Dispatches From the Border, Part 1

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 14 January 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

As the shutdown continues over the president’s demand for a border wall, Annie Brown from “The Daily” joined Azam Ahmed, a New York Times reporter, and Meridith Kohut, a photojournalist, on their endeavor to drive the entire length of the U.S.-Mexico border. Here’s what they saw on the first part of that journey. Guests: Annie Brown, a producer for “The Daily”; Azam Ahmed, the New York Times bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean; and Meridith Kohut, a photojournalist who covers Latin America. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	I'm going to read 1.3 miles and then we're going to test two-wheel drive X-Trail.
0:11.6	Asim when we took off last week for this trip, what was your thinking around it?
0:15.8	I'm going to get stuck in the sand, Mayor.
0:19.8	So last week amid the government shutdown, this crisis being discussed along the border,
0:26.6	the idea of $5 billion to build a wall, I just wanted to get to the border and see it.
0:31.8	I thought, what if we just drive the entire border from one side to the other in search
0:38.3	of just what we find?
0:40.9	Almost treat it like a character trying to understand its nature.
0:45.5	Okay, right now we are on the eastern edge of Texas, Boca Chica Beach.
0:53.8	It is where Texas comes to an end and if you drive south along the beach, you'll get
0:58.0	to where the Rio Grande feeds into the Gulf of Mexico, which is the end of the border.
1:03.8	And to do that you have to pick one end to start on and we essentially decided to start
1:07.3	on the easternmost edge at Boca Chica State Park.
1:10.3	A couple of fishermen?
1:14.4	This is where the Rio Grande dumps in.
1:18.4	As we were driving we were looking for some kind of designation that we'd reach the border
1:21.9	that we'd reach the end of the United States.
1:23.9	Oh, this is the border, this is the river, we're there.
1:28.9	I think...
1:29.9	But there's kind of nothing marking it.
1:32.9	Generally, yeah, this is where the Rio Grande feeds in.
1:36.9	Yeah, this is it.
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