Analyzing Immigration Rhetoric and Policy this Election Year

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🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A new Biden Administration policy announced this week will allow undocumented people who are married to American citizens to remain in the U.S. while pursuing citizenship, as long as they have no criminal record and have lived in the country for at least 10 years. The policy, which could protect a half-million people from deportation, comes two weeks after an executive order banning asylum for unauthorized migrants at the southern border — the most restrictive action on asylum by a Democratic president. We’ll talk about Biden’s election-year approach toward immigration, the Trump campaign’s rhetoric and how both are using the border to court voters. Guests: Hamed Aleaziz, covers the Department of Homeland Security and immigration policy, The New York Times Molly O'Toole, fellow, Wilson Center - Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter currently working on a book on immigration for Penguin Random House Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.0	Coming up on forum, recent polls show immigration is a top issue for swing state voters this election year,
1:12.7	which could explain why President Joe Biden appears to be trying to split the difference
1:17.7	with two very different immigration actions in recent weeks. More Democrats are calling for the kinds
1:23.5	of border security measures the party once denounced under former President Donald Trump.
1:29.0	Is it fair to say Trump has redefined the borders of the immigration debate?
1:33.1	Or is it that many American voters have shifted to the right on immigration
1:37.2	as record numbers of people try to cross into the U.S.?
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1:50.4	This week, you may have noticed President Biden announced that the undocumented spouses
1:55.3	of American citizens who have lived in the U.S. for at least a decade will be able to
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