Political Strategies Surrounding Immigration Issues in the Midterms

For more than a year, immigration activists have been frustrated that the White House has used the pandemic as a reason to turn away hundreds of thousands of migrants before they can make a request for asylum in the United States.

Now, pressure created by the three million Ukrainian refugees could create enough political pressure to force Biden to revisit the policy.

This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, and correspondent Joel Rose.

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