Biden’s border options

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Dara, Jane, and Matt on the big immigration questions that will face a new administration. Resources: "Would Biden 'rebuild the old program' to reduce Northern Triangle migration?" by Teresa Welsh, Devex "Inside the Refugee Camp on America's Doorstep" by Caitlin Dickerson, NYT White paper Hosts: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, Vox Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, Vox Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica Credits: Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds, and participate in "The Weeds Live" on election day? Please make a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jane, that sweatshirt is stolen valor.
0:04.6	This sweatshirt is not stolen valor as I believe marriage gets me in here.
0:09.0	I've spoken at Harvard and I went to the reunion, so...
0:12.2	Right, well, that's more than I've done.
0:15.3	Hello, welcome to another episode of The Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:33.3	I'm Matthew E. Glacias.
0:34.3	I'm here with Jane Kostin and ProPublica's Dara Lind.
0:37.9	Election Day 2020 is one week away, and because we normally record on Tuesday mornings,
0:45.5	but that would be weird with an election coming, we are actually going to do a special
0:51.0	and a live taping me and Jane and Eleanorson who's been covering a lot of Senate races and
0:56.5	actually knows what's going on in things that are important are going to do a kind of
1:00.9	a live recording event to which contributors to the Vox program are invited.
1:08.3	So if you like the weeds, like Vox, like parting with money, I want to know what's going
1:13.0	on.
1:14.0	This would be a great time to sign up and be a contributor.
1:17.7	Until then, I've been thinking about the election and what my actual...
1:23.2	I started thinking about this subject that Dara's going to enlighten us on when everybody
1:29.2	was a raring mad that Joe Biden would not give a crystal clear answer on court packing.
1:36.2	Because I just didn't feel that uncertain as to like what the deal is with Democrats
1:41.1	and court packing, which is that it just kind of depends on what happens.
1:45.9	Whereas a big question I have that Democrats do not really answer during the primary that
1:53.0	Biden for sort of contingent reasons has not been pressed on by Trump or by the media
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