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Biden's Immigration Mess

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Pro-immigration advocates had high hopes when the Biden administration came to office that some of the harsher policies imposed by Trump would ease. Instead, immigration policy has been a mess inside the White House. The move to rescind Title 42 – a health policy that the Trump administration used to restrict migration at the U.S.-Mexico border is now further dividing Democrats.  Guest: Tyler Moran, former deputy assistant to President Biden and senior advisor for migration. Moran co-founded the Immigration Hub and has 20 years of experience developing and implementing immigration policy.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There's gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

0:07.0

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like it was so it was all wrapped up

0:12.7

but it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and had a little ribbon on it

0:16.4

and I was so guest. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now

0:21.6

so for that one change me a little.

0:23.8

Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

0:35.8

Tyler Moran can describe President Trump's immigration policies in one word.

0:40.5

Cool.

0:41.7

We had four years of President Trump and that administration put in place approximately 1000 policies

0:50.1

that were all intended to gut the immigration system.

0:55.1

Tyler has spent the last 25 years working on immigration both in and out of government.

1:01.1

When she joined the Biden administration in 2021 she was on a mission to undo what Trump's White House had done.

1:08.1

And President Biden ran on restoring order and fairness to the immigration system

1:17.9

and I volunteered on the transition team and it was exciting to think about things like

1:24.2

turning back the Muslim and the refugee ban reuniting children, sending a bill to Congress that

1:30.5

reformed our immigration system once and for all.

1:34.8

There have been some genuine accomplishments on President Biden's watch

1:39.1

but the fundamental problems haven't been fixed. Right now attempted crossings

1:44.2

of the U.S. Mexico border are at their highest level in decades.

1:48.3

There are also reports of infighting within the administration about the proper response,

1:53.4

what to do, how fast to do it, what the politics look like.

1:58.0

Even Democrats have lately criticized the president's approach.

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