Immigration Nation: A Crisis of Our Own Design.
Unf*cking The Republic
UNFTR Media
4.9 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
As Ukrainians flee the war in their home country, some have found their way to the U.S. southern border where they are immediately escorted into the country. Because they're seeking refuge from a dangerous conflict and seeking asylum in the land of the free. And they're getting in. Quickly. Through Mexico. Meanwhile... you can probably guess where this is headed. Anyhoo, today's episode looks at immigration policy in the United States and fingers (ew) the real bad guy in our story that crafted today's anti-immigrant narrative and passed three meaningful pieces of legislation that made it a crime to be a non-native born American.
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:13
Chapter One: 00:05:52
Chapter Two: 00:11:11
Chapter Three: 00:16:43
Chapter Four: 00:23:25
Chapter Five: 00:29:20
Post Show Musings: 00:34:18
Outro: 00:46:28
Resources
BBC News: How many Ukrainians have fled their homes and where have they gone?
The Intercept: As Immigration Plummeted, Conservatives Falsely Accused Biden of Fueling a Crisis
OECD Statistics: Net Migration
National Immigration Law Center: Overview of Immigrant Eligibility for Federal Programs
Marketplace: Undocumented immigrants quietly pay billions into Social Security and receive no benefits
Congress.gov: H.R.3355 - Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
Legal Information Institute: Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act
The Atlantic: Bill Clinton Owes My Father an Apology
Pew Research Center: Most Cuban American voters identify as Republican in 2020
Pew Research Center: The Hispanic Vote in Presidential Elections,
1980-2012
International Policy Digest: U.S. Agriculture is in Crisis
The New York Times: Fleeing War in Ukraine, They’re Met With Employers Offering Paychecks
Schoolhouse Rock: The Great American Melting Pot
Book Love
Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States
UNFTR Episode Resources
The American Propaganda Machine.
Libertarians Are Exhausting Part 1.
Libertarians Are Exhausting Part 2.
Fox in the Outhouse: Invasion, Immigration & Inflation.
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| 0:00.0 | And Fucking the Republic is brought to you by insane level sponsors, |
| 0:03.2 | W. Jeremy D., Eric Wagner 101, Rob Nasby, Asoke, |
| 0:08.0 | Nick G., Cassie LMM, and the Worry Clan, and Nathan Second. |
| 0:13.0 | Do you think the children of illegal aliens should be allowed to attend Texas public schools free? |
| 0:18.0 | Or do you think that their parents should pay for their education? |
| 0:22.6 | Who are you addressing that to? I think you're first in this. |
| 0:24.6 | He was looking right at you. |
| 0:25.6 | I said he was. |
| 0:27.6 | Look, I'd like to see something done about the illegal alien problem that would be so sensitive and so understanding about labor needs and human needs that that problem wouldn't come up. |
| 0:39.6 | But today, if those people are here, I would reluctantly say, I think they would get whatever |
| 0:46.1 | it is that they're, you know, what the society is giving to their neighbors. |
| 0:51.0 | But it has, the problem has to be solved. |
| 0:53.5 | The problem has to be solved. Because |
| 0:55.9 | as we have kind of made illegal, some kinds of labor that I'd like to see legal, we're doing |
| 1:02.8 | two things. We're creating a whole society of really honorable, decent, family loving people |
| 1:08.6 | that are in violation of the law, and secondly, we're exacerbating |
| 1:11.8 | relations with Mexico. The answer to your question is much more fundamental than whether they |
| 1:17.8 | attend Houston schools, it seems to me. I don't want to see a whole, if they're living here, |
| 1:22.2 | I don't want to see a whole, I think of six- and eight-year-old kids being made, you know, one totally uneducated and made to feel that they're living with outside the law, let's address ourselves to the fundamentals. |
| 1:35.2 | These are good people, strong people. Part of my family is a Mexican. |
| 1:41.9 | And I added to that, I think the time has come that the United States and our neighbors, particularly our neighbor to the South, should have a better understanding and a better relationship than we've ever had. |
| 1:52.9 | And I think that we haven't been sensitive enough to our size and our power. They have a problem of 40 to 50 percent unemployment. |
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