{"id":1487623,"date":"2024-02-07T18:51:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T18:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/?p=460470"},"modified":"2024-02-07T18:51:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T18:51:58","slug":"what-is-the-progressive-vision-for-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/07\/what-is-the-progressive-vision-for-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is the Progressive Vision for Immigration?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>This article was originally published as a newsletter from Ryan Grim.&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/join.theintercept.com\/signup\/signup-ryan-grim\"><em>Sign up to get the next one in your inbox.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"has-underline\">When it comes<\/span> to climate policy, there\u2019s the Green New Deal. On health care, we have Medicare For All. For workers, we want union-friendly policy and a higher minimum wage. But what\u2019s the progressive North Star on immigration policy?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not obvious. From one direction, you have the idea that used to be pushed by politicians like Bernie Sanders over the years, that immigration needs to be restricted for the benefit of domestic workers. That used to be the AFL-CIO\u2019s position, though it\u2019s not anymore. From the other direction, you have those who argue borders are largely a relic of a bad idea \u2013 nationalism \u2013 and that human flourishing requires the freedom to migrate to be universal, or nearly so. This <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/02\/02\/open-borders-immigration-book\/\">week\u2019s podcast <\/a>is an interview with John Washington, the author of the provocative new book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.haymarketbooks.org\/books\/2199-the-case-for-open-borders#:~:text=Brilliant%20and%20provocative%2C%20The%20Case,beyond%20the%20boundaries%20of%20narrow\">The Case for Open Borders<\/a>.\u201d It\u2019ll make you think, at least.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?si=GVISxVbUfnqi63uj&amp;v=m_TZNqrPxAw&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Counter Points<\/a> today, we interviewed Squad-adjacent Rep. Greg Casar of Texas on the unfolding debacle that is this week\u2019s congressional debate over immigration policy. After the Senate attempted to trade border policy for money for Ukraine and Israel, Trump turned on the deal immediately and congressional Republicans killed it without so much as a vote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I put the question to Casar of what the progressive vision truly is when it comes to immigration policy, and he acknowledged there isn\u2019t one, but took a stab at articulating it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gist:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Create a pathway to citizenship for the undocumented in order to end a two-tier society. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Expand legal pathways to citizenship in order to end the chaos at the border and drain power from cartels.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>End sanctions and other American policies that destabilize foreign countries, which produces an exodus of migrants to our border.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Expand work visas so that if somebody wants to come to the U.S. to do farm or construction labor, for instance, they don\u2019t have to come here permanently and bring their families, which they often would prefer not to do, but are forced to do so by our restrictionist policy.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Surge resources to the asylum system so there are enough judges and attorneys to reasonably manage it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Hard to capture all that in a slogan. And it\u2019s also by no means a progressive consensus.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also talked with Casar about tomorrow\u2019s election in Pakistan. Even as the State Department has largely shrugged off reports of flagrant abuse of the electoral process, members of Congress from both parties have been increasingly raising their voices, from both the top Republican and top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, to the intel-linked Democrat Abigail Spanberger, to Squad-y members like Rep. Summer Lee of Pennsylvania and Casar.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/02\/07\/pakistan-election-pti-imran-khan\/\">new story up at The Intercept on eight of the most flagrant violations<\/a>. You have to read it to believe it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Casar said that he has spoken directly to the State Department about his concerns regarding American hypocrisy when it comes to Pakistani democracy, and has also warned the Pakistan ambassador that existing law could be used to cut aid to Pakistan given its human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/02\/07\/what-is-the-progressive-vision-for-immigration\/\">What Is the Progressive Vision for Immigration?<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/\">The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/02\/07\/what-is-the-progressive-vision-for-immigration\/\">The Intercept<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And, as Pakistan voters go to the polls, the U.S.-backed government is throwing up absurd obstacles to voting.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/02\/07\/what-is-the-progressive-vision-for-immigration\/\">What Is the Progressive Vision for Immigration?<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/\">The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68890],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487701,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487623\/revisions\/1487701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}