WTH: Does Trump Support Legal Immigration? Ramesh Ponnuru and Michael Strain Debate

President Donald Trump has routinely said he supports
immigration, as long as it’s legal, including when Marc
interviewed the former president for the Washington Post. Then in
the pages of National Review, Marc’s AEI colleagues Michael
Strain and Ramesh Ponnuru debated the extent to which Trump
supported legal immigration during his presidency and now on the
campaign trail. So, we are bringing Strain and Ponnuru onto the
pod to debate the extent of Trump’s support for legal
immigration, and how he might and should address immigration
reform in a potential second term.


Ramesh Ponnuru is a nonresident senior fellow at the American
Enterprise Institute, where he studies politics and public policy
with a particular focus on the future of conservatism.
Concurrently, he is the editor of National Review, where he has
covered national politics and public policy for 25 years, and a
columnist for the Washington Post.


Michael Strain is the director of Economic Policy Studies and the
Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American
Enterprise Institute. He is also the Professor of Practice at the
McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, a
research fellow with the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, a
research affiliate with the Institute for Research on Poverty at
the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and a member of the Aspen
Economic Strategy Group. Dr. Strain also writes as a columnist
for Project Syndicate.


Read the transcript here.


Read Marc’s interview with President Trump in the Washington Post
here.


Read Michael Strain’s article in the National Review here.


Read Ramesh Ponnuru’s article in the National Review here.


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