Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 15 February 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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President Trump has called for an overhaul of immigration that replaces a family-based system with a merit-based one. But what counts as merit? We also report on the shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., in which at least 17 people died. It was the 18th school shooting in the United States this year. Guests: Caitlin Dickerson, a national immigration reporter for The New York Times; Catherine Porter, Canada bureau chief for The Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times on Michael Barbaro, this is the Daily.
0:09.2	Today, President Trump is calling for an overhaul of the U.S. immigration system
0:15.0	to replace family-based migration with merit-based migration.
0:20.0	But what counts as merit?
0:23.0	And the school shooting in Florida.
0:30.0	It's Thursday, February 15th.
0:38.0	It's now Wednesday morning of the week, the Senate set aside to debate DACA,
0:45.0	border security, interior enforcement, and other immigration issues.
0:53.0	Caitlin, what's been going on in the Senate this week?
0:57.0	The Senate has taken this really unusual step of engaging in a kind of
1:03.0	unmitigated hashing out of all things immigration.
1:06.0	Caitlin Dickerson covers immigration for the times.
1:09.0	And that's because in order to convince Democrats to reopen the government
1:13.0	last month, Mitch McConnell agreed to an open debate, so that's what they're doing.
1:17.0	I promised I would clear the way to debate these matters this week, and I have.
1:22.0	I promised I would ensure a fair amendment process in which both sides could offer
1:28.0	legislation for discussion and votes, and I have.
1:32.0	Everyone should be focused on finding a bill to protect the dreamers and address
1:37.0	border security that can get 60 votes. That's the ball game.
1:41.0	The goal is to build a new immigration policy from scratch, so something that deals
1:46.0	with dreamers, but also if the Republicans get their way, the deal would involve
1:51.0	a lot more than that. It could, in fact, overhaul our entire immigration system.
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