Immigration Update: Biden's First 100 Days

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🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Continuing our series of semi-regular immigration updates, Current Affairs' resident immigration lawyers Brianna Rennix and Oren Nimni explain the Biden administration's supposed changes in immigration policy, and what they've seen on the ground so far. This episode, like all our immigration updates, is not paywalled. This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

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0:00.0	Hello, current affairs listeners. This is Contributing Editor Eli Massey, and I am joined by
0:05.8	business manager Allegra Silcox. Hello, Allegra. We also have with us legal editor, Orne Numny. Hello,
0:12.7	no, this is contributing editor, Eli Massey.
0:15.6	What?
0:16.6	Sorry. Hi, Eli.
0:19.2	And then we also have Lieutenant Brianna Renix.
0:23.3	Is that your title?
0:24.8	Lieutenant Editor, yes.
0:26.1	Yes.
0:26.3	Okay, left tenant editor.
0:27.6	Great.
0:28.5	And we have all assembled today because we wanted to record a podcast evaluating the Biden administration's immigration policy. What's hype, what's
0:39.9	reality, what's actually happening in the courts at the border and in the cages. So I wanted to
0:46.3	start there with the cages, kids and cages. For four years under the Trump administration, we heard
0:52.2	about the horrors of kids and cages. And now we hear about Biden,
0:57.4	oh, well, you know, he's just gotten into office and what would you like him to do with the unaccompanied
1:01.6	children? Do you want them just like released into the country? That's nuts. And liberals are suddenly
1:07.2	finding nuance on this issue. And the new child jail that Biden opened is to provide
1:13.8	safer, we're told, is to provide safer detainment conditions for the kids. Biden is opening new
1:19.2	child jails because he loves and cares about the children and he wants them to be safe. So have
1:25.1	things changed around the imprisonment of children under Biden? What is his
1:29.7	administration doing? What should they be doing? Yeah. So there is some nuance to this a little bit,
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