Live From The 2018 Texas Tribune Festival -- The U.S. Relationship With Mexico

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🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In a special live panel co-hosted by Slate and the Texas Tribune, Leon Krauze talks to Roberta Jacobson and Antonio Garza, two former U.S. ambassadors to Mexico, about the history of the relationship between the two countries, immigration, and harmful effects of Trump’s nativism. Plus, why they never liked the term “Drug War.” This episode is brought to you by the following advertisers: SimpliSafe, protect your home today with twenty-four seven monitoring for just fifteen dollars a month, visit simplisafe.com/trumpcast. Express VPN, take back your Internet privacy today. Find out how you can get 3 months free at expressvpn.com/trumpcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Be my big hit down!
0:02.0	Be my big hit down!
0:04.0	Be my big hit down!
0:06.0	There are some pretty big issues to tackle here.
0:13.0	Immigration, I mean, Amlou wrote a book called,
0:16.0	All Yet Trump, that means, Listen Trump.
0:19.0	When the potential Democratic 2020 frontrunners are calling for the complete removal
0:23.0	and really axing of the immigration control program,
0:27.0	ICE, that's really night and day with wherever Republicans are.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, I'm Virginia Heffernan.
0:35.0	So it's challenging to overlook the go-to nativism of Trump's campaigning days
0:40.0	and not openly wonder how his legacy will affect diplomacy in the long term.
0:46.0	Leon Krause posed this issue to Roberta Jacobson and Antonio Garza,
0:51.0	two former US ambassadors to Mexico in a special panel co-hosted by Slate
0:56.0	and the Texas Tribune.
0:58.0	And both agreed that while it's troubling, the nativism is sadly not a new phenomenon.
1:04.0	Leon and the ambassadors dove deeper into the history of the two countries' relationship,
1:09.0	immigration, and why we shouldn't call our struggles with illegal narcotics and cartels,
1:14.0	a drug war.
1:16.0	Today we're giving the podcast to Leon's amazing conversation in Austin, Texas,
1:21.0	with Roberta Jacobson and Antonio Garza.
1:24.0	I would like to begin by asking you to describe the nature of the relationship
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