
Dexter Filkins on the Dilemma at the Border
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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The Chaos of the Immigration System
The system is overwhelmed, it's a series of gigantic bottlenecks. Once a person gets in the country They're in for a good decade because they can appeal their case And it'll sort of go on forever So nothing really works the way it was supposed to work Among the many people you talk to for this story There's the former Democratic mayor of Del Rio, Texas, Bruno Lozano Tell me about him and the phone call that he received while he was mayor from the border patrol chief What happened there? I think The city was completely overwhelmed, he couldn't deal with it Again, he's a Democrat, very angry at the Biden administration It feels like he was let down
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