The messy history of America's asylum policy

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🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

From the SS St. Louis in World War II, to President Trump's detention policies, America has a messy history when it comes to granting asylum. Professor Carl Bon Tempo explains.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.5	Meet the press.
0:04.4	Meet the press.
0:05.0	Meet the press.
0:06.9	Meet the press.
0:09.9	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press podcast.
0:12.6	While all eyes have been on photos and videos of children held in federal detention centers,
0:17.8	a lot of questions have been raised about how and why this kind of thing could happen.
0:21.2	Well, this week, we wanted to do something a tad different on 1947 and try to understand
0:25.2	the backstory on this topic.
0:27.5	How did America's asylum rules get written in the first place?
0:32.8	Do politics ever play a role in refugee policy?
0:35.4	Do politics always play a role in refugee policy?
0:37.8	We'll get to that in a minute.
0:39.3	And when was America made a choice?
0:41.4	When is America made a choice about asylum seekers that we later regretted?
0:45.4	My guest today is Dr. Carl Bon Tempo.
0:47.7	He's a professor of American history at the University of Albany.
0:51.9	And he's the author of, quote, Americans at the gate, the United States and refugees
0:57.0	during the Cold War.
0:59.5	Dr. Bon Tempo, welcome to 1947.
1:01.9	Thanks, Chuck.
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