Nick Miroff On The Fentanyl And Border Crises

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Andrew Sullivan

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🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Back for a second pod appearance, Nick is a reporter at the Washington Post covering immigration and DHS, and before that he was a foreign correspondent based in Mexico City and Havana. This time we discuss not just the unending border crisis but the spiraling fentanyl emergency, which Nick and his colleagues just covered in a must-read seven-part investigation. I know few people as honest and transparent as Nick on what’s actually happening at the border.

For two clips of our convo — on how the Biden administration is erasing the meaning of asylum, and how fentanyl should be seen foremost as a poison — pop over to our YouTube page. Other topics: the overwhelmed court system, Title 42, the polarized and paralyzed Congress, the thankless role of Mayorkas, Obama’s record on immigration, Trump’s damage, the ineptitude of Kamala Harris, the effect of social media on migrants, many mind-blowing facts about fentanyl, its contamination in other drugs, Big Pharma, and what parents should tell their children.

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0:00.0	Thank you.
0:03.0	I'm not dead. Life is good.
0:34.4	Just struggled through another sinus infection.
0:37.8	Jesus, Lord, it's like I was just saying to Chris this week.
0:41.1	It's like, what disease do I have this week?
0:43.7	I'm actually doing all right.
0:45.0	It's just been a pneumonia is hard thing to get over and I'm doing fine, actually.
0:49.0	Fine.
0:49.3	I've had a lovely Christmas.
0:50.4	I hope you all did too.
0:52.2	I just sat around and smoked a certain amount of marijuana and
0:55.2	watched a large amount of Netflix and streaming. I now feel much more familiar with every aspect
1:01.4	of the Star Wars story than I ever did before. It's not bad, actually. And Orr was really interesting
1:07.2	and fun and Obi-Wan Kenobi's, too. And little baby Yoda, Yoda,
1:11.7	Yoda, Yodergo, I think his name is Grogo, Grogo, Grogo, Grugo, believably adorbs. We're all down
1:20.0	with Grugo in his wide eyes. And we have also a great lineup coming up. We have, among
1:27.2	others, Glenn Lowry. We have Rod Dre great lineup coming up. We have among others, Glenn Lowry.
1:28.3	We have Rod Dreher finally coming on for a big heart-to-heart, which should be more than a little interesting, I hope.
1:36.6	And we have...
1:37.7	And John Gray.
1:40.4	Anyway, John Gray, the great British political philosopher, one of the most
1:45.2	original minds in the West right now, I would say, and I'm incredibly psyched to have it.
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