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Why Our Border Is Broken

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Government, Politics

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Sarah and David dive deep into the state of immigration law and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's legal battle with the Biden administration. The Agenda: —Amicus briefs for funsies —The asylum system problem —How to fix the crisis at the border —The border deal in the Senate —Civil War cosplay —National Guard and Texit detour —Football vs. politics redux Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You ready?

0:02.0

I was born ready. Welcome to Advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isker, that's David French, and David, we're going to spend most of our time today doing a deep dive on immigration law.

0:28.5

Yeah, I'm actually excited about this because I hope we're going to be able to clear up a bunch of

0:34.4

misconceptions and I know that virtually no one's going to be happy about this conversation.

0:40.5

Yeah, no, literally no one. Before we do, a little legal chit-chat at the top.

0:45.0

First off, the amicus briefs have been pouring in in that Colorado 14th Amendment case pending at the Supreme Court. The top side, and that's literally meaning, you know, where it's like A versus B, so A is the top and B is the bottom.

1:01.0

So the top side briefs were all due that's including people

1:05.4

who support Trump or are neutral and David 49 amicus briefs.

1:13.4

Oh, you should see my inbox, Sarah.

1:17.0

Do you have amicus briefs coming in?

1:19.0

I have amicus briefs flowing into the old inbox.

1:22.9

Check this one out.

1:23.8

Check this one out.

1:25.8

So I have a list to read, but I've been,

1:29.7

I have only read one of the amicus brief so far. I've got a list though. I'm going to read more.

1:36.8

You're going to read more. I mean, some of them have been interesting, I suppose.

1:43.0

Yeah, I mean, look, everyone from the League of Sportsman

1:46.1

to Ryan Binkley 2024 presidential campaign

1:49.4

is getting in on the action.

1:50.9

So, yeah, future episode. Look, we're not going to read all 49 of the top

1:55.1

side and however many dozen are going to come in on the bottom side in favor of

1:58.7

Colorado but we're gonna skim a lot of them and see if there's anything interesting out there.

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