FiveThirtyEight Politics
FiveThirtyEight Politics
ABC News, 538, FiveThirtyEight, Galen Druke
How Immigration Shapes American Politics
33 minutes Posted May 11, 2023 at 4:07 pm.
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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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