Lawfare Archive: Dara Lind on Immigration and the Southern Border
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🗓️ 13 May 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
From May 7, 2021: Over its first 100 days in office, the Biden administration has faced a difficult set of policy challenges at America's southern border, ranging from new waves of individuals driven to try to cross the border by the effects of the global pandemic, to the often difficult legacy left by some of his predecessor's draconian immigration policies. As a candidate, Biden channeled Democrats' outrage with former President Trump's actions on immigration and pledged to reverse them. But now that he is in office, will Biden find more common ground with his predecessor than expected, or will he turn over a new page on America's immigration policies?
Scott R. Anderson sat down with ProPublica immigration reporter Dara Lind to discuss what drives immigration to the United States, how the Biden administration has responded thus far and what it may all mean for the future of immigration policy in the United States.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Avery Schmitz, intern at LawFair, with an episode from the LawFair Archive from |
| 0:46.6 | May 13, 2023. |
| 0:50.0 | At midnight on Thursday, the Trump era immigration policy known as Title 42 expired, removing |
| 0:56.0 | a barrier to asylum seekers that precipitated the forcible removal of some migrants over |
| 1:01.4 | concerns of COVID-19 transmission. |
| 1:04.8 | With the end of Title 42, concerns about border security and migrant well-being have received |
| 1:10.1 | increased attention as the Biden administration faces an influx of asylum seekers, at some, |
| 1:16.1 | though not all, ports of entry. |
| 1:18.7 | This renewed focus on immigration issues also raises questions about how the administration |
| 1:24.2 | will confront harmful actors such as nativist militias, constitutional sheriffs and cartels |
| 1:30.5 | among other persistent challenges along the southern border. |
| 1:34.8 | To better understand the context for these border issues, I chose an interview from the |
| 1:39.1 | LawFair Archive from May 7, 2021. |
| 1:44.0 | In this episode, Scott Anderson sat down with Dara Lind to discuss drivers of migration |
| 1:50.0 | from Central American countries, the Biden administration's early response and future |
| 1:55.3 | concerns along with the U.S.-Mexico border. |
| 2:01.0 | I'm Scott R. Anderson, and this is the LawFair podcast for May 7, 2021. |
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