Did Biden Do a Good Immigration Thing?

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🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week: good immigration news! The Biden administration announced on June 17th that it will be moving forward with a plan to offer a pathway to citizenship for immigrants married to U.S. citizens who have been in the country for more than 10 years through a special “parole-in-place” program. Why does current U.S. immigration law make it so difficult--and sometimes impossible--for so many people who are in loving long-term relationships with U.S. citizens to “do it the right way?” Matt breaks down the legal and historical context of the most important executive action on immigration policy since Barack Obama created the DACA program in 2012. We then speak with Emily, a U.S. citizen whose husband stands to directly benefit from this policy, for a firsthand account of the realities of living in immigration limbo.

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0:00.0	I hate the Supreme Court! the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint.
0:23.0	This is not a First Amendment thing.
0:26.0	I printed out a sign especially for him using his favorite font, Geramand.
0:30.0	Who has a favorite font? I read on the internet that it's not against the law for me to go to the bathroom while the
0:37.0	Fest and seatbelt sign is on, so...
0:39.0	Seatbelt sign is on.
0:40.0	But is it against the law though. Hello and welcome to opening arguments.
0:46.0	This is episode one thousand forty three.
0:48.0	I'm Eros Thomas Smith.
0:49.0	And that over there is Matt Cameron.
0:51.0	Due to scheduling stuff and me being on a trip. It's been a minute.
0:54.8	How's it going Matt? Yeah, good to hear from you and I am doing fantastic because this is one of those
0:59.0	rare weeks where we have good immigration news. I don't believe it. I'll believe it when I know I've seen the headlines and a lot of people of course on the thread want to hear this explain myself included so yeah I'm I'm excited for some potential good news.
1:13.3	We gotta take that good news where we can get it.
1:15.8	For sure.
1:16.8	And we're also going to talk to someone who's going to be directly affected,
1:19.4	which is something I always want to do for good news like this,
1:21.6	so we can find out how much it really
1:23.0	matters to at least one person absolutely and gosh there's so much to talk about
1:26.7	Matt I think we're also snagging Matt back for Monday's episode because the other
1:31.6	thing that has been on the top of the list of what everyone wants to hear about is this young thug trial and the contempt stuff.
1:39.0	You know, so we're also going to be covering that on Monday, I think, right?
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