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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

TDS Time Machine | Jon Stewart on Immigration Over the Years

Sat, 01 Feb 2025

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Whether it's child refugees, Arizona's ridiculous immigration law, searching immigrants they find "reasonably suspicious," or "anchor babies," Jon Stewart has you covered on all things immigration.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Chapter 1: What is the historical context of immigration in the U.S.?

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Since October, 52,000 unaccompanied children have been picked up trying to cross into the U.S.

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47.682 - 53.566 Samantha Bee

What's driving these people north is crippling poverty and out-of-control violence in places like Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

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Not our kids!

68.735 - 74.517 Steve Carell

Not our problem! If Obama likes them so much, let him stay at the White House!

78.238 - 95.251 Jon Stewart

That is an interesting suggestion. Although a grown man inviting thousands of kids to his house gives off a little bit of a Neverland Ranch vibe. All right, so look, it's not like these countries developed problems overnight. Why the sudden kidsplosion?

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Republicans point to the President's 2012 order that protects some children from deportation, but that applies only to those who enter the United States before 2007.

Chapter 2: What are the reasons for the surge in unaccompanied children crossing the border?

619.943 - 649.277 Jon Stewart

Holy . He thinks you've gone too far, Arizona. Tom Tancredo. The man Mexican parents tell their kids about to get them to eat their vegetables. He thinks you've gone too far. It's, it's, he does. It'd be like Ted Nugent. Be like Ted Nugent pleading with you to just put down the guns and talk this thing out.

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652.16 - 659.799 Jon Stewart

But one of the bill's sponsors, State Senator Russell Pierce, explains how laughable, laughable, What charges of racial profiling are?

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660.42 - 666.888 Josh Johnson

The charge by the opponents to this measure is that it will encourage, indeed almost mandate, racial profiling.

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667.008 - 675.879 Louie Gohmert

You know, I have two children, two grandchildren that are Hispanic.

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675.899 - 695.14 Jon Stewart

And I'm going to miss them. For more on Arizona's immigration controversy, we go to Wyatt Cenac live from Phoenix. Wyatt, how in any way do you enforce this bill without racial profiling or violating the equal protection or search and seizure laws in the Constitution?

695.66 - 701.103 Wyatt Cenac

It's easy, John. The law is very clear. You only check people who are reasonably suspicious.

701.643 - 713.895 Jon Stewart

Right. But if you don't catch them coming across the border... What would they be doing that would be suspicious as immigrants? Are they looking for people doing this?

716.795 - 725.578 Wyatt Cenac

Of course not. That's ridiculous. They're looking for illegals. They're looking for people acting suspiciously, like gardening or burping white people's babies.

725.598 - 737.342 Jon Stewart

But, Wyatt, those are not illegal activities in and of themselves, assuming you have the white parents' permission.

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