Frank Sharry (Founder of America’s Voice) and David Bier (Associate Director of Immigration Studies at the Cato Institute) join host Ron Steslow to discuss some of the biggest issues in immigration policy and what’s getting in the way of immigration reform:
(01:52) Why Frank and David started focusing on immigration policy
(04:25) What the first principles of immigration policy should be
(14:00) Areas of policy agreement on the center-left and center-right
(28:20) The movement toward nativism on the far-right
(33:21) Robert Kenney Jr’s trip to the border
(36:32) A closed border vs Secure border
(46:40) How difficult it is to legally immigrate to the U.S.
(1:02:20) Seeing immigration as a problem to be managed vs opportunity to for country to grow
(1:09:00) What meaningful immigration reform could look like
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