Checks and Balance: Border disorder?

Checks and Balance from The Economist

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🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

With the lifting of Title 42, America is once again forced to consider its border policy, just as Democrat-run cities struggle to find shelter for busloads of migrants sent north from the US-Mexico border. What responsibilities do states and cities far from the border have? And with Congress frozen, what can President Biden actually do?

Doris Meissner of the Migration Policy Institute talks through the dilemmas facing the Biden administration and Rosemarie Ward reports from the town of Newburgh, where migrants are being sent from New York City shelters.

John Prideaux hosts with Charlotte Howard and Idrees Kahloon.

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0:00.0	In 1940, Adolf Hitler saw the film The Grapes of Roth. He concluded, according to the
0:10.1	economist, that the Americans had destroyed their sturdy farmer class and hence could not
0:15.6	fight a real war. He was wrong. War time brought employment, conscription, and increased
0:22.1	prosperity to the real-life jodes who'd left the Dust Bowl for California. New migrants
0:27.6	were brought in to take their place, many of them from Mexico. But the border wasn't
0:32.5	simply open. It was at that time that authorities also gained new powers to expel people from
0:38.1	countries with infectious diseases. This was intended to ensure that the expected wave
0:43.3	of migration after peace wouldn't bring a new wave of death. Those powers stuck around.
0:50.1	Title 42 was now on the books.
0:53.6	I'm John Prado and this is Chex and Balance from the Economist.
0:57.5	Each week we take one big theme, shaping American politics, and explore it in depth.
1:04.5	Today, can Joe Biden's administration solve the border puzzle?
1:17.9	Last week, the latest enactment of Title 42 finally expired. Dusted off by the Trump administration
1:33.9	in 2020 to reduce the spread of COVID-19 across America's southern border was then kept
1:39.2	in place by President Biden. Now America is once again forced to consider its border
1:45.0	policy. What responsibilities the states and cities far away from the border have? And
1:51.4	with Congress frozen, what can the President actually do?
2:09.2	With me this week to talk about the border and to talk about the politics of immigration
2:13.1	in America are Charlotte Howard in New York and Idris Calune. This week coming to us from
2:18.7	London opposite the table for me. Idris, I'm going to ask you what's going on and you
2:23.0	can't reply with your usual weather report about Washington DC. You're going to have to say
2:26.5	something else. How are you? But I can because when I arrived, everyone said that I brought
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