Dems at odds over support for asylum seekers

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says the city is struggling to support 110,000 migrants who have arrived there in the last year. He’s called for support from the federal government. Republicans have taken a victory lap as the Democratic mayor’s comments have caused a rift on the left. Will politics or policy win in the search for a solution?

A recently elected state Supreme Court judge in Wisconsin is being threatened with impeachment just a month after being sworn in. Republicans in the state legislature say that Justice Janet Protasiewicz should recuse herself from cases involving controversial congressional maps after she was critical of the issue during her campaign. Will calls for recusal or removal prevent an independent judiciary from doing its job?

Google and the Department of Justice are going head to head in an antitrust suit that began this week. Google says its dominance over the search engine market is earned. The government says not quite. Will they have trouble making their case?

Plus, hear another installment of our “Changed My Mind” audio essays that’s all about focusing on distraction.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Left Right and Center, I am David Greene, your host.
0:09.7	Sometimes you hear something and it's not all that surprising until you consider who
0:15.8	said it.
0:16.8	This is New York's mayor, Eric Adams, talking about migrants who have been arriving in
0:21.1	his city.
0:22.1	Adams is a Democrat.
0:23.6	Started with a mad man down in Texas, decided he wanted to bust people up to New York
0:28.7	City.
0:30.5	This issue will destroy New York City, destroy New York City.
0:37.7	We're getting 10,000 migrants a month.
0:44.0	One time we were just getting Venezuela, now we get Ecuador, now we get Russia speaking,
0:50.2	coming through Mexico, now we get West Africa, now we get people from all over the globe
0:56.2	have made their minds up, that they're going to come through the southern part of the
1:00.1	border and come into New York City.
1:03.5	Everyone is saying it's New York City's problem.
1:08.1	Every community in this city is going to be impacted.
1:11.2	We have a $12 billion deficit that we're going to have to cut.
1:17.5	Every service in this city is going to be impacted.
1:22.6	What in my life have I had a problem that I did not see in Indian too?
1:28.7	This issue will destroy New York City.
1:31.9	Those words from the mayor have brought a storm of criticism from progressives who say
1:36.7	that New York has always been a city welcoming to immigrants and that he should be able to handle
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