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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Friday, February 27th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

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of immigration reform.

That was President Obama at a town hall in Miami on Wednesday.

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