November 29, 2023: Congress and the White House butt heads on immigration
The Playbook Podcast
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🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Presented by Google. |
| 0:06.1 | Good morning, everyone. I'm Playbill co-author Ryan Lizza. It's Wednesday, November 29th. |
| 0:11.7 | We are watching three big things in Congress this morning. First, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will deliver a major speech on anti-Semitism around 10 a.m. |
| 0:22.4 | Second, a vote on kicking Representative George Santos out of Congress could come as early as today, |
| 0:29.4 | and no later than tomorrow. That's because on Tuesday, two resolutions to expel the New York |
| 0:34.4 | congressmen were introduced, and House rules require they be acted on |
| 0:38.0 | within two legislative days. Finally, talks over the Ukraine-Aid supplemental, which are now wrapped up |
| 0:44.4 | in immigration policy, have hit a rough patch. Joining us now to discuss how Congress and the White |
| 0:50.5 | House are approaching the negotiations over border security is White House reporter Maya Ward. |
| 0:56.4 | Good morning, Maya. |
| 0:58.2 | Good morning. |
| 0:59.3 | Maya, let's start with the basics. |
| 1:01.7 | What's the latest with these negotiations? |
| 1:04.9 | Yeah, so really right now narrowed down to three things on the table. |
| 1:09.6 | So number one would be asylum reform, |
| 1:12.4 | specifically a change to the credible fear standard, which in simple terms means that it could |
| 1:17.7 | in theory mean fewer migrants being denied the opportunity to apply for asylum in the first |
| 1:23.4 | place. Second thing that is being raised in conversations is a safe third country restriction, |
| 1:29.5 | which would prevent people who have passed through Mexico from seeking asylum. And third, |
| 1:36.0 | changes to the country's parole system, which allows the president to use, at his discretion, |
| 1:41.5 | on a case-by-case basis, this authority for humanitarian reasons. |
| 1:46.1 | So remember, we saw, you know, Biden do this multiple times with limits for Cubans, |
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