Five Things You Need to Know About the Border Crisis

Topics Discussed:

1. There is a legitimate rise in people seeking to cross the border both illegally and legally, but we are not at record levels of immigration. (02:33)

2. The Northern Triangle (08:33)

3. For most of our history, border deportations were pretty informal if not absent. (14:20)

4. The Trump administration does not believe the U.S. should welcome the persecuted or oppressed. (18:57)

5. Increased migration to the US is part of an international trend -- this could be the new normal. (23:51)

Referenced:

• Our 2016 primer on immigration

• General Chapman's Last Stand (Revisionist History with Malcolm Gladwell)

• Let Me Count the Ways (This American Life)

• Radiolab Border Trilogy

Pantsuit Politics in the Wild:

• Nuance Nation Tour tickets

• Evolving Faith (October 4-5)

• Ideas at Work (October 16)

• Blissdom (November 14-16)

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Episode Resources:

• Trump scores partial win on asylum ban as court narrows injunction (Politico)

• Thousands of asylum-seekers left waiting at the US-Mexico border (PRI)

• Trump officials pressing to slash refugee admissions to zero next year (Politico)

• New Border Apprehension Numbers Show Brutal Effect of ‘Metering’ at Ports of Entry (WOLA)

• Central America’s Violent Northern Triangle (Council on Foreign Relations)

• The border is in crisis. Here’s how it got this bad. (Vox)

• Credible Fear (Marie Claire)

• Why border crossings are at an 11-year high, explained in 500 words (Vox)

• Claims of Fear (U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

• Southwest Border Migration FY 2019 (U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

• What’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border in 6 charts (Pew Research Center)

• Is there a crisis on the US-Mexico border? (BBC)

• Six charts on the immigrants who call the US home (BBC)

• Asylum Decisions and Denials Jump in 2018 (TRAC Immigration)

• 56,000 cases put on fast-track in US immigration courts (PBS News Hour)

• Central American Migration: Root Causes and U.S. Policy (Congressional Research Service)

• The US Border Crisis Is Just The Tip Of An International Problem (WGBH)

• The climate crisis, migration, and refugees (Brookings)