Caitlin Dickerson on the Future of US Immigration Policy

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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If elected to a second term Donald Trump has promised to carry out “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history” in addition to other harsh approaches to immigration. President Joe Biden, who has long been criticized for continuing many Trump era immigration policies, now faces increasing pressure from both parties to step up enforcement as a record number of migrants are crossing the southern border. We talk with The Atlantic reporter Caitlin Dickerson, who won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for her immigration reporting, about global migration pressures and the future of US policy. Guests: Caitlin Dickerson, staff writer, The Atlantic; winner, 2023 Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on immigration Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal. The U.S. immigration system has been broken for as long as I can remember.
1:05.0	But it was Donald Trump's candidacy and presidency that made hardline immigration policy central to the Republican Party.
1:12.5	Meanwhile, turmoil in Central America and other countries have sent tens of thousands of asylum seekers
1:17.5	northward. Our country's economic system continues to invite immigration while parts of our
1:22.7	politics are swinging away from supporting new arrivals. It's both a familiar American paradox and one charged up by Trump's new promise to carry
1:31.6	out the biggest domestic deportation operation ever.
1:35.0	We talked with Pulitzer Prize-winning immigration reporter Caitlin Dickerson about the system
1:38.8	and the immigrants' continent.
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1:56.6	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. No president has or maybe even could fix the problems with our modern immigration system.
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