Optimism on Immigration Reform

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🗓️ 1 February 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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From where does the U.S. receive refugees and why does that matter? And why be optimistic about prospects for immigration reform? Tim Kane of the Hoover Institution comments.

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0:00.0	This is the Cato Dilly Podcast for Wednesday, February 1st, 2017.
0:06.4	I'm Caleb Brown.
0:07.6	At a time when the status of immigrants is in flux following executive orders from the
0:11.7	White House, why be optimistic about the possibility
0:15.1	of market-friendly immigration reform?
0:17.8	Tim Kane is an economist at the Hoover Institution.
0:20.2	He's optimistic.
0:21.5	We spoke yesterday.
0:26.0	When I speak with David Beer, one of our immigration policy people here at the Cato Institute,
0:31.0	he is relative to last year more optimistic about immigration
0:39.0	reform and perhaps that is because last year the odds were zero that it was going to happen.
0:48.0	And this year the odds are greater than zero.
0:51.0	Yeah.
0:52.0	So why are you optimistic? You know there's a great reason to
0:56.8	be optimistic about immigration reform in 2017 and the reason is Donald Trump
1:01.1	even if he's not doing things that you or I or any of our
1:05.1	listeners think are great, the fact is he's a man of action and we've all got to
1:10.3	be honest the politicians in Washington. for about two decades have not wanted
1:15.3	to be active on this.
1:17.0	They wanted to be very political with it.
1:19.2	It's been a hot potato.
1:21.3	Had a debate with Congresswoman Zow Lofgren recently and she was saying, well, you know,
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