Biden's immigration shuffle

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Vox Senior Correspondent German Lopez joins Matt and Dara to discuss some of the motivations, obstacles, and oppositions to the Biden administration's early signals on immigration policy, as well as a white paper on a natural experiment in the effects of a reduction in the number of police staff on crime. Resources: "Biden's sweeping immigration bill, explained" by Nicole Narea, Vox (Jan. 20, 2021) "Biden's flurry of first-day executive actions, explained" by German Lopez, Vox (Jan. 20, 2021) UPDATE: "A Texas judge just blocked Biden's 100-day pause on deportations" by Nicole Narea, Vox (Jan. 26, 2021) White paper Hosts: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Slowboring.com Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration Reporter, ProPublica German Lopez (@germanrlopez), Senior Correspondent, Vox Credits: Erikk Geannikis, Editor and Producer As the Biden administration gears up, we'll help you understand this unprecedented burst of policymaking. Sign up for The Weeds newsletter each Friday: vox.com/weeds-newsletter. The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production. Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:08.6	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm
1:26.1	Matthew Glacias here with ProPublica's Dara Lind and Hermann Lopez from Vox.com. I'm
1:32.6	really glad to have you here, Hermann. I wanted to talk this week about Biden's early rollout
1:39.4	of immigration ideas, which has included both a official legislative proposal, which
1:47.2	is interesting in its own terms and also a big batch of early administrative actions,
1:55.0	executive orders, things like that. I know, Dara, you are annoyed by my desire to talk
2:00.7	about this proposed legislation. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Well, so when you first
2:04.2	proposed this, like, when the bill got rolled out on Wednesday or when they announced the
2:09.6	bill on Wednesday, the actual text of the bill is not been introduced yet, which is funny
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