Beyond Immigration Talks with Madeline Zavodny

Editor’s Note: Beyond Talking Points: An American Middle Podcast is a 9-part limited series leading up to the 2024 presidential election that takes the listener inside the briefing room of presidential campaigns.

Before they get to talking points or campaign speeches, candidates receive policy briefings from a variety of experts across the country. This knowledge is synthesized with the candidate’s own perspective and then fed into the campaign machine, polling, strategy, and communications. Most people don’t see the result until the end, in a tweet or a debate talking point.

But voters deserve the unfiltered political evaluations that candidates themselves receive behind closed doors. This podcast covers the key policy issues that matter to voters this election cycle, analyzing what the campaigns are promising and what America really needs.

Beyond the topics of discussion on immigration

Madeline Zavodny, professor of economics at the University of North Florida and adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, speaks with host Abby McCloskey about Trump’s promise of mass deportations, the problem of illegal immigration, the need for comprehensive immigration reform, the economic impact of immigration and what to do about the immigrants who are here.

Find all the episodes here: Beyond the Talking Points: An American Podcast.