The Pour Over Today - Bonus Episode: 2024 Election Topics - Immigration

Episode Date: August 13, 2024

Today, in a special episode of The Pour Over Today, we’re explaining the immigration debate, including where VP Harris, RFK Jr., and former President Trump stand. This is the first episode of our election collection, designed to help us grow in understanding and compassion on key 2024 election topics. Please support our TPO sponsors! CSB: links.thepourover.org/CSB_Podcast_0701 Cru: give.cru.org/tpo Compassion International: compassion.com/TPO Upside: https://links.thepourover.org/Upside Every Woman's Bible: everywomansbible.com Life Application Study Bible: https://links.thepourover.org/LASB_Podcast

Today, in a special episode of The Poor Over Today, we're explaining the immigration debate, including where VP Harris, RFK Jr., and former President Trump stand. This is the first episode of our election collection designed to help us grow in understanding and compassion on key 2024 election topics. First, some background. The United States-Mexico border has seen a major influx of migrants in recent years, overwhelming the immigration system and some cities. In 2000, US Border Patrol reported encountering

1.7 million migrants along the US.S.-Mexico border. That number declined to fewer than 500,000 encounters per year from 2010 to 2020 before surging to nearly 2.5 million in 2023. According to Pew Research, 77% of Americans describe the situation at the southern border as either a crisis or a major problem, catapulting immigration to a top issue among voters. While most agree the current system is broken, there are disagreements on how to fix it. So you're probably wondering, what are the two sides? Glad you asked.

Republicans generally support tighter border security and deportations of immigrants who entered illegally. They emphasize this as a way to reduce crime, protect the American economy, and be fair to those who follow the legal pathway to citizenship. Democrats generally support fewer barriers to entry and decreased deportations, placing greater importance on creating pathways to legal status for people who came here without legal documentation, especially as children, aka dreamers.

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Here are some key terms that come up a lot when discussing immigration. A refugee or asylum seeker is someone who is unable or unwilling to return to their home country for fear of persecution. Requesting asylum typically allows temporary legal entry into the country until an immigration judge can assess the merits of their claim. The Remain in Mexico program, officially named the Migrant Protection Protocols, was a Trump-era policy that required most asylum seekers on the southern border to remain in Mexico until a U.S. immigration judge assessed the merits of their asylum claim. Title 42 was a pandemic-era restriction that allowed the quick expulsion of most migrants in order to stop the introduction of communicable diseases.

It ended in May 2023, when the public health emergency for COVID-19 was lifted. Dreamers are undocumented or illegal immigrants who arrived in the United States as children and were then raised and educated in America. Most have lived the majority of their lives in the United States. The policy protecting dreamers from deportation

is called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. A sanctuary city is a local jurisdiction that limits or denies cooperation with federal immigration authorities seeking to deport undocumented or illegal immigrants. While you likely have no control over U.S. border policy, you are an important part of Christ's mission to demonstrate his love for the world. Reflect his inexhaustible compassion by humbly and unconditionally loving your neighbors

here and abroad. Revelation 7 verse 9 says, After this I looked, and there was a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language, which no one could number, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. And now, candidate stances. Vice President Harris supports creating legal pathways to citizenship and decreasing deportations. The daughter of immigrant parents, Jamaican father, Indian mother, she has advocated for a position of deterrence, securing nearly $5 billion in funding from the private sector to combat the root causes of immigration, economic instability, crime, etc. in Central American

countries. This year she supported a bill to increase border security funding. Former President Trump supports increased border security and wide-scale deportation of undocumented or illegal immigrants. While in office, he began construction on the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, instituted the Remain in Mexico policy, prohibited issuing visas to citizens of 14 majority Muslim countries, and supported legislation that would have reduced the levels of legal immigration by 50 percent, and imposed a refugee cap.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. supports increased border security. He proposes tightening the border through technology and increasing funding for immigration courts to get on top of asylum claims. He has also proposed cultivating a more positive relationship with Mexico and working with the Mexican government to stem the flow of transit migration. He has taken no clear stance on whether to deport undocumented or illegal immigrants already in the country. That's all we have for today. Thanks for listening. If you're listening on the Apple Podcast app, give us a five star rating and drop a review. If you're listening on the Apple Podcast app, give us a five star rating and drop a

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