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Parsing Immigration Policy: How a Visa for Crime Victims Became a De Facto Amnesty

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News, Politics

4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

A new episode of the Center for Immigration Studies podcast examines the U visa program, originally created by Congress in 2000 under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and explains how a narrowly tailored law-enforcement tool has evolved into a large-scale immigration benefit program, riddled with fraud and abuse. The U visa was designed to […]

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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.

0:26.6

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

0:40.3

maniac! You blow it up!

0:46.3

Welcome to parsing immigration policy, the podcast of the Center for Immigration Studies.

0:51.3

My name is Mark Brician Executive Director of the Center.

0:55.1

And we have in studio our own Jessica Vaughn who has written a piece we recently published

1:02.1

on the U visa.

1:04.0

The letter U, it's to, you know, it's the statutory provision of it that then gives its name.

1:10.3

We're almost out of alphabet letters. So if we

1:13.0

have more legislation on this, they're going to have to come up with maybe they'll use Roman

1:17.3

numerals or something. I don't know. Anyway, the UVs of those, particularly interesting. It's

1:22.0

supposed to be for victims of crime helping law enforcement. We did a show on this three years ago, but first of all,

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