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Hello John. So we got a very peculiarly timed refugee crisis coming up from Central America's five to 7000 people marching from El Salvador and Honduras into Mexico about 2500 miles from the American border.

There was talk last week by Trump and others that maybe all of this was being paid for by left wing elements like George Soros in order to create a crisis in the United States.

I think more properly one couldn't think that maybe this crisis was engineered by Trump himself in order to give him a anti immigration boost in the two weeks before the November midterms.

Can anybody thinking about this caravan now 2500 miles away. See it as anything but an election positive for Trump and the Republicans.

No, it's as I was saying before it is exactly it is like the human embodiment of immigration hawks worse nightmare. It's what they it's what the

the the the the the the the the the the the the the immigration hawk thinks happens with our borders and migrants that doesn't actually happen in the real world. But now suddenly they're being proved you know a pressure or something.

I agree with Abe I think the only people or the only voters one could see this playing positively to our you know deeply deeply blue voters in you know places like Massachusetts and the city where we're sitting right now.

Massachusetts. Well, I don't think there's a girl that's a greater Boston you know think it broke.

Can't bridge is what you're right. Not that's out here.

You know stuff like that.

Brookline Brooklyn.

The we should specify though that this is not a probably a political act. They do this apparently this organization does this twice a year and they did this in April.

If it sounds familiar to you is because we've been here before doing this and it doesn't seem like they really care about the political.

I mean they want to make a political statement they want to affect political change and they are doing so in a way that is extremely reckless putting lives of danger.

But they're not doing this I think to advance democratic or Republican prospects or one way or the other you know they're just they're they're an issue advocacy group that do this in sort of a hostile and reckless fashion.

This is the wing of the of the global left it believes that borders and national sovereignty as such are illegitimate.

This is sort of the Amy Goodman left is the type of you know democracy now.

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