Why Can't Anyone Get Their Immigration Facts Straight?: Podcast
The president and his detractors both bungle scare stories in the outrage-politics contest that passes for our immigration policy debate.
President Donald Trump can barely open his mouth about immigration without getting something heinously wrong. Attorney General Jeff Sessions can barely open his mouth about immigration without getting something heinously wrong. And too many of the people opposing this administration's immigration policies have a hard time doing so without themselves getting a bunch of stuff heinously wrong. Is this any way to tackle the admittedly difficult and always emotional policy issue of what to do about foreign nationals who seek to visit, work in, and/or move to this country?
On today's editor-roundtable edition of the Reason Podcast, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, and yours truly talk about how bad faith makes bad immigration policy, and also about the NFL/national anthem kerfuffle, Europe's awful General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and—by request!—our special summer-reading recommendations (which you can find below the podcast):
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Relevant links from the show:
"What It Means That ICE 'Lost' 1,500 Refugee Children," by Elizabeth Nolan Brown
"Government Has 'Lost' 1,475 Unaccompanied Minors It Apprehended at the U.S. Border," by Nick Gillespie
"Lies About Chain Migration Are Donald Trump's 'Welfare Queen,' a Tall Tale To Comfort the Base," by Nick Gillespie
"Jeff Sessions' Immigration Lies," by Matt Welch
"NFL's National Anthem Policy Exposes Free Speech Hypocrisy of Right, Left, and Trump," by Robby Soave
"NFL Players WILL Respect the Flag's Authoritah, Says Commissioner," by Matt Welch
"The End of Free Speech," by Katherine Mangu-Ward
"Europe's New Data Privacy Rules Will Make Facebook and Google More Powerful," by Andrea O'Sullivan
"Chicago Is Trying to Pay Down Its Debt by Impounding Innocent People's Cars," by C.J. Ciaramella
"Philip Roth, RIP" by Nick Gillespie
Special summer reading recommendations:
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, by Michael Pollan
2312, by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Gone-Away World, by Nick Harkaway
The Witch Elm: A Novel, by Tana French
Broken Harbor, by Tana French
Session Cocktails: Low-Alcohol Drinks for Any Occasion, by Drew Lazor and the editors of Punch
Blandings Castle Series, by P.G. Wodehouse
Bad Citizen Corporation: A Greg Salem Mystery, by S.W. Lauden
HHhH: A Novel, by Laurent Binet
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