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In this episode I discuss my thoughts about how the U.S. is currently dealing with immigration and immigrants. As an immigrant to Israel I lean on my experience to compare Israel to the U.S. I also reserve some particularly sharp critique for Trump’s current Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller.

Emma Lazarus’s sonnet “The New Colossus”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/the-new-colossus

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston on his city’s handling of immigrants

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz6U5vwCcak&t=299s

Ronald Reagan’s farewell address

https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/farewell-address-nation

Stephen Miller’s early life

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/us/politics/stephen-miller-trump-white-house.html

Op-ed by David Glosser, Miller’s uncle

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351/

Kristi Noem’s photo ophttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKYW5gKeOWc

Article on immigrants and crime

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/sites/default/files/research/debunking_the_myth_of_immigrants_and_crime.pdf

Article - “The Afrikaner Exception” by Meir Brooks

https://meirbrooks.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/racism-of-the-unadulterated-kind


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