Florida Governor Ron DeSantis claims credit for sending two planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard unannounced. The move follows in the footsteps of GOP Governors Abbott and Ducey who began sending migrants to Washington, D.C., New York and Chicago to protest what they believe are Biden’s open border policies. The panel discusses the reacti ... Show More
Sep 18
GOP Lawmaker Breaks with Trump: Hispanic Voters “Feel Betrayed”
Republican advertisers have aired just 12 TV ads that mention Trump from September 1 to September 15, according to a CNN analysis of AdImpact data, to the tune of about $1 million. Those spots represent a fraction of more than 500 Republican ads produced during that period, total ... Show More
46m 43s
Sep 2022
How Border Politics Landed in Martha’s Vineyard
<p>Last week, nearly 50 Venezuelan migrants showed up, without warning, on the wealthy island of Martha’s Vineyard.</p><p>Their arrival was the culmination of a monthslong strategy by two of the United States’ most conservative governors to lay the issue of undocumented immigrati ... Show More
33m 15s
Sep 2022
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Hurricane Fiona threatens Bermuda, the charter company Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hired to move migrants to Martha’s Vineyard gave big money to the GOP, “Fat Leonard” is caught in Venezuela weeks after he cut off his GPS monitor and fled the U.S., a passenger punched a flight atte ... Show More
48m 34s
Sep 2022
“Bringing the border to Biden”
Texas and Arizona's governors are giving migrants bus tickets to the capital. The mayor of Washington, DC, says it’s causing a humanitarian crisis in the city — and that the White House isn’t helping.
This episode was reported and produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette ... Show More
26m 6s
Feb 2024
Biden, Trump, and the Border Crisis
This week, both President Biden and former president Trump will head to the US-Mexico border, underscoring just how central immigration policy has become to this year’s election. CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez covered immigration during the Trump administration and now covers the Biden ... Show More
33m 52s