How Biden Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration

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🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A New York Times review of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s actions on immigration showed that decisions he and his closest advisers made created an opening for a more aggressive Trump administration agenda. Christopher Flavelle, who interviewed more than 30 former Biden administration officials who worked on immigration and border policy, explains how Mr. Biden fumbled the immigration issue, and what the Democratic Party can learn from his missteps.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Kittrow F. This is the Daily.
0:09.0	Over the weekend, there were two deadly shootings on opposite sides of the globe.
0:15.1	In Australia, at least 15 people were killed on Sunday when two gunmen fired on a crowd that was celebrating the start of Hanukkah on a beach in Sydney.
0:25.5	This is a targeted attack on Jewish Australians on the first day of Hanukkah, which should be a day of joy.
0:35.1	The authorities described the shooting as an act of terrorism and said it was carried out by a father and son.
0:41.8	An attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Australian.
0:46.7	It was the latest in a series of anti-Semitic attacks across Australia.
0:51.7	And in the hours after Saturday's shooting, several Jewish leaders said
0:55.7	their warnings about escalating violence had been ignored.
1:00.7	Among the victims was a Holocaust survivor who died shielding his wife from gunfire, and a rabbi
1:07.3	who organized the event.
1:10.7	Meanwhile...
1:11.5	Today is a day that the city of Providence
1:13.4	and the state of Rhode Island parade would never come.
1:15.8	In Providence, Rhode Island,
1:17.3	a gunman burst into a classroom
1:19.2	at Brown University on Saturday
1:20.9	and started shooting,
1:22.8	killing two people and injuring nine.
1:26.0	Police are still searching for the suspect. The shooting contained
1:30.8	a particularly American wrinkle. For at least two brown students, it was their second school
1:37.1	shooting. It's surreal, you know, already having to have done this once. This is the second time.
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