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Today, Explained

Our immigration identity crisis

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.4 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Americans hold contradictory views on immigration: They’re more supportive of it than ever before, while also calling it the nation’s most divisive political issue. A pollster, a policy researcher, and a pundit help make sense of our stalled immigration debate. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Remember just a few days ago when for the first time ever a United States president got

0:05.2

convicted of a felony of 34 felonies? The first thing he said was of course the

0:11.2

whole trial was rigged. I'm a very innocent man.

0:14.0

But the second thing he said was...

0:16.0

Our country's gone to hell.

0:19.0

He was weirdly talking all of a sudden about immigration.

0:22.0

Millions and millions of people pouring into our country right now from prisons and from

0:28.6

mental institutions, terrorists.

0:31.0

The next day he spoke about his guilty verdicts again. This time immigration was the first thing he wanted to talk about.

0:36.5

When you look at our country what's happening where millions and millions of people are flowing in from all parts of the world, not just South America,

0:45.2

from Africa, from Asia, from the Middle East.

0:47.7

It's an election year and the leading Republican candidate, maybe the leading candidate

0:51.9

period, wants to make it all about immigration.

0:55.0

So we're going to talk about our options on today explained.

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