Five Things You Need to Know About the Border Crisis
Topics Discussed: 1. There is a legitimate rise in people seeking to cross the border both illegally and legally, but we are not at record levels of immigration. (02:33) 2. The Northern Triangle (08:33) 3. For most of our history, border deportations were pretty informal if not absent. (14:20) 4. The Trump administration does not believe the U.S. should welcome the persecuted or oppressed. (18:57) 5. Increased migration to the US is part of an international trend -- this could be the new normal. (23:51) Referenced: Our 2016 primer on immigration General Chapman's Last Stand (Revisionist…
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