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Climate Change Meets The U.S. Border Crisis

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

León Krauze talks to the New Yorker’s Jonathan Blitzer about how climate change deepens the U.S. border crisis, stories of Central American migration, and the tremendous spiraling debt that is taken on to embark on this dangerous journey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

California is always saying, oh, we want more people.

0:03.6

And they want more people in their sanctuary cities.

0:05.8

Well, we'll give them more people.

0:07.2

We can give them a lot.

0:08.0

We can give them an unlimited supply.

0:10.8

And let's see if they're so happy.

0:12.2

They say, we have open arms.

0:13.7

They're always saying they have open arms.

0:15.0

Let's see if they have open arms.

0:18.6

We're going to do everything we can to make sure

0:20.6

that people who come to the city, whatever those immigration

0:24.4

statuses, are going to be treated fairly and with respect.

0:27.9

The more Trump complains about illegal immigrants,

0:30.7

the worse the problem gets.

0:32.3

Because some experts say that migrants

0:34.2

are choosing to make the crossing now,

0:36.6

because they fear that Trump's tough policies

0:38.8

will make it harder to get across later.

0:44.4

Hello, welcome to Trumpcast, I'm Leon Krause,

0:46.4

from Los Angeles, California.

0:48.7

Let me begin today with a personal story.

0:50.9

I went back to Mexico over spring break.

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