Daniel Di Martino – The Economics of the Border Crisis

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1:15 Why Daniel immigrated to the US

5:14 What went wrong in Venezuela?

8:45 Daniel: Both the Biden administration and global trends are to blame for the border crisis

11:19 Trump promises to deport record numbers of illegal immigrants. But can he?

13:00 What’s it take to fix immigration? Money.

18:39 The flawed strategy of making immigration into Mexico’s problem

20:48 The bad information and rumors fueling asylum-seekers

23:18 Should residency visa programs prioritize the richest immigrants?

32:13 The labor market consequences of immigration

37:27 Daniel’s large-scale proposals for national immigration policy

43:00 How many unauthorized immigrants are in US right now?

45:23 The political realities of immigration reform44:08 The political realities of immigration reform

Recorded September 23, 2025

Links and Readings

Daniel’s writing for City Journal

Daniel’s report for the Manhattan Institute, “The Lifetime Fiscal Impact of Immigrants”

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