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Parsing Immigration Policy: Maritime Frontlines: Border Tour Highlights

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News, Politics

4.4652 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The latest episode of the Center for Immigration Studies Podcast highlights the 13th Annual Border Tour. For the first time, the tour shifted away from land borders, bringing participants to South Florida to examine America’s maritime boundaries and the unique challenges they present. Hosted with assistance from Anthony Coker, Gov. Ron DeSantis’s “immigration czar”, the […]

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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. You

0:40.3

maniac! You blow it up! Welcome to parsing immigration policy, the podcast of the Center for

0:49.6

Immigration Studies. My name is Mark McCorrie, an executive director of the center.

1:02.7

And today we're going to talk about a recent border trip that we took, staff as well as guests.

1:05.3

We do a border tour every year.

1:07.9

We've done it for, I think, 13 years now.

1:13.0

And almost always it's on the Mexican border, which is obvious, except that,

1:18.6

number one, we've done literally every stretch of the Mexican border there is, some of them multiple times. And there's just not that much happening because there's been basically a

1:24.8

restoration of control there.

1:33.8

So what we decided to do this year was go to South Florida, which you may not think of as the border, but it is a maritime border.

1:36.0

And obviously there's a lot of internal immigration issues as well.

1:41.2

And because the state works very closely with the federal government in immigration

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