BCR #20: Give U.S. Your Huddled Masses. Riiiiight!!! Pt. 2
Episode description
- "Trump is the first of any modern presidents to advocate for reducing legal immigration." Sarah Pierce of the Migration Policy Institute
- "More of the United States population are foreign-born now than at any time since 1910." NYTimes - Sept. 2018.
- The First Lady's parents become citizens through what Trump calls "Chain Migration." What a world!
BCR's second show on U.S. immigration brings in two experts -- one an academic -Immigration lawyer Cyrus Mehta on BCR at Gebhard's Bar in Manhattan -- Monica Varsanyi of John Jay College -- studying how immigration enforcement used to be a border thing but under P.T. has moved inland. Individual city governments and even police officers are making decisions that impact the lives of millions of immigrants and their families. And immigration lawyer Cyrus Mehta tries to explain the complexity of this country's immigration laws as if we were four-year-olds. And I still do not understand how it works.
In the end, these two experts on the issue of immigration in this county -- one from the side of enforcement -- the other from a criminal justice perspective -- express a compassion and respect for U.S. immigrants that is anathema to P.T..
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