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Parsing Immigration Policy: Forcing Environmental Analysis of Policies That Increase Immigration

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News, Politics

4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

A new episode of the Center for Immigration Studies podcast features Director of Litigation Julie Axelrod discussing the current status of the Center’s landmark National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) lawsuit, a new CIS case filed in Texas, and the recent “Alligator Alcatraz” litigation. Axelrod explains how the Trump administration is handling the remedy phase of […]

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0:00.0

We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States, undetected, undocumented, unchecked,

0:10.0

and complete the dang fence.

0:13.0

This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill.

0:18.0

Can't stone your bucket where you are.

0:20.0

We come from France.

0:21.6

And I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.

0:25.6

They're coming in by the thousands.

0:27.6

Just unbelievable.

0:28.6

A wall is an immorality.

0:30.6

Who are you rooting for it?

0:32.6

Those masters of the universe are added again.

0:36.6

They're not sending their best. You maniac! You blow it up!

0:45.9

Welcome to parsing immigration policy, the podcast of the Center for Immigration Studies. My name is Mark

0:51.5

Kirkorian, executive director of the center. This time we're going to be

0:55.2

getting an update and talking about a new lawsuit that the center is involved in based on the

1:03.9

National Environmental Policy Act, NEPA, which is an important tool in trying to prevent the kind of lawless opening of the border

1:18.1

that we saw under the Biden administration. And the center won the first ever case based on

1:25.3

NEPA against immigration actions. This is something that we're going to get

1:30.6

an update on from our director of litigation, Julie Axelrod, but also on a new lawsuit we filed and

1:37.6

sort of what is the context of NEPA and immigration. And in fact, there's been a development in that regard we're going to

1:45.9

talk about that the center is not involved in an unfortunate development. So, Julie, thanks for

1:51.4

coming in. And I'm not sure where we want to start. Maybe just start with what's the news

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