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#BESTOF2021: 1/2: Garland, Abbott and the Border. @RichardAEpstein @HOOVERINST (Originally aired August 20, 2021)

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🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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#BESTOF2021: 1/2: Garland, Abbott and the Border. @RichardAEpstein @HOOVERINST (Originally aired August 20, 2021)

https://www.hoover.org/research/human-tragedy-texas-border

1911 MEXICO CITY

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odds of 4 to 1 in 3 selections tease and see supply. Epstein of the Hoover Institution Senior Fellow writing at Defining Ideas about the

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supremacy clause in the Constitution of the United States and its

0:49.7

interpretation by the Governor of Texas, the attorney general of the United States, and the

0:55.7

Supreme Court of the United States through these decades.

0:59.2

We begin, however, with a story that this is about the tragedies at the border between Mexico and the United

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States, in particular Texas.

1:07.4

I mentioned that I have been reporting on the Great Migration worldwide for many weeks and will continue because many populations are

1:16.0

dislocated by crime, by geopolitics, by climate, by just the circumstances of their poverty. However, in particular at the border with Texas,

1:28.0

what we're seeing now are large numbers of human beings seeking a better life for the children, hence they're bringing

1:34.7

children, or the children are unaccompanied when they cross the border, or the women are

1:39.7

pregnant or carrying small children.

1:42.3

I tell the tragedy best by describing what's going on

1:46.0

on the way to the Mexican border in a place called the Darien Gap which is

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60 miles of triple canopy jungle between Colombia and Panama.

1:54.5

This is in the Isthmus.

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This is the part of Central America where it narrows.

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