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Washington, D.C. (September 9, 2022) – On this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, host Mark Krikorian is joined by Akiva Lamm, the government and communications director for the Israeli Immigration Policy Center, based in Jerusalem. Krikorian and Lamm explore the striking similarities between the immigration-control challenges faced by their respective countries.
The IIPC was established in 2012 in response to the illegal infiltration of "asylum-seekers" from Sudan and Eritrea across Israel's desert border with Egypt – a problem very similar to the one faced by the U.S. on its own southern border. It was solved by the construction of a barrier along Israel's entire 150-mile border with Egypt, though Lamm stresses the need in addition for a legal "wall", to deter possible infiltrators and visa-overstayers from breaking the law in the first place.
In his closing commentary, Krikorian brings attention to the mainstream media’s acceptance of a lack of transparency from the Biden administration. A recent New York Times story belatedly acknowledged that, “Biden Administration Has Admitted One Million Migrants to Await Hearings” (two and a half months after the Center reported the same thing, based on publicly available documents), but tacked that headline onto a feature story about migrants in Portland, Maine.
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