Episode 953 • • 2:35:37 - 2:41:45
953: His Name is Nimrod
RAISE Act, Merit-Based Immigration, Historical Comparisons
The RAISE Act, a proposed merit-based immigration system, is discussed alongside media criticism that it would have barred the ancestors of Trump and Stephen Miller. The hosts argue that comparing 1885 immigration needs to modern policy is a logical fallacy, as the country's requirements for labor and assimilation have changed. They critique Jim Acosta's confrontation with Stephen Miller over the "Statue of Liberty" poem as a theatrical rather than substantive debate.