Erin I feel like I'm getting deja vu. There's a big crisis at the southern border,

voters are freaking out.

Everything about life in Texas cities has been changed by this crisis.

There are wrenching photos of families stuck in terrible conditions.

Hundreds and hundreds of migrant men and families huddling around campfires or sleeping next to the border wall.

Politicians are grandstanding about getting even harsher.

They're poisoning the blood of our country.

That's what they've done.

All of which feels like something that has been happening every couple of years for like my entire life?

Yeah, sometimes I turn on the news and I feel like I'm watching a rerun of the same crisis happening over and over again.

It's like the ground got here a policy failures and it has an measurable human toll

I'm Max Fisher and I'm Aaron Ryan and this is how we got here a new what a day series

where Max and I explore a big question behind this week's headlines and tell a story

that answers that question. And our question this week why does it always feel like the southern border is in this crisis that never actually gets solved?

And the story that we think points us toward the answer is about a very famous highway sign, maybe the most controversial highway sign in American history.

So part of how the show is going to work is we are going to divide our big question into three smaller

questions and the first is what do we actually

mean by border crisis. Okay so to answer this the highway sign Aaron do you

remember the notorious so-called immigrant crossing signs?

These big yellow highway signs but it was an outline of a family running and

they were dragging a little girl. It was very dramatic for a highway sign. I feel like anyone who was in

California in the 90s will remember it. If you haven't seen it Google it you were

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