Hello relatable listeners. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for being here.

Today we are going to talk about a hot topic. We're going to talk about immigration. Of course,

that includes illegal immigration, but as we have done with all of these episodes,

I really want to give you the basics. I want to lay a good foundation of this topic of immigration

by telling you a little bit about our immigration system, the problems with our immigration system,

what's going on with the legal immigration, part of why that happens in some solutions that have

been offered to fix our immigration system. You have probably heard several times from both

Democrats and Republicans that our immigration system is broken. Now, both sides kind of have

different perspectives and different definitions of what that brokenness actually is and how to fix it,

but there's pretty much a consensus that our immigration system, as it is right now, is not working.

And I don't know about you, but I've been wondering for a while, what do people mean? What do people

mean when they say that our immigration system is broken? So I dug into that to see what people

are talking about when they talk about this brokenness. But I kind of want to back up, of course,

and give us a little bit of context. As I always do, you've heard Donald Trump talk about the wall,

you've been hearing rhetoric lately in the past couple of years about kids and cages, but this

debate really has been happening for several decades, almost every president, Republican Democrats,

since at least at the very least, the 1980s, has something to say or has had something to say about

illegal immigration and how it needs to be solved. Yes, even Barack Obama, 2009, and then I think,

again, is recently as 2013, I've seen a clip circulate stating that we need to rein in a

legal immigration. We need to figure it out. We need to make sure that this isn't happening at

the rampant levels that it is happening right now. A lot of Democrats actually called Barack Obama

the deporter in chief. Now they kind of said this under their breaths, this wasn't like a nickname

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