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The Dreamers

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Whenever immigration rises to the top of the national agenda, we like to call on the best guys we know on the topic, Mickey Kaus and Mark Krikorian. We do a deep dive into the Dreamers, DACA, and The Wall. Also, that deal with Chuck and Nancy, Rob defends Betsy DeVos, and James remembers a dog named Scout.

Music from this week’s podcast: Bodhisattva by Steely Dan

Hosts:
James LileksPeter RobinsonRob Long
Guests:
MKMark KrikorianMKMickey Kaus

Discussion (13)

  • Petty B@PettyBoozswha

    A great, great podcast. You folks touched on a lot of my most passionate dislikes: my #NeverTrump emotions still make one eye spin clockwise and the other counterclockwise every time I focus on him being our President for more than 20 seconds, The Art of the Choke ought to be the focus of your next podcast. You also brought up teacher's unions, illegal immigration and, in passing, the most pernicious barnacle on our current political process, the filibuster.

    An innocent question you could put to knowledgeable or influential people: Why can't the House pass a clean Dreamer bill with E-Verify and chain migration eliminated? It could then go to the Senate, put on the floor and McConnell could demand that Dems bring out the cots and be on TV doing a full, real filibuster for a few weeks or months or how ever long it took. Why is this too much for Republican leaning peons out here in the sticks to ask for?

  • Quake Voter@QuakeVoter

    Rob: can you back off the silly claim that Trump will never cut entitlements because he promised not to? (He's just not that principled.)

    Sure, he is not a fiscal conservative (just wait for the Japanese-sized infrastructure bill), but he was willing to sign an ACA reform which cut Medicaid by $1 trillion dollars and restructured and federalized one of the tentpole entitlements of the Great Society.

    The GOP was simply unwilling to cut a single dollar out of a massive expansion of Medicaid spending over the next decade. Not one buck.

    Maybe the GOP signing machine in the Oval Office is no longer working, but the opportunity was there and the GOP Congress gave us a rerun of Failure Theatre.

  • BD1

    “No. 2 Senate Democrat Dick Durbin has had multiple conversations with Jared Kushner and other top White House officials about how to protect young immigrants known as ‘Dreamers’ from deportation, the lawmaker said on Thursday.”

    It’s time to start looking for a new GOP nominee for 2020 right now.

  • George Townsend@GeorgeTownsend

    thisamericanlife.org

    Open link

    While I am not positive that the above is the podcast to which Rob referred. I think it is. It took me a little while to find. It is fair to Mrs. DeVoss. It does paint her in a favorable light, saying how she does care about children. But... being NPR... the woman speaking, and telling us about Betsy DeVoss makes clear that the Secretary's approach is the wrong one. The Department was created to cater to PUBLIC education, and it must do that. I vote with Mrs. DeVoss: The children MUST come first!

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