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The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Biden's immigration architect on racism, reform, and the Obama legacy

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Philosophy

4.511.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

NPR journalist, memoirist, and host of the upcoming WBEZ podcast The Art of Power Aarti Shahani talks with Cecilia Muñoz, a former aide to Obama and part of Biden's transition team. It's a conversation about immigration policy reform and the challenges ahead for President Biden — and for a country wrestling with changing demographics, racism, and its history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey, it's Sean Ramos from Host of Vox's Daily News podcast today explained, but this

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of course is Vox Conversations. We're bringing you conversations between some of the brightest

1:09.5

minds and smartest people we know. And up today, Arthi Shahani. She's an MPR journalist,

1:15.2

memoirist and host of the upcoming WBZ podcast, The Art of Power. She's going to be talking

1:20.6

with Cecilia Munoz, former aide to President Obama. And it's a conversation all about immigration

1:26.8

policy reform and the challenges ahead for President Biden and for a country wrestling

1:32.8

with changing demographics and racism and its own history. Here's Arthi.

1:45.6

President Biden has made immigration reform a top priority and sent to Congress the bill

1:50.8

he would like to see past the US Citizenship Act. It's sweeping. It would legalize millions

1:57.0

of people who are undocumented in the US, both youth who were brought here as small children

2:02.4

and adults who themselves may have crossed the border. Biden's proposal would roll back

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