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Today in Focus

How the US border became a toxic issue for voters

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Oliver Laughland reports from southern Arizona, where the issue of immigrants crossing the border has become a controversial topic. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:02.0

Today a journey to America's southern border, where the debate around immigration has turned deadly. What's it over there?

0:23.5

Jeez, yummy?

0:25.0

It's always hard to resist temptation.

0:27.0

Why is it sitting on a wooden plank?

0:29.0

Especially when there's a tasty short-term yield on offer.

0:32.0

With that bit of wire on it.

0:33.5

But when it means sacrificing long-term growth,

0:36.0

but hey, it's cheese.

0:37.5

Those who do succumb,

0:38.5

gotta go for it,

0:40.0

end up regretting it.

0:42.0

Short-term temptation or yield with potential long-term growth.

0:46.0

The Scottish American Investment Company managed by Bailey Gifford,

0:49.0

capital at risk and income not guaranteed. This US presidential election just 15 days away now will be about a lot of things, but one of the big ones will be what is

1:04.2

happening on the US's southern border. Oliver Lachlan, Guardian US's

1:08.6

Southern Bureau Chief was recently there. We drove out we're only about half an hour outside of the city of Tucson, to this extraordinarily

1:17.1

arid part of the desert.

1:20.9

We hopped over some barbed wire fencing.

1:23.0

Very, very quickly you begin to realize just how inhospitable this landscape is.

1:29.0

We've walked about 300 yards and already doing 60 miles feels unfathomable to me. You just

1:42.0

realize that these journeys which take, you know, five or six days

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