Checks and Balance: Bordering on chaos
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🗓️ 21 October 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
So far this year officials at the southern border have encountered over two million people trying to enter America. The actual number crossing is likely to be much higher. Two thousand miles north, New York’s mayor has declared a state of emergency. 20,000 migrants have arrived in the city, bused there by politicians further south. Is there a solution to this intractable problem? And will immigration lose Democrats votes in the midterms?
The Economist’s Alexandra Suich Bass assesses the problems at the border. We go back to a surprisingly pro-immigration president. And The Economist’s Jon Fasman speaks to asylum-seekers in New York.
John Prideaux hosts with Charlotte Howard and Idrees Kahloon.
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| 0:32.2 | Charles Gibbs first found his sea legs at 15. |
| 0:40.6 | He spent two years as a midshipman on a gunboat under the command of his father, a captain |
| 0:45.5 | in the US Navy. |
| 0:48.0 | But naval discipline was not for him, and Gibbs soon fell into a life of pirating. |
| 0:54.5 | During a decade of villainy on the high seas, he claimed to have murdered over 400 people. |
| 1:01.0 | But in 1830, his pirating days came to a swift end when he was arrested, taken to New |
| 1:06.3 | York and executed on Jibbit Island. |
| 1:10.3 | A Jibbit was the post that criminals bodies were hung from after execution as a warning |
| 1:14.8 | to others. |
| 1:15.8 | A New Yorkers had nicknamed the island after the gruesome structure. |
| 1:20.7 | But it had once had a different name, one it reverted to after the hanging stopped in 1839. |
| 1:27.3 | Ellis Island Half a century later, the first migrants landed |
| 1:31.9 | on the island after traveling across the Atlantic in search of the American Dream. |
| 1:37.8 | So far this year, over 2 million people following that same dream had entered further south |
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