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Listen to “The Impact of the Democrats’ Immigration Agenda” on Spreaker.

In the first round of Democratic presidential debates in the 2020 campaign, multiple Democrats announced their goal to decriminalize illegal immigration, end deportations of people who commit no other offense than entering the country illegally, and extend government-funded health care to those who broke the law to get here.

With both parties now acknowledging a humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border, what would be the impact of removing criminal penalties for coming into the country illegally and what would be the financial toll on taxpayers to fund health care for millions of people who failed to enter the country properly?

We discuss all these questions and more with Steven Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies.

Happy Reagan’s Birthday everyone! Today, Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America applaud Vice President Mike Pence for bringing Otto Warmbier’s father as his guest to the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in South Korea and keeping the focus on North Korean repression in the midst of the communist regime’s charm offensive during in the games. They’re also exasperated as President Trump gives his political opponents and the media new fodder for criticism as Trump flippantly suggests Democrats were treasonous for not applauding good news during his State of the Union address last week. And they’re deeply frustrated as an illegal immigrant previously deported for drunk driving is now charged with the death of Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson and his Uber driver – once again while drunk and in the U.S. illegally. They also slam the media for biased coverage of the immigration debate, dismissing stories like this and focusing almost exclusively on the success stories of young people in the nation illegally.