Just Asking Questions

Demographer Julia Gelatt of the Migration Policy Institute joins us to discuss the likely effects of President Trump's executive orders on immigration. Subscribe YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@reasonJustAskingQuestions/featured Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-asking-questions/id1719355507 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5SpySKAH3LuVyxXk0MF7tl Text and links to sources available here: https://reason.com/podcasts/just-asking-questions/ What Happens If Trump "seals the border"? Among Trump's day one executive orders is one just called Securing Our Borders, which promises to build the wall, detain and deport immigrants who violate federal or state law, prosecute illegal border crossers, and obtain "complete operational control" of the border. He also declared a state of emergency and ordered the military to "seal the border" and repel an "invasion." Perhaps most controversial of all, another order claims to end birthright citizenship. The crackdown is already in full swing, with NBC News reporting a single day record 1,179 immigration arrests this past Sunday. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted pictures of herself overseeing a series of arrests in New York on Tuesday. Today's guest is going to help us understand the myths and realities of the immigration system at this juncture and offer some suggestions about what pragmatic steps could be taken to reform an immigration system that people on all sides have come to believe just isn't working. Julia Gelatt is associate director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute, where her research focus is on the legalities of the immigration system, demographic trends, and the interactions between local, state and federal immigration policy. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:56 How did we get here? 03:50 The impact of social media on migration 05:41 What will the short-term effect of Trump's executive orders look like? 10:47 What is life like for someone trying to enter the U.S. through Mexico? 13:16 What is/was the CBP One app? 14:28 Steelmanning the Trumpian case against immigration 25:48 The most common jobs an immigrant takes. 29:16 J.D. Vance's spat with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops 36:39 How much money does the government spend to resettle a refugee? 37:23 The failures of New York 44:32 The reality of government assistance 48:31 Immigration, the job market, and fertility rates 56:56 The problems with the current visa system 01:00:43 Bridge visas 01:07:54 Brain Drain? 01:11:01 The future of birthright citizenship 01:16:15 What is a question that you think that more people should be asking?

Mike Pesca reacts to Trump's inauguration and slate of executive orders on the latest ep of Just Asking Questions. Subscribe YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@reasonJustAskingQuestions/featured Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-asking-questions/id1719355507 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5SpySKAH3LuVyxXk0MF7tl Text and links to sources available here: https://reason.com/podcasts/just-asking-questions/ How will the second Donald Trump presidential term transform America? Just asking questions. It's officially the Trump 2.0 era. One New York Times columnist called his inaugural address "American Carnage 2," while Trump promised a new American "golden age" in his speech. So how excited, hopeful, or anxious should we be as we enter these next four years? Journalist Mike Pesca, host of the popular daily news podcast The Gist, joined Reason Senior Producer Zach Weissmueller and Associate Editor Liz Wolfe to reflect on Trump's inaugural address. They also discussed Elon Musk's appearance at the inauguration and Trump's slate of Day 1 executive orders.

Why are we forgetting history’s lessons? We’re told in school that we study history so as not to repeat its mistakes. But what if those lessons aren’t sticking? Today’s guest regularly invokes what he calls The Great Forgetting. And the striking thing about this collective amnesia is that it doesn’t apply only to distant, ancient history, but hard lessons learned only a few decades ago: Lessons about inflation, price controls, and crime. Tyler Cowen is the Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Director of the Mercatus Center and host of the great podcast Conversations with Tyler. He and his colleague Alex Tabbarok founded the popular and influential economics blog Marginal Revolution and recently launched their own joint show, the Marginal Revolution Podcast, which recently released a limited series on the unlearned economic and cultural lessons of the 1970s.

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