Hi, this is Sarah, California native living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

It is eight degrees outside right now and I will not be leaving my house today.

This episode was recorded at 208 pm on Monday, January 31st.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but my friends will still be very,

very sick of me complaining about how freaking cold it is here. Okay, here's the show.

There are many things I miss about living in New England. That is not one of them.

It's definitely not. I'm the same boat and it's really something when someone from New England

is complaining about the cold. Hey there, it's the NPR politics podcast. I must my

call it. I cover the White House. And I'm Franco Ordonia. I also cover the White House.

Back when Joe Biden was running for president, he railed against Donald Trump's hard-line

immigration policies. And the first day he stepped into the Oval Office, Biden decided to

reverse some of his predecessors' most controversial immigration positions. He signed an executive

order to halt construction of the southern border wall. He lifted a travel ban that targeted

a number of predominantly Muslim countries. And he unveiled a plan to put millions of

undocumented immigrants on a path to citizenship. But a year later, that legislation has gone nowhere.

And many of the other immigration reforms Democrats wanted have also not materialized.

So to put it mildly, Democratic activists are frustrated. Today on the show, we're going to dive

into all of this. What exactly happened to Joe Biden's immigration agenda? And we are joined by

a special guest, Joel Rose, covers immigration for the network. Thank you so much for coming on

the podcast. Hey, thanks for having me. So guys, let's start with this sort of a basic question.

But what were some of the concrete things that immigration reform advocates thought that they

might have seen at this point from President Biden? I'd say that advocates were not naive.

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