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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The Migrant Caravan Reaches the U.S.-Mexico Border

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Politics, Washington, News, Obama, Wnyc, President, Lizza, Barack, Wickenden

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In the run-up to the 2016 midterm elections, President Trump spoke frequently about the threat posed by the “migrant caravan,” a group of Central and South American migrants travelling through Mexico toward the U.S. border. In the past two weeks, the caravan has arrived in the Mexican border city of Tijuana. On Sunday, U.S. border agents deployed tear gas on a group of migrants attempting to cross the border, including a number of children. Reporting from Tijuana, Jonathan Blitzer speaks to David Rohde about the situation at the border and about how the Trump Administration is reshaping American immigration law.

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

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It's Friday, November 30th. I'm David Rode, the executive editor for News at New Yorker.com, filling in for Dorothy Wicenden.

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Over the past two weeks, thousands of migrants from Central America have arrived in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, hoping to be granted asylum in the United States.

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On Monday, at a campaign rally in Biloxi, Mississippi, President Trump scorned the arriving migrants as criminals.

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Republicans are committed to halting this incursion and defending the sovereign borders

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of the United States.

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We are sending a simple message to the lawless caravans and to the illegal trespasses

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marching toward our border.

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It's very simple.

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Turn back now, go back home.

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