Disappointing Biden Immigration Policy So Far
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🗓️ 6 January 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, January 6, 2022. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Caleb Brown. |
| 0:08.0 | As we approached the one-year mark for Joe Biden's time in office, the Cato audio team |
| 0:12.4 | took a look at Joe Biden's time in office, the Cato audio team, took a look at |
| 0:13.0 | Joe Biden's immigration policies over the past year and found them watching. |
| 0:17.8 | Cato's Alex Narasta and David Beer said that even though Donald Trump |
| 0:21.4 | radically reduced legal immigration to the US, |
| 0:24.4 | Joe Biden hasn't done much to change it. We are just about a year into the |
| 0:29.8 | presidency of Joe Biden. He made some promises relating to immigration that were |
| 0:37.5 | strikingly different from his predecessor, Donald Trump. So how's he done and specifically with respect to his remain in Mexico policy |
| 0:47.2 | you know what has really changed I'm joined by Alex Narasta who directs immigration policy studies here at the Cato Institute and David Bier, who is a research fellow at the Cato Institute, talk about this first almost full year of the Biden presidency. So Dave, I want to start with you. |
| 1:07.9 | You know, a year ago you wrote a couple of op-eds, just sort of encouraging the Biden administration to go big |
| 1:16.4 | when it comes to deregulating immigration to the United States for a variety of reasons. Broadly speaking, what were your recommendations? |
| 1:26.7 | Well, they were numerous, but primarily focused on expanding access and legal immigration. |
| 1:34.7 | That's the main driver of illegal immigration. Legal immigration is a benefit to the country and our proposals |
| 1:40.8 | laid out a variety of ways in which we can both increase legal immigration, |
| 1:45.5 | allow more people to immigrate, and then get the most out of immigration and immigrants |
| 1:51.2 | when they're here so they can work and we're not having people on welfare. |
| 1:56.4 | And so really those proposals largely have not been carried out by this administration. |
| 2:05.0 | We have seen some rollbacks of what the Trump administration has done, |
| 2:11.0 | but very marginal. The shift has not been dramatic, and in general, the |
| 2:18.7 | administration has tried to move as slow and as limited as possible on legal immigration and |
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