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I'm Michael Baranowski, a professor of political science at Northern

Kentucky University. And before we get today's show, I just want to quickly thank everyone who's

given me updates on the availability of my new podcast, Politics Makes Me Sick, on their podcast

app. It's now on Apple Podcasts, and so that generally means that wherever you get podcast,

it should either be available to you

soon or available right away. And also, I wanted to let folks know some people were asking,

does that mean you are going to be quitting the politics guys or changing anything? Absolutely not.

This is an in addition to, as opposed to, instead of sort of thing, just basically because

I wanted to see if I could do kind of a one person, abbreviated version of the politics guys designed,

well, particularly for people who aren't necessarily huge political junkies, but still want to know

kind of what's going on. Today, in episode eight of our election

2020 series, we'll be discussing Donald Trump and Joe Biden on immigration and citizenship.

Immigration was one of the key issues Donald Trump campaign down in 2016, and as president,

he's worked awfully hard to keep his immigration-related campaign promises.

There have been over 400 executive actions on immigration during the Trump administration,

and during President Trump's time in office, and this is prior to the pandemic,

which changed just about everything, annual net migration into the United States

has fallen almost by half to around 600,000 people per year.

So we'll start our discussion today with the border wall, which certainly was a big part of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and something he and his core supporters seem to believe in quite a lot.

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