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Abbott and DeSantis: Stunt queens or policy makers?

2022-09-27

US immigration policy is complicated. And when Republican Govs. Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis chartered buses and planes to relocate migrants to “blue cities,” it raised a ton of legal questions. But it also ignited the age-old question about our immigration system: Why is it so complicated? Weeds veteran Dara Lind (@DLind) explains.

References:

Why Ron DeSantis is baiting Biden on the border 

Opinion | Ron DeSantis Is Making an Asylum Crisis of His Own

Host:

Jonquilyn Hill (@jonquilynhill), Vox senior producer 

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Sofi LaLonde, producer and engineer

Libby Nelson, editorial adviser

A.M. Hall, deputy editorial director of talk podcasts

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