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Parsing Immigration Policy: Immigration Newsmaker Podcast: A Conversation with Andrew Veprek

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Politics, News

4.4652 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

At a recent Immigration Newsmaker hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies, Andrew Veprek, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), described a complete reorientation of the bureau, shifting it from a humanitarian assistance agency toward implementing U.S. enforcement and return priorities. The discussion offered a look at how […]

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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. We come from France.

0:21.6

And I am, you know, adamantly again, illegal immigrant.

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.

0:40.0

You maniac!

0:42.4

You blow it up!

0:46.0

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

0:51.0

My name is Mark Krikori, an executive director of the center.

0:56.0

And this week for the podcast, we're going to have the part of the newsmaker interview I did with Andrew V. Preck, who is

1:03.8

Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. And it sounds kind of wonky, but it's actually one of the two bureaus within the State

1:15.9

Department that is mainly responsible for immigration-related work.

1:22.3

The other one being the consular service, which does the visas and everything.

1:26.5

And they obviously work together in tandem,

1:29.3

but PRM, as it's known for short, deals with refugee issues, but also kind of global migration

1:35.6

policy and refugee policy. So it's an interesting interview, actually. And the whole video of the interview, including the Q&A, will be on our website at cIS.org.

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