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Federalist Radio Hour

Cartel Country: Emily And John Reflect On Their Trip To Northern Mexico

Federalist Radio Hour

Radio America

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Senior Editor John Daniel Davidson and Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky recount their recent trip to the U.S.-Mexico border and analyze how American immigration policies have contributed to the exploitation and misery at the border.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

0:20.0

I'm Emily Gisinski, Culture Editor here at the Federalist.

0:22.3

As always, you can email the show at radio at the Federalist.com, follow us on Twitter

0:26.1

at FDRLST, make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts as well.

0:30.8

Today I'm joined for a special edition of Federalist Radio Hour.

0:33.8

My colleague, senior editor, John Daniel Davidson, John Welcome.

0:38.1

Hi, Emily.

0:39.1

So we've been wanting to get this podcast together for, I would say, about a month since

0:43.2

we returned from our trip to the border in early June.

0:47.4

And because John, first of all, we took hours and hours of footage and audio and you reviewed

0:53.4

all of that to produce two excellent, widely circulated and I would also just say like

0:59.8

very moving dispatches from the trip.

1:04.0

And by the time we got all of that together, we got the trailer for the documentary we

1:06.9

were doing based on the trip out.

1:09.4

Here we are.

1:10.4

Now we just finished the documentary.

1:12.9

Yes.

1:13.9

The minor work of finishing the documentary.

1:16.5

Well, it's going to be called Cartel Country.

1:19.2

And I think, John, as we were batting around a title for that, Cartel Country seemed

1:24.2

appropriate because what the media coverage, so the media coverage of the border is already

1:30.4

just too little in general.

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