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On Immigration, the Contrast Between Trump and Biden is Stark

KQED's Forum

KQED

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump has made restricting immigration a central component of his administration and campaign messaging. On the other side, former Vice President Joe Biden has promised to reverse some of Trump’s policies, such as family separation, setting up a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, and to establish a “fair and humane” immigration system. With the election approaching next week, we’ll discuss each candidates’ policy positions on one of the nation’s most divisive issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to Forum. I'm Mina Kim in for Michael Krasny.

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President Donald Trump has made restricting immigration a central component of his administration and campaign messaging.

1:14.4

On the other side, former Vice President Joe Biden has promised to reverse Trump's family separation policy,

1:20.7

set up a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, and establish a fair and humane immigration system.

1:27.5

With the election approaching next week, we'll discuss each candidate's policy positions

1:31.4

in one of the nation's most divisive issues.

1:35.1

Here with us is Tykei Hendrick, senior editor covering immigration for KQED.

1:39.9

Taiki, thanks so much for joining us.

1:42.2

My pleasure, Mina.

1:43.5

So first, just start us out by explaining the core differences between the two men's positions.

1:50.5

Absolutely. Yeah, I think it is really striking that immigration has not been a central focus so much in this election campaign when it really was a signature issue in Trump's

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