Ukrainian Refugees Could Convince Biden To End Pandemic Asylum Restrictions

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🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

For more than a year, immigration activists have been frustrated that the White House has used the pandemic as a reason to turn away hundreds of thousands of migrants before they can make a request for asylum in the United States.

Now, pressure created by the three million Ukrainian refugees could create enough political pressure to force Biden to revisit the policy.

This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, and correspondent Joel Rose.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, this is Sarah calling from Vermont.
0:03.5	I'm sitting in my middle school math classroom right now,
0:06.7	enjoying the fact that today is the first day we've been mask optional.
0:11.3	I just finished teaching sixth grade and I was so happy to see all my students smiling faces.
0:16.8	This podcast was recorded at 11.33am on Thursday March 17th.
0:24.0	Things may have changed by the time you hear it.
0:26.2	Okay, enjoy the show.
0:31.2	I love that my kids just or my son just got to go to school without his mask on
0:36.8	and he was pumped and his sister is very jealous.
0:40.1	Oh, I know there's a totally different world.
0:42.6	I feel like when teachers can see kids' faces and the kids can see the teachers' faces,
0:47.2	a whole new world.
0:48.2	I know, let's knock on wood that this world stays.
0:50.6	I hope so.
0:51.7	Well hey there, this is the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:54.4	I'm Usma Khalid, I cover the White House.
0:56.7	I'm Frank Ordonans, I also cover the White House.
0:59.4	And today on the show, special guest Joel Rose is joining us.
1:02.6	He covers Immigration for NPR.
1:04.4	Joel, thank you as always for coming on.
1:06.3	We really appreciate it.
1:07.3	Hey, happy to be here.
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