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May 2023
32m 42s

Biden Administration's New Border Rules

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Immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the situation at the border and in sanctuary cities since the end of Title 42. Election law expert Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School discusses the Supreme Court taking a case to review a voting map in South Carolina after a lower court found the GOP legislature engaged in unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. June Grasso hosts. 

 

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