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Explain It to Me

With borders wide open

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Ezra returns from the wilds of book leave to talk about open borders with Dara and Matt. References and further reading: Dara's piece on the 1996 immigration bill "Trillion dollar bills on the sidewalk" white paper Bryan Caplan paper on open borders Ezra's interview with LA Mayor Eric Garcetti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Because I think that's so much of the problem here.

0:01.5

It's like, why people moving to Arizona to retire and being like,

0:04.1

oh my god, all of these brown people must be new here.

0:20.3

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds Only Vox Media Podcast Network.

0:24.4

I'm Matthew Glacias, we got Darrell Linn here.

0:26.6

And Ezra Klein is back.

0:28.6

Hello.

0:29.5

He is back.

0:30.5

When's the book coming up?

0:31.5

Oh, who knows?

0:32.5

You know, they say, I heard this from David Plott's once,

0:34.5

you're only ever 10% or 90% done with the book.

0:37.3

I'm definitely 10% done.

0:39.0

That is way more than I was before.

0:41.0

That's good.

0:42.0

That's good.

0:43.0

We are going to talk today about something a little off the news,

0:48.6

although in the ether.

0:51.0

And that is open borders.

0:53.4

This is a phrase that has come up a lot.

0:57.9

The Trump administration likes to frequently portray anyone

1:01.9

who criticizes any aspect of their approached immigration

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