Latest Southern border Podcast Episodes
Is the U.S. Legal Immigration System Outdated?
Parsing Immigration Policy - October 19, 2023 14:50 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsThe illegal immigration crisis at the southern border overshadows discussion about the existing legal immigration system in the United States. But on this episode of the Center for Immigration Studies’ podcast, Phillip Linderman, a Center board member and retired State Department senior Foreign S...
Unaccompanied and Unsafe: Biden Policies Facilitate Exploitation and Abuse of Child Migrants
Parsing Immigration Policy - October 12, 2023 08:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsThis week’s Parsing Immigration Policy episode raises awareness of a disturbing aspect of the border crisis – a large and increasing number of unaccompanied alien children who are delivered by the government into the hands of labor and sex traffickers. Guest Tara Lee Rodas, a Health and Human Ser...
Legal and Illegal Immigration: Understanding U.S. High-Skilled Immigration
Parsing Immigration Policy - October 05, 2023 17:55 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsIn this week’s episode of the Center for Immigration Studies’ Parsing Immigration Policy podcast, the senior editor at The American Conservative, Helen Andrews, delves into the topic of high-skilled immigration and its political, economic, and cultural implications. Andrews, alongside podcast hos...
Work Authorization Expansion: Attracts and Embeds Illegal Immigration Population in U.S. Society
Parsing Immigration Policy - September 28, 2023 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsIn this week’s podcast, the Center for Immigration Studies highlights the expansion of work authorization for newly arrived migrants and those who have entered the country illegally. Work permits are an often-ignored part of the discussion on immigration policy but are a major pull factor for imm...
Terrorist Entry Through the Southwest Border
Parsing Immigration Policy - September 21, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsThis week's podcast is a rebroadcast of the September 14 House Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement hearing entitled, “Terrorist Entry Through the Southwest Border.” The hearing examined, “the national security implications of the Department of Homeland Security's open...
The Humanitarian Impact of Biden’s Border Policies
Parsing Immigration Policy - September 14, 2023 17:29 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsOn this episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, we are joined by Sheriff Mark Dannels of Cochise County, Ariz., and Andrew Arthur, Resident Fellow in Law and Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies. Cochise County is located along Arizona’s southeastern border with Mexico, and Sheriff Dannels...
Policing in Rural Texas: San Jacinto County Sheriff Addresses the Open Border’s Strain on Enforcement
Parsing Immigration Policy - September 08, 2023 12:20 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsSan Jacinto county is located north of Houston and over 200 miles from the southern U.S.-Mexico border. This rural county and the surrounding areas, including Liberty County, have seen an explosion of migrant settlement and increasing cartel activity. In this week’s episode of Parsing Immigratio...
Panel Podcast: Parole and the CBP One App
Parsing Immigration Policy - August 31, 2023 09:05 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsThe Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel discussion entitled “Parole and the CBP One App: Fact and Fiction”. Speakers examined the legality of the CBP One App scheme, the number of entries, legal challenges, and the myths put forth about it. Mark Morgan, former Acting Commissioner of U....
Guestworker Programs: Can They Ever Work as Advertised?
Parsing Immigration Policy - August 24, 2023 15:36 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsCongress created the first guestworker programs to fill labor shortages on a temporary basis, without displacing American workers or abusing the foreign workers. Over time, the programs have multiplied and expanded, such that now close to a million people a year are imported for both less-skille...
Biden’s Illegal Immigration Schemes Hurt the Legal Immigration System
Parsing Immigration Policy - August 17, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsA new government report confirms that the Biden administration’s policies accommodating illegal immigration are harming the legal immigration system. On this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Elizabeth Jacobs, the Center for Immigration Studies director of regulatory affairs and poli...
Do Immigrants Transplant Certain Cultural Traits?
Parsing Immigration Policy - August 10, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsSeveral studies and books have highlighted how migrants, either within one country or from one to another, transmit certain elements of their culture to their descendants rather than fully assimilating to the new culture. This has been observed in the migration of Southerners within the United St...
Does the U.S. Labor Market Really “Need” Immigrants?
Parsing Immigration Policy - August 03, 2023 15:43 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsPermissive legal and illegal immigration policies have been shown to hurt the working class in America the most. Yet, the media and corporate America often repeat the myth that there are certain jobs Americans won’t do, and that the U.S. is experiencing a labor shortage. They conclude, therefore,...
Potential Crimes of the Biden Administration
Parsing Immigration Policy - July 27, 2023 09:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsThe Center for Immigration Studies recently uncovered what appears to be deliberate participation in alien smuggling by the Department of Homeland Security. Todd Bensman, the Center’s senior national security fellow, revealed the facilitation of illegal entry of large numbers of aliens across the...
Texas DPS Defends the Border; CBP Helps Migrants Enter
Parsing Immigration Policy - July 20, 2023 16:16 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsConflict has erupted at the Texas-Mexico border between two different arms of law enforcement – Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). CBP has been instructed by the Biden administration to bring migrants they encounter into the country, after which ...
Washington Subsidizes Sanctuary Cities
Parsing Immigration Policy - July 13, 2023 04:37 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsSanctuary jurisdictions are states or localities that obstruct the enforcement of immigration laws and shield criminals from federal authorities. And Washington sends millions in funding to them anyway. On this episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, host and Executive Director of the Center for ...
Dissecting the SCOTUS Immigration Decisions
Parsing Immigration Policy - July 06, 2023 15:39 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsThis week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy examines two recent immigration-related Supreme Court opinions and delves into the implications of those rulings for immigration law enforcement, public safety, and the role of Congress in shaping immigration policy. Andrew Arthur, the Center’s f...
The Impact of Immigration on Education
Parsing Immigration Policy - June 29, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsThis week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy covers the impact of immigration on the American education system. Two experts from the Center for Immigration Studies join us to discuss this issue. Steven Camarota, Director of Research, talks about the impact of both legal and illegal immigrati...
Immigration Roundup: “Temporary” Protected Status and Kamala Harris Facilitated Child Labor
Parsing Immigration Policy - June 22, 2023 18:10 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsThis week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy is an immigration roundup, discussing two issues in the news. The conversation highlights the recent extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for multiple countries, and how the anti-enforcement efforts of Vice President Kamala Ha...
From ESL Teacher to Immigration Enforcement Activist
Parsing Immigration Policy - June 15, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsThis week’s guest on Parsing Immigration Policy has over 35 years of experience in immigration policy and activism, perhaps more experience than Mark Krikorian, host of the podcast and executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies. Joe Guzzardi is a California native whose journey thro...
What is the CBP One App?
Parsing Immigration Policy - June 08, 2023 14:25 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsThe CBP One app is one of the latest tools the Biden administration is using to funnel illegal immigrants into the United States, while obfuscating the true scope of the border crisis. As Mark Krikorian, host of Parsing Immigration Policy and executive director of the Center for Immigration Studi...
How U.S. Border Policies Led to Child Labor and Home-Country Financial Instability
Parsing Immigration Policy - June 01, 2023 09:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsThe Guatemalan Highlands have a low homicide rate and strong family and community structure. For those in this region, immigration to the United States is an economic decision and usually means paying smugglers to send a teenage family member to find a job and sending money home – in the past cou...
H-1B Visa Program: Myths and Needed Reforms
Parsing Immigration Policy - May 25, 2023 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsThe H-1B visa program, the largest U.S. foreign worker program, was created to provide temporary workers for employers unable to find American or green card workers for a specialty occupation, like computers, engineering, science, and technology. Over time the program has been abused by employers...
Panel Podcast: Gatekeeper Countries
Parsing Immigration Policy - May 18, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsThe Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel discussion on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, discussing the present and future role of “gatekeeper countries” in controlling illegal immigration to destination countries in both Europe and North America. The number of illegal arrivals to a country is...
5/11: The End of Title 42
Parsing Immigration Policy - May 11, 2023 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsTitle 42, the public-health rule that allows the Border Patrol to expel border-jumpers without a hearing, ends tonight at 11:59pm. It remains unclear how the Biden administration plans to enforce the border, which is already being flooded by migrants who are crossing by the thousands. Todd Bensm...
What’s In Store for NumbersUSA?
Parsing Immigration Policy - May 04, 2023 10:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsAs a think tank, the Center for Immigration Studies focuses on research and public education regarding America’s immigration policies. NumbersUSA, on the other hand, is a grassroots, citizen-action organization, which seeks to inform and mobilize voters to contact their representatives to share t...
Congress Responds to Biden’s Broken Border
Parsing Immigration Policy - April 28, 2023 15:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsTwo immigration bills are making their way through the House of Representatives, both of which address the Biden border crisis and seek to stem the tide of illegal migration at our Southwest border. To discuss the bills and the potential impact on the border crisis, we are joined on Parsing Immig...
How to Take Back Control of the Border
Parsing Immigration Policy - April 20, 2023 18:28 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsFew people can fully understand the situation at the border like a Border Patrol agent. Throughout his long career, Tony Porvaznik has witnessed the fluctuations in the level and impact of illegal immigration at the border. He joins us for this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy. Porva...
Obstacles to Meaningful Immigration Policy Change
Parsing Immigration Policy - April 13, 2023 15:31 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsOn this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Mark Krikorian, host of the podcast and the Center’s executive director, is joined by Theo Wold, who worked on immigration in the Trump White House. Currently Idaho’s solicitor general, Wold’s formal title in the Trump administration was Depu...
The Unseen Surge of Illegal Immigration at the Canadian Border
Parsing Immigration Policy - April 06, 2023 17:51 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsSummary Illegal immigration discussions typically focus on the southern border of the United States, with little focus on the northern border with Canada. But even the northern border is experiencing a surge in illegal crossings, including increasing numbers of illegal immigrants from further ab...
Vignettes from a Former Border Patrol Agent
Parsing Immigration Policy - March 30, 2023 19:37 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 37 ratingsSummary What do Border Patrol agents do in the field? This week’s guest on Parsing Immigration Policy, Paul Eberle, explains just that. Eberle is a former Border Patrol agent and author of Look at the Dirt: The Story of Border Patrol Agents Through Their Own Eyes. His book includes accounts of a...
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