Mexico was the wall all along

Explain It to Me

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Education, News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Dara and Matt explain the situation at the border now that the caravan has finally arrived. References and further reading: Li Zhou explains the liberal blowback against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Vox’s piece on the shutdown negotiations The weird outlet mall at the border Dara’s article on the asylum bottleneck A New York Times piece on the current conditions in Tijuana The Washington Post breaks down the “Remain in Mexico” policy Dara outlines what we still don't know about “Remain in Mexico” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, so where do we want to start with this?
0:03.0	Um.
0:04.0	Um.
0:12.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:22.0	I'm Matthew Glacias here with Darryl Lind.
0:24.0	Jane is, I believe, on a train,
0:26.0	back from Emma's Massachusetts.
0:28.0	I'm looking forward to asking her if she went to Boino,
0:30.0	and you know, if not, um, please keep emailing me your thoughts.
0:35.0	Western Massachusetts burrito fans.
0:37.0	But, uh, there's a lot of Mueller news stuff happening,
0:41.0	but we're policy people.
0:43.0	Um.
0:44.0	This is one of those days where if we recorded a podcast about what's happening
0:48.0	in the Mueller investigation, it would probably be outdated by the time it hit your.
0:51.0	Who knows, we get a seven-ass at least.
0:53.0	Seven-ass at least at any moment.
0:55.0	So when last we podcasted about the caravan,
0:59.0	the caravan was quite distant from the U.S. border and appeared to have been
1:04.0	interjected into the discourse primarily for electioneering purposes.
1:09.0	Since that time, the election has happened.
1:11.0	Caravan talked quite a down, quite substantially,
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