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Does Trump Have a Point About Asylum?: Podcast

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(Republican) president from 1981 to 1989, during a 1980 debate: "Open the borders both ways."

(Republican) president from 2017 to the present, this morning: "We will close the Border permanently if need be."

Latest Reason Podcast, editors' roundtable edition: Let's talk about all this and more!

Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman and Matt Welch today tackle some of the thorniest questions in our country's never-ending immigration debate: Does President Donald Trump have a point about the 1,700 percent jump in asylum seekers? Does Hillary Clinton have a point about the left abetting the populist right through failures of both policy and engagement? Do high immigration levels lead to the very degradation of social trust that certain people (cough, cough) keep yammering on about?

Along the way we also discuss balloon murder, Steven Pinker's hair, and our own insufferable Thanksgiving political conversations.

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