Over the Borderline: An Introduction.

Unf*cking The Republic

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Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

This is the brief introduction to our series “Over the Borderline” where we update our reporting on immigration and the border crisis to examine the myriad moving parts of this hot button topic. The series kicks off this weekend with a look at the current crisis facing New York City with busloads of migrants continually flowing into the city on a daily basis and stretching city services to their limits. Then we’ll head south of the border to examine the root causes of mass migration from economic and political perspectives. In this introduction we set the table for the discussion going forward and speak to the highly charged political nature of immigration and how it’s playing out in the presidential election cycle.

Resources

U.S. Government Accountability Office: U.S. Immigration Courts See a Significant and Growing Backlog

Associated Press: With beds scarce and winter bearing down, a tent camp grows outside NYC’s largest migrant shelter

UNFTR Episode Resources

Immigration Nation: A Crisis of Our Own Design.

Quickie: Fox in the Outhouse. Invasion, Immigration & Inflation.

The Washington Consensus: Consensus is not consent.

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0:00.0	I believe in America.
0:04.0	Build that war, build that war, build that wall, build that wall, build that wall, build that wall, build that war, build that war, build that war.
0:16.0	This bill says simply that from this day forward, those wishing to immigrate to America
0:23.6	shall be admitted on the basis of their skills and their close relationships to those already
0:30.6	here.
0:31.6	Those who become American citizens love this country even more, and that's why the Statue of
0:36.6	Liberty lifts her land to welcome them to the Golden Door.
0:41.3	It is bold men and women, yearning for freedom and opportunity who leave their homelands
0:47.3	and come to a new country to start their lives over.
0:50.3	They believe in the American dream, and over and over they make it come true for themselves,
0:55.0	for their children, and for others.
0:58.0	They give more than they receive, they labor and succeed, and often they are entrepreneurs.
1:04.0	But their greatest contribution is more than economic, because they understand in a special way how glorious it is to be an American.
1:13.6	They renew our pride and gratitude in the United States of America, the greatest, freest nation in the world,
1:20.6	the last best hope of man on earth.
1:23.6	All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected, but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country.
1:34.3	America needs to secure our borders, and with your help, my administration is taking steps to do so for increasing work site enforcement,
1:42.3	deploying fences and advanced technologies to stop illegal crossings.
1:46.0	We've effectively ended the policy of catch and release at the border,
1:50.0	and by the end of this year we will have doubled the number of border patrol agents.
1:55.0	Yet we also need to acknowledge that we will never fully secure our border until we create a lawful way for foreign workers
2:02.9	to come here and support our economy.
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