Biden At The Border
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🗓️ 18 March 2021
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Summary
A White gunman attacked three spas in the Atlanta area on Tuesday killing eight people including six women of Asian descent. The shootings happened in the larger context of increasing violence and racism faced by Asian-Americans.
Yesterday we talked about the surge in migrants seeking asylum at the US-Mexico border. Today, we spoke to Atlantic staff writer Caitlin Dickerson to get a better sense of how we got here, how the Biden administration differs from Trump and Obama, and what’s to come.
And in headlines: the ADL says 2020 marked a huge surge in White supremacist propaganda, the Movement for Black Lives doesn't support the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, and Uber to treat drivers as workers in England.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, March 18th, I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Gideon Rezek and this is what a day of the podcast that Natalie Portman played |
| 0:12.2 | for Zach Braff and the iconic movie Garden State. |
| 0:14.5 | Yeah, they dubbed over it with that song that's like, |
| 0:16.3 | do do do do do do do do do. |
| 0:17.7 | But yeah, it's actually just the watch, you know. |
| 0:21.4 | This explains our whole shins beef that we've had for so long. |
| 0:34.9 | On today's show, we talked to immigration reporter Caitlin Dickerson about the situation |
| 0:38.2 | at the border and where things go from here, then some headlines. |
| 0:41.4 | But first the latest. |
| 0:43.0 | So obviously, whatever the motivation was for this guy, we know that many of the victims |
| 0:51.2 | with the majority of the victims were Asian. |
| 0:54.3 | We also know that this is an issue that's happening across the country. |
| 0:59.1 | It is unacceptable. |
| 1:00.6 | It is hateful and it has to stop. |
| 1:06.0 | That was Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottom speaking in a news conference yesterday about |
| 1:09.4 | the heinous attack on Tuesday night by a white man at three spas in the Atlanta area, which |
| 1:13.7 | killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent. |
| 1:17.0 | The shootings come at a moment of increasing harassment and hate crimes against the Asian |
| 1:20.8 | American community. |
| 1:22.0 | But let's start with what we know right now about the attack and the investigation. |
| 1:25.6 | Yeah, so this is a moving story we're recording at 10 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday night and things |
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