How Trump closed the border

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Rep. Veronica Escobar joins Jane, Dara, and Matt to talk about Texas politics and the use of the pandemic as a pretext to clamp down on asylum. Guest: Rep. Veronica Escobar (@RepEscobar) US Congresswoman from Texas' 16th Congressional District Hosts: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, Vox Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, Vox Meredith Haggerty (@manymanywords), Deputy Editor, The Goods Credits: Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts 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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1:30.0	Hey folks, got a bit of a special episode for you today.
1:33.0	Every fall for the past several years, the weeds has been going to the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin doing a special live episode there.
1:41.0	This year, of course, there is no such live festival for us to go to, but the festival has still been happening virtually.
1:47.0	We're really excited to participate.
1:49.0	What we have for you is a group interview with representative Veronica Escobar.
1:53.0	She represents district based in El Paso, Texas, around the border.
1:57.0	We were able to talk with her about the impact of the COVID pandemic on the Latino community, about the situation at the border right now, about the political future of Texas.
2:07.0	A lot of really fascinating, interesting issues.
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2:12.0	And so here it is, I think you're going to like this interview.
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