Trump's Dubious Success at Cracking Down on Immigrants

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Whether you like it or not, Donald Trump has has broad success at limiting immigration flows into the United States. In doing so, economic costs are likely to follow. David Bier comments.

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0:00.0	This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, October 30th, 2020. I'm Caleb Brown.
0:06.0	Whether you like the President's anti-immigration push from the harsh rhetoric aimed at immigrants,
0:11.0	the beginnings of a costly border wall to the myriad ways the Trump administration
0:15.3	has made it harder for workers and family members to come to the United States, it seems
0:20.4	the president has largely been successful in this goal to reduce migration to the United States.
0:26.7	David Beer is an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute.
0:30.3	We spoke this week.
0:31.7	The president has over his time in office obviously he pledged to build a wall
0:37.5	He pledged to suspend a lot of legal immigration until we figure out what's going on to quote him from the campaign
0:46.6	trail.
0:47.6	And it seems like aside from urging Congress to help him, he has gone about reinterpreting rules and issuing rules that adjust the ways that the executive branch of the federal government does immigration.
1:09.0	What have been the most impactful changes that the president has made unilaterally with respect to immigration.
1:17.0	Well since the start of this pandemic, the president has used his executive authority to ban most legal immigrants from coming to the United States.
1:25.8	If you're not either the spouse or child of a U.S. citizen, you are not eligible to immigrate under the current system that the
1:39.2	Trump administration has created. And so the result of that has been the largest reduction in
1:46.5	legal immigration in American history. From the first half of fiscal year
1:52.0	2020, which started in October of 2019 to the second
1:56.9	half of FY 2020 so from April to September of this year, there was a 92% reduction in legal immigration from abroad.
2:09.7	So this is legal permanent residents who mainly are sponsored by US family members.
2:16.2	So the groups that are targeted are parents of US citizens, spouses and the minor children of legal permanent residents of the United States,
2:26.0	as well as adult children of legal permanent residents and U.S. citizens.
2:31.0	Those are the main groups that have just absolutely been decimated by the President's
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