Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast. People feel a lot of

ways about immigration. Sometimes it's fear of the other. Other times it's not about the people but just

dismay over a broken system. The validity of these concerns and others certainly

exist on a spectrum. Some are utter bullshit and others aren't.

Left-wing political parties tends to do a terrible job of creating immigration policy in that they just don't do it at all while the right

wing is all too happy to create and implement terrible policy and given a

choice between action and inaction, regardless of how misguided the proposed action, people and importantly voters with concerns will choose action.

Sources providing our top takes in about 50 minutes today include The Brian Larer Show,

Today Explained, The Times from The LA Times,

last week tonight with John Oliver, The Real News Network, and

this week in immigration. Then in the additional deeper dive half of the show,

there will be more on four topics. Section A, the UK riots. Section B, California Proposition 187. Section C. Trump

versus Harris. And Section D. Migrants. So can you just start by explaining giving us a little brief on exactly what happened in Southport?

It really tragic such a sad incident. little brief on exactly what happened in Southport.

It really tragic, such a sad incident.

What can you share about this knife attack?

So essentially a week ago, a 17 year old boy walked into a Taylor Swift themed holiday club with a knife and

indiscriminately stabbed young

girls in that club, girls, and he was then tackled to the ground and arrested by police.

In the aftermath of this tragic killing spree, the police did not disclose the assailant's name because in the UK you cannot disclose someone who's alleged to have committed a crime the name of them

if they're under the age of 18 and in that information vacuum stepped a huge misinformation on social media where someone came up with the idea that the assailant was

a Muslim who'd recently arrived in the UK as an undocumented

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