The people coming over here and migrate and they obviously want to change their life.

I feel like us have citizens that we just try to help them.

They didn't come in for no reason.

Regardless of how New York and Eric Adams try to deal with the crisis, our policy and our immigration

system, it's terribly dysfunctional.

It hasn't been updated since Clinton was president.

If that system isn't dealt with, we're never going to be able to make significant

progress. I just think the mayor hasn't done anything for anyone, nor do I see them doing anything

for the migrants.

So on top of housing, it's residents.

How do we house the migrants who come here?

You can complain and want them gone, but they're not going to leave,

so we might as well like offer them better solutions

and allow them to give their children a place to call home here in New York. It's Notes from America. I'm Kai Wright. Welcome to the show. People who responded to a recent Gallup poll say

they are most likely to rank immigration as the country's largest problem.

Not inflation, not housing, not health care, not even a collapsing democracy,

but immigration, that's 28% of respondents.

And so, last week, President Biden and Donald Trump each staged dueling photo ops at the US border with Mexico.

Both men went to Texas, President Biden in Brownsville, Trump and Eagle Pass, where he was joined by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

The governor has successfully turned Eagle Pass and Texas generally into a national

symbol for politicians who argue in his words that the United States is suffering under a quote

invasion of migrants from Latin America and indeed people who have crossed the border seeking asylum

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