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Immigration expert Jonathan Blitzer

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

It’s déjà vu for US lawmakers, who failed yet again this week to agree on a solution to the country’s immigration crisis. But beyond the politics are countless human stories, as the number of unauthorized immigrants crossing the border keeps reaching record highs, and a backlog of cases in US immigration courts passes three million. If this week’s deal had passed in Congress, it would have been one of the most significant changes to US immigration policy in decades, evidence of just how long the issue has remained a stubborn political challenge. Jonathan Blitzer has covered the issue for years, and he joins the program.  Also on today's show: Nina Khrushcheva, Professor of International Affairs; journalist/author Calvin Trillin  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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18 plus, T's and C's apply, exchange fees and fair usage limits apply. Hello everyone and welcome to Amunduor. Here's what's coming up. The only reason the border is not secure is Donald Trump and his Maggie Republican friends.

0:47.0

After a bipartisan immigration deal is blocked in the Senate,

0:51.0

where does it leave a system at breaking point?

0:53.4

I ask Jonathan Blitzer, who reports on the human lives at stake.

0:57.8

Then, as Ukraine funding also falls victim to Washington dysfunction, we take a look at Putin standing inside Russia with historian Nina Khrushchev.

1:08.5

Plus, we rarely get to see how powerful journalism can be when it actually is doing what we wanted to do.

1:16.0

A reminder of the impact of investigative journalism.

1:19.0

We look back at Christian's conversation on the film's spotlight

1:22.8

with its director, Tom McCarthy, and star Mark Ruffalo.

1:26.6

Also ahead, dispatches from a life in the press.

1:29.8

Journalist Calvin Trillin with stories

1:31.7

for more than 60 years of reporting.

1:34.4

He shares them with Walter Isakson. Welcome everyone. I'm Audi Cornish in Washington DC sitting in for

1:57.8

Christiane Amanpour. Well it's deja vu for U.S. lawmakers who failed yet

2:02.1

again this week to agree on a solution to the country's

2:05.0

immigration crisis.

2:06.6

This time security provisions designed to draw bipartisan support ended up backfiring, with

2:11.8

former President Donald Trump turning the tide against it.

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