It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. The Immigration News just

keeps on coming. Late yesterday, another federal judge declared President Obama's DACA program

unconstitutional. DACA, as many of you know, but some of you don't, is an acronym for

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. It's the policy under which people brought here,

undocumented as children, who basically grew up as Americans, you know, for whom this is

functionally their country of origin, wouldn't be deported. The latest ruling still protects

those who already have DACA status, but prevents others from being given it, this seems

headed to the Supreme Court. And new Census Bureau numbers show the number and percentage

of immigrants in the U.S. has been recovering in the Biden years after being greatly reduced

as a centerpiece policy of President Trump. The percentage of foreign-born people living

in this country had dipped to around 12 percent under Trump. It's back up close to 14 percent

now. The record percentage, by the way, was about 15 percent in the 1890 Census according

to the Migration Policy Institute. Locally, the percentage of foreign-born people living

in New York City is around 35 percent. The record was around 1910 when more than 40 percent

were foreign-born in the city according to stats published by Hofstra University. Then,

of course, there's the asylum seeker in flux and policy debate making headlines every

day in various ways. Governor Phil Murphy, for example, says New Jersey is a pro-immigrant

state, but he's rejecting a federally proposed shelter at the Atlantic City Airport. If

the governor were to say yes, that would help New York City with what Mayor Adams and public

advocates of money, Williams, are calling a decompression strategy. Here's an exchange

I had here with the public advocate about that on last Friday's show.

We absolutely need the help. Not just money. Money is a part of it. The Biden White House

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