Daniel Di Martino – The Economics of the Border Crisis
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
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🗓️ 4 October 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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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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| 0:46.2 | Hello Daniel, how are you? |
| 0:47.9 | Hey, Glenn, good. |
| 0:48.8 | All great. |
| 0:50.7 | I'm doing well. |
| 0:51.8 | Doing well. |
| 0:51.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:52.2 | This is Glenn Lowry. |
| 0:53.8 | If you're looking at this, you tuned into the Glenn show. |
| 0:56.6 | I'm a professor at Ground University |
| 0:58.6 | and John Paulson Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. |
| 1:02.4 | And this week, I'm talking with Daniel D. Martino who is a graduate |
| 1:07.6 | fellow at the Manhattan Institute, or colleagues, and a doctoral student, PhD student in economics at Columbia University, |
| 1:16.0 | writes about immigration and that's why I asked Daniel on the program so we could talk |
| 1:21.0 | about what he knows, mind his wisdom on the immigration question |
| 1:27.6 | and get the benefit of him dealing with the data and whatnot. |
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