Crafting a Bipartisan Miracle with Chris Murphy

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Comprehensive border and immigration reform has eluded policymakers in the U.S. for decades. As global turmoil and conflict grows, questions and concerns still remain about the economic, security, and humanitarian justification and rationale for immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees seeking entry into the U.S. Vitriolic rhetoric, which has largely impeded meaningful progress, has only intensified in the months leading up to one of the most consequential elections in history. In the midst of all of this, somewhat of a miracle has materialized: bipartisan collaboration. Our guest this week served as the chief negotiator of a border bill that was negotiated between Senate Democrats and Senate Republicans. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy is the junior U.S. Senator for Connecticut and is a member of the Foreign Relations Committee. He joins WITHpod to discuss what has historically hindered a significant revamp of American immigration policy, how he was able to help broker conservative partnership, his concerns about “unaccountable elites, the fall of American neoliberalism and more.

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0:00.0	I think our inability to sort of talk thoughtfully about water security I think has provided an opening for Republicans, an opening that we don't need to give them.
0:16.1	So that I think is what's happened over the course of the last six months is that we've begun to take seriously the rules and that combined with our belief that immigrants
0:25.8	are an important part of our country all of a sudden makes a lot more people
0:29.8	take us seriously on the broader issue of immigration of border security.
0:33.0	Hello and welcome to why is this happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes. One of the only things Republicans like to talk about policy-wise is the border and immigration.
0:51.6	It's really, it's striking, like once you get out past that,
0:55.1	there's this enormous drop-off
0:56.6	in any kind of substantive contentions
0:58.4	they're making or issues they're pointing to.
1:00.9	It's like their safety blanket policy wise like here's a
1:03.5	and and I will say this unlike a lot of the other stuff which is complete
1:07.3	nonsense or like really fabricated like it at least is
1:11.6	recognizably politics.
1:13.2	Like they're basically saying here's an issue, a problem,
1:16.4	and we have a solution for it,
1:18.8	which is at least recognizably politics
1:20.5	as opposed to like everything they're doing,
1:22.3	Trump is doing on like political
1:23.5	economy or like tariffs is just like invented nonsense basically like it doesn't it's
1:29.1	not even legible as recognizably politics and it's also the case that like Republicans and
1:35.2	Donald Trump have had a huge advantage on the issue of immigration. That advantage I
1:39.2	think is closed a bit. Democrats have been sort of on the defensive about it and a huge part of the debate
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