Parsing Immigration Policy: What You Should Know about the DHS Shutdown
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
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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're a maniac. |
| 0:42.4 | You blow it up. |
| 0:46.1 | Welcome to parsing immigration policy, the podcast of the Center for Immigration Studies. |
| 0:51.0 | My name is Mark McCorre, an executive director of the center. |
| 0:55.1 | And today we're doing something a little different. It's more of a politics, sort of Washington Circus show rather than on |
| 1:02.1 | policy issues. But this is important because of the government shutdown, or at least the |
| 1:09.0 | shutdown of DHS, because the Democrats have refused to approve |
| 1:13.1 | funding for it. And we're recording this a couple days before it's going to be posted, |
| 1:19.4 | but there's very little chance that this will be out of date by the time you hear this podcast |
| 1:25.5 | because this shutdown is likely to last, at least |
| 1:28.7 | through this week because Congress isn't even here, and who knows how long it'll last |
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