PREVIEW - The Friday Edition: Yes, Biden really did make a mess of immigration.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In today's Friday edition, Executive Editor Isaac Saul makes the argument that President Biden is largely responsible for the historic surge in illegal immigration during his term. He goes over some of the policies that created the problem such signaling a more relaxed immigration stance, undoing effective Trump-era policies, and dramatically expanding parole programs through executive action. He discusses some factors that were outside Biden's control like post-pandemic labor demand and congressional failures. Finally, Isaac concludes with some thoughts about achieving a sustainable, humane immigration system — a lesson Democrats must now confront.
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| 0:35.2 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:44.8 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 1:00.4 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're doing something a little different. |
| 1:05.1 | It's a special Friday edition, and I'm here to make the case that, yes, President Biden really did make a mess of immigration. |
| 1:15.0 | It's just me today, so I'm just going to jump right in and get started. |
| 1:27.1 | It is a political truism that every party's excesses tend to come back around in ways they don't expect and often don't want. |
| 1:36.2 | For instance, conservatives opposed the Biden administration's executive accesses when he pursued policies they did not support, like using an irrelevant emergency |
| 1:45.9 | law to justify directing the executive branch to forgive student loans. To push back, conservatives |
| 1:51.6 | sued the Biden administration, saying they violated a legal theory known as the major questions |
| 1:56.5 | doctrine. The Supreme Court agreed, saying the doctrine constrained Biden from implementing |
| 2:01.5 | programs without congressional approval. Now, that same legal theory could be the thing that |
| 2:07.1 | undoes much of the Trump administration's executive overreach. During the Biden administration, |
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