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this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Border Patrol agents were gang-pressed into processing illegal immigrants into the country in these big centers, so they pull them off the line.

For long stretches of border were just simply

unguarded.

This is your host, Scott Bertram.

Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network.

That was Todd Benzman, fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, also author of

Overrun How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. history.

We'll hear from Todd in just a bit with in-depth reporting from his recent trip to the Darian Gap.

First on today's show, we're joined by Dr. Charles Steele. He is Associate Professor of Economics,

Herman A. and Suzanne S. Dettweiler Chair in Economics,

and Director of the Center for Commerce and Freedom at Hillsdale College. Dr. Steele, thanks for joining us.

Well, thank you, Scott. We talk mostly today about that last part, the Center for Commerce and Freedom,

which is relatively new here on campus. You can find more

at ccf.hillsdale.edu.edu. So tell us about the Center for Commerce and Freedom. What's the

purpose? What does the college feel the need to host something like this? Sure. I will tell you a

little bit about, first of all, what the mission of the Center for Commerce

and Freedom is.

And we at our department, economics, business and accounting, EBA, has a pretty distinctive

Hillsdale approach to teaching economics and business.

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