The Migrant Crisis On The Border And The Hill

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🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The stream of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border hit record numbers at the end of 2023. The stream of illegal border crossing has slowed, but could a lack of agreement on immigration policy issues be a factor in a partial government shutdown next week?

This episode: political correspondent Ashley Lopez, congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh, and immigration correspondent Jasmine Garsd.

Our producers are Casey Morell & Kelli Wessinger. Our editor is Erica Morrison. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.

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0:16.0	Hi, this is Charlotte and Nate from San Francisco California.
0:21.0	We're enjoying a pint at the highest pub in Africa.
0:23.7	Tomorrow we'll tackle Sandy Pass as we drive across the border from the
0:27.1	suitu into South Africa. This podcast was recorded at 1.37 PM Eastern Time on Thursday, January 11th, 2024.
0:36.0	Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but hopefully we will have
0:40.0	successfully navigated the harrowing 4,300 foot descent into South Africa to leave this
0:46.1	beautiful kingdom in the sky and continue our honeymoon.
0:50.1	Cheers!
0:51.1	Oh wow, sounds like an awesome trip.
0:56.6	A very active honeymoon.
0:59.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
1:01.3	I'm Ashley Lopez, I cover politics. And I'm Deirder Walsh I cover Congress and today we're joined by NPR's immigration reporter Jasmine Garz. Jasmine welcome back to the podcast.
1:10.5	Hi so glad to be back.
1:12.8	Migrants are crossing the southwest border in high numbers.
1:15.9	In December, border authorities reported 225,000 encounters
1:20.5	with migrants at the US-Mexico border.
1:23.1	And House Republicans are blaming the Biden administration
1:26.3	for the influx of migrants and targeting Homeland Security
1:29.8	Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
1:31.9	Wednesday, they began the process to impeach the secretary.
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