today.

0:38.0

But more than two years ago when he was the president elect, it was during the transition.

0:48.0

Joe Biden mused on what might happen if he messed up.

0:55.0

He mishandled immigration policy.

0:57.0

And I remember he had run for president promising to get rid of all these terrible cruel restrictive Donald Trump immigration policies.

1:07.0

And he was going to open things up.

1:09.0

And he was afraid people might get the wrong idea.

1:13.0

And they might rush to the United States border thinking that if they crossed illegally into the United States, they would be allowed to stay.

1:20.0

Whatever would.

1:21.0

Whatever would make them think that.

1:23.0

So he was he was saying, you know, if we if we get it wrong, if we open things up too quickly, we could quote end up with two million people on our border.

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