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The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

Biden announces new immigration protections as first debate approaches

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

MS NOW, Stephanie Ruhle

Washington, Policy, Politics, President, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Msnbc, Congress, Versant, Senate, Government

4.43.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Joe Biden announces a new policy shielding undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens from deportation and says he'll let Trump's tax cuts expire for the wealthy if elected. Plus, Putin arrives in North Korea amidst Russia-Ukraine war. And Trump campaigns in Wisconsin, denying negative comments about Milwaukee. Peter Baker, Raul Reyes, Ali Vitali, Charlie Sykes, Cornell Belcher, Michael McFaul, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, and Nathan Halverson join The 11th Hour.

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0:00.0

Tonight the campaign battle over immigration heating up as the president moves to

0:06.0

shield a half a million undocumented migrants from deportation.

0:09.8

Also Donald Trump doubles down on his anti-immigrant attacks while trying to walk back his comments slamming Milwaukee.

0:17.5

Then the dictator's summit, Putin and Kim Jong-un, two leaders Trump praised meet one-on-one in North Korea, as the 11th hour

0:26.5

gets underway on this Tuesday night.

0:31.1

Good evening once again. I'm Stephanie Rule and we are now 140 days away from

0:38.9

the election. That means there are just 20 weeks until Americans head to the ballot boxes to decide who will be the next president.

0:47.0

Today, the incumbent Joe Biden was making big moves at the White House.

0:51.0

He announced a new executive action to shield undocumented spouses

0:55.4

of US citizens from deportation and he called out Donald Trump for his comments

1:00.4

about immigration.

1:07.0

We can both secure the border and provide legal pathways and citizenship. We have to acknowledge that the patience and goodwill of the American people is being tested

1:12.0

by their fears at the border.

1:13.8

They don't understand a lot of it.

1:15.8

These are the fears my predecessors trying to play on when he says immigrants, immigrants,

1:20.8

and his words are poison the blood of the country.

1:23.4

Folks, I'm not interested in playing politics with the border or immigration.

1:27.8

I'm interested in fixing it.

1:29.5

The president also marked the 12th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or the DACA program.

1:39.0

And then he added this.

1:41.0

Why the action we're taking today matters if you wonder about that just ask business

1:45.9

leaders ask labor leaders ask economists ask elected officials they know it's good

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