Right now, what's in the news is asylum seekers. Is there broad agreement amongst the public on this kind of immigration itself? Like, what does the public want, the Biden administration, or any administration to do about the current situation? My perception of what is going on is that many of the forces that are at work that push people to arrive to the U.S. border are outside of the government control.
Title 42 is expiring on Thursday night, a pandemic-era rule allowing the U.S. government to turn away asylum seekers at the border as a public health measure. This comes at a time when apprehensions at the border are already at record highs and Americans give President Biden some of his lowest ratings on his handling of immigration.
In this installment of the podcast, Galen speaks with Georgetown economics professor Anna Maria Mayda about what Americans think of immigration and why, its impacts on the U.S. and its politics, and how that compares with other countries.
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