On the Ballot: An Immigration System Most Americans Never Wanted

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

If Donald J. Trump wins next week’s election, it will be in large part because voters embraced his message that the U.S. immigration system is broken. David Leonhardt, a senior writer at The New York Times, tells the surprising story of how that system came to be. Guest: David Leonhardt, a senior writer at The New York Times who runs The Morning.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. This is the Daily.
0:07.0	If Donald Trump wins next week's election, it will be in large part because voters embrace his message that the country's immigration system is broken
0:19.2	Today
0:20.7	David Leenhart on the surprising story of how that system came to be, the very real trade-offs
0:28.9	it's required, and just how little it reflects what Americans really want from immigration.
0:37.0	It's Tuesday, October 29th.
0:50.0	Hi, David.
0:51.0	Hi, David.
0:52.0	Hello Michael.
0:53.0	It's really nice to have you in the studio.
0:54.0	I don't think we've ever done this in person before.
0:56.0	I have never been in the studio.
0:57.0	I've always been remote in Washington.
0:58.0	It is great to be here.
1:00.0	Overdo.
1:01.0	So David, we're talking to you today because you have been studying an issue
1:05.1	that voters in this campaign for president consistently rank among
1:09.8	their top concerns and that is immigration. And yet you contend that the way we talk about
1:16.3	this issue, the way we understand it, is very incomplete and that we tend to think
1:21.3	about it in far too narrow,
1:23.0	a light as a question of what's happening at the US-Mexico border
1:27.6	when there's so much more to the subject of immigration.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The New York Times, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The New York Times and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.