It's a Numbers Game: The Numbers Behind Immigration Enforcement with Mark Krikorian

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this conversation, Ryan speaks with Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, about the recent changes in immigration enforcement by the Trump administration, the evolving stance of the Republican Party on immigration, the impact of judicial challenges on immigration policy, and proposed reforms to improve immigration control.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:07.8	Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Grodesky.
0:10.5	I'm here again.
0:11.8	Happy Monday.
0:12.7	I hope you all had a great weekend.
0:14.5	Back at it.
0:15.4	And I know it is the dead of summer.
0:17.2	So thank you for being here in talking about politics.
0:22.3	Last week was a busy week.
0:27.7	There was obviously a lot of news with Iran and Israel and it was kind of whiplash following it all.
0:36.7	It's very difficult when you're hearing international news, trying to understand who to believe, which side to get all the information from and seeing clips online.
0:38.9	Some of its AI generated, some of his old video.
0:42.4	So that's been kind of wild to watch.
0:44.5	Trump and Tucker even kind of got into it.
0:51.2	Trump called Tucker a kook on Truth Social after Tucker didn't interview Steve Bannon about Iran,
0:56.6	which I thought was something I didn't expect to happen. I don't have that many insights into the Middle East. And I'm not going to do an episode on the Israel stuff. It's just,
1:03.3	I don't have actually a lot of one deep felt opinions aside from kind of bland generic ones.
1:14.1	And there's just, it's just not, it's not not for me and it's not what I plan on this podcast on but I do have a good story about Tucker Carlson that I
1:19.7	would like to share with listeners because I think you guys would like it I did Tucker show when
1:23.8	he was on Fox like six times and when you it, because he did it out of his studio in
1:29.5	Maine, and of his house. So he wasn't, like, I was never in a room with him. I think he moved to Maine,
1:36.0	like, after the first year when there were protesters at his house in D.C. This is not hidden
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