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And it's not safe for work. Today we're going to talk about American immigration policy.

We're going to talk about what it used to be and what it is now and why it is what it is now and why it's broken and why Republicans have sabotaged nearly every proposal to fix it ever, ever, ever.

So it's a simple subject.

It shouldn't take more than five or ten minutes to cover it.

Boom, boom, boom, we're in and out.

Eleven minutes tops.

Yeah.

We'll have it fixed.

This is easy.

Just listen to this on the toilet, really.

It's that quick.

Seriously, folks.

Let's begin at the very last moment in our history when there was a possibility that our broken immigration system might actually get fixed.

From a 2014 NBC News article entitled, quote,

Why Immigration Reform Died in Congress, unquote.

Subtitle, Republicans saw no short-term benefit to working together on an immigration overhaul. The article briefly chronicles

the history of failed immigration reform attempts since 2005-2006, when no matter who controlled which

branch of government, there was always enough opposition from somewhere to prevent anything from

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