The Border Is a Top Campaign Issue. It’s Also Their Home.

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The New York Times

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This year, Democrats and Republicans are both fighting to convince voters that their party alone can fix what both parties say is a big problem: the Southern border. And public sentiment on the issue is shifting. According to Gallup, 55 percent of Americans want to curb immigration, the highest recorded total since 2001. With that in mind, we wanted to talk with people who actually live and work near the border. So we traveled to El Paso, with Jazmine Ulloa, a Times politics reporter who grew up there. For this week’s show: a conversation on the border about the border, and what people there make of the shifting politics in the battle over their backyard.

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0:00.0	Do we just go down to the front? Yeah, just go you can you can just go straight. Okay. You see like way way over there
0:08.8	over there. Over the weekend I found myself on the side of a mountain with my colleagues Alyssa, Anna, and
0:15.8	Jasmine.
0:16.8	We got really high up really quick.
0:18.6	Yeah, no, no.
0:20.1	I'm like...
0:21.1	More specifically, the Franklin Mountains in El Paso, Texas climbing up a snaking road to a scenic overlook.
0:30.0	So it's like a tourist area, but like we would come out here and just hang out like on on weekdays.
0:36.0	Jasmine Yoa is a national politics reporter at the times.
0:40.0	She travels all over the country talking politics,
0:43.1	but she knows this little corner of Texas, extremely well.
0:46.6	Quinciennieres come here to take photos and just hang out.
0:49.7	I came here with all my chambelanes and vamas and we like took photos and just hung out hang out of
0:56.0	course dates high school dates you know the whole nine.
0:59.4	Jasmine grew up in El Paso and she took us to this overlook because it's one of the best views in the city.
1:06.0	Wow.
1:09.0	Not only to see El Paso, but to see the US-Mexico border itself and the city across the border
1:15.8	see you dad Juarez. So there's interstate 10 that leads all the way to Los Angeles
1:21.1	and then there's a and then there's the border highway right behind it and
1:25.1	and it follows the river all the way to the Franklin Mountains and that would be the border.
1:34.0	We're here because the southern border and immigration are a huge issue in the
1:39.2	2024 election and unlike the last two presidential elections, but that's basically meant
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