Assessing Economic Damage from Trump's Latest Immigration Ban
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🗓️ 23 June 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Kater Daily Podcast for Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Caleb Brown. |
| 0:06.2 | The White House attempted to end DACA, the Obama-era program that aimed to protect |
| 0:11.0 | child immigrants from deportation, the Supreme Court responded |
| 0:15.0 | that the Trump administration had done it the wrong way. |
| 0:18.3 | The White House response, a new order that will, with a few exceptions, freeze guest workers entering the United States |
| 0:24.7 | through the end of the year. |
| 0:26.5 | Cato's Alex Narasta describes the economic damage that this order will likely do. |
| 0:31.7 | The president was handed something of a rebuke by the US |
| 0:35.9 | Supreme Court. They said that his attempts to end the deferred action on childhood |
| 0:42.1 | arrivals, the Obama era program that the at that time his attempt to undo it he did it the wrong way according to the |
| 0:56.7 | Supreme Court so what has he done in response so what he's done in response is two things. One he has said that he is going to |
| 1:08.0 | repeal DACA that is going to make sure to do it correctly, dock their legal eyes and cross their legal teas. And secondly, last |
| 1:16.0 | night he issued a presidential proclamation that will severely restrict the issuance of new guest worker visas in several categories, |
| 1:28.2 | including the H-1B visa for skilled workers, as well as several other visas for lower skilled workers and |
| 1:35.0 | limit the government's ability to issue these visas to people until the end of |
| 1:41.6 | this year and I will predict that if he wins re-election he will |
| 1:47.6 | continue to restrict the issuance of these visas for as long as he is in office. |
| 1:54.3 | So what are the likely short-term impacts here? |
| 1:58.8 | We're seeing a resurgence in coronavirus in the to help. So there are several exceptions in the |
| 2:14.8 | executive in the proclamation. One of them is for health care workers who are |
| 2:18.8 | working in coronavirus related fields either as research or as medical providers. |
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