How The "BIg, Beautiful Bill" Would Change Immigration Policy

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🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

From allocating more money to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico, to changing provisions on what public services legal immigrants can use, the budget reconciliation bill working its way through Congress would change federal immigration policy in a number of ways. We take a look.

This podcast: White House correspondent Deepa Shivaram, immigration policy reporter Ximena Bustillo, and senior national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

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1:01.2	I'm Deepa Shiverum. I cover the White House.
1:03.1	I'm Hemanabustio, and I cover immigration policy.
1:05.7	And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent.
1:09.2	And today on the show, we're going to take a look at what the current reconciliation
1:12.9	bill that's working its way through Congress would change for legal immigrants.
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