What’s Biden Doing with the Border?
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Joe Biden’s new executive order severely limits migrants from seeking asylum at the border. It’s a far cry from his campaign rhetoric and the New York Times called it the most restrictive immigration policy issued by any modern Democrat. What is he trying to accomplish?
Guest: Jonathan Blitzer, staff writer for the New Yorker and author of “Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America and the Making of a Crisis.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Slate |
| 0:02.0 | Hey Slate listeners, I'm Christina Kauterucci, |
| 0:05.0 | the host of Sloburn Gays Against Briggs. |
| 0:08.0 | I want to tell you about a special event we're doing |
| 0:10.0 | at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on June 13th. |
| 0:14.2 | To celebrate this new season of Sloburn and Pride Month, we're hosting an exclusive live |
| 0:18.8 | taping of the show with special guests, including Civil Rights Activ activist and Black Lives Matter organizer |
| 0:24.1 | De Ray McKesson, comedian and singer Esther Falick, Eric Marcus, the host of |
| 0:29.0 | Making Gay History, and Sam Fader, director of the Netflix documentary disclosure about the depiction of |
| 0:35.0 | trans people in film and television. We'll dive deeper into this season and talk about |
| 0:39.6 | the lasting impact of the Briggs Initiative and the continued fight over LGBT |
| 0:43.6 | rights and schools. It'll be the perfect way to celebrate Pride Month this June |
| 0:47.8 | with LGBT-Q stories and voices across generations. Again, that's June 13th at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. |
| 0:56.0 | You can get tickets now at Tribeca Film.com slash Sloburn. |
| 1:00.0 | Hope to see you there. If there's one |
| 1:05.0 | if there's one |
| 1:10.0 | if there's one complaint we've heard over and over about the 2024 presidential election, |
| 1:15.0 | it's that it's more of the same. |
| 1:18.0 | Same Biden, same Trump, same positions, give or take an overseas war or criminal conviction. |
| 1:25.0 | But when you look back to the 2020 race, there's one pretty major difference. |
| 1:30.0 | I would in fact make sure that there is we immediately surge to the border. |
| 1:36.9 | All those people are seeking asylum. |
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