Biden's executive actions on immigration send mixed signals
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🗓️ 23 June 2024
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Summary
Two weeks later, the President struck a more welcoming tone, saying he'd protect hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens.
Immigration has become a big issue, for both parties. Policy experts say Biden hopes that in a close election year, these executive actions will sway voters to his side.
But will that strategy pay off and how will it affect migrants?
NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with immigration correspondent Jasmine Garsd who is reporting from the San Diego border with Mexico.
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| 0:00.0 | This month President Biden announced several executive actions on immigration, |
| 0:04.4 | week to week sending very different messages. |
| 0:07.6 | The first message, turn back. |
| 0:09.6 | Today I'm announcing actions to bar migrants who cross our southern border unlawfully from receiving |
| 0:16.5 | asylum. |
| 0:18.5 | In early June he severely restricted asylum requests for migrants attempting to cross the US-Mexico border with no |
| 0:24.6 | authorization. |
| 0:25.6 | This ban remain in place until the number of people trying to enter illegally is reduced |
| 0:31.6 | to a level that our system can effectively manage. |
| 0:34.8 | But two weeks later addressing a different group of immigrants, the president struck a more |
| 0:39.6 | welcoming tone. |
| 0:40.6 | For that generation has been renewed, revitalized, and refreshed by the talent, the skill, the hard |
| 0:46.5 | work to courage and determination of immigrants coming to our country. |
| 0:51.8 | In a second set of executive actions, Biden said he'd protect hundreds of thousands of |
| 0:56.1 | undocumented immigrants, those married to US citizens. |
| 0:59.3 | For those wives, their husbands, and their children who have lived in America for a decade and more but are |
| 1:04.0 | undocumented. |
| 1:05.2 | This action will allow them to file a paperwork for legal status in the United States, |
| 1:10.3 | allow them to work while they remain with their families in the United States. |
| 1:13.8 | Let's be clear. |
| 1:14.8 | Two sets of executive actions to very different approaches to immigration policy. |
| 1:19.8 | NPR immigration correspondent Sergio Martinez-Beltran spoke with Alejandro Pas-Medrano. |
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