Covid-19 and the border

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Dara, Jane, and Matt on the intersection between the pandemic and Trump's border crackdown, and a white paper about happiness. Resources: "It’s Impossible to “Distance” in ICE Detention. Doctors Say Free All Detainees." by Jack Herrera, Truthout "How ice operations in New York set the stage for a coronavirus nightmare in local jails" by Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept "Leaked Border Patrol Memo Tells Agents to Send Migrants Back Immediately — Ignoring Asylum Law" by Dara Lind, ProPublica "The Real Roots of Midlife Crisis" by Jonathan Rauch, The Atlantic "Why Elders Smile" by David Brooks, NYTimes White Paper Hosts: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, Vox Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, Vox Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica The Weeds is produced and edited by Jeff Geld More to explore: Subscribe to Impeachment, Explained on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or your favorite podcast app to get stay updated on this story every week. 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	Jim sir, they're falling down on the job here in terms of producing reliable.
0:06.9	It's been a long standing criticism in the academic community that chimpanzees really
0:11.0	aren't doing enough.
0:18.4	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:29.8	I'm Matthew Iglesias with Jane Kostin, ProPublica's Darryl Lind.
0:33.9	We got another non-coronavirus white paper for you that still manages to not be happy
0:39.8	fun times.
0:40.8	No, it should really come up with more optimistic white paper.
0:43.4	It's not a blifty.
0:44.4	That's been a big lacking.
0:45.6	But it's different.
0:47.6	But you know, I'm going to talk about the virus in our main segment.
0:50.9	I really wanted to ask Darry to sort of explain to us what is going on at the border with
0:58.3	coronavirus.
0:59.3	Obviously, the US-Mexico border has not, like in a practical sense, been an important
1:06.3	coronavirus hotspot, but all countries around the world have been sort of cracking down
1:12.0	on travel, hardening borders and stuff in response to this.
1:15.8	And in Donald Trump's case, this is an aspiration he has long had is to do a big border crackdown.
1:23.8	And so what's happening there?
1:25.6	Right.
1:26.6	I think it's important to know both kind of his context for what we're about to be talking
1:32.3	about and just kind of generally as people start to think about, you know, the kind of
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