This is the Kater Daily Podcast for Monday, September 18th,

2023. I'm Caleb Brown. For people escaping authoritarian rule, the United

States has often served as an oasis. The Biden administration

recently reinvigorated the regularly used program called parole sponsorship to help many

of those people. The effort, according to Cato's David Beer has been

revolutionary for those affected. We spoke about his new paper on the subject

last week. Before we get into the meat of this can you describe how immigration to the United States has changed over the last several

years?

The biggest change that we've seen on immigration in the last several years is that the people coming to the US-Mexico

border have shifted from being over 95% percent Mexican nationals to being from a variety of other countries.

Really started under the Obama administration, we saw an increase in Central American migration.

They ended up being the majority of the people arrested during his second term in office were for people people in El Salvador. Those four countries Mexico included really accounted for up until

that point about 99% of all illegal immigration to that point in history.

Under the Trump administration,

we started to see big increases from other countries

and then under the Biden administration we've seen a

dramatic increase in migration from outside of even the Americas, but a huge increase from South America,

mainly Venezuela, but also Brazil, Colombia, Peru, large numbers of people traveling from those countries,

as well as Cuba and Haiti,

arriving at the border illegally for the first time.

Most people don't like illegal immigration.

There are some people who also don't like much legal immigration, but for people who would

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