Texas governor says border towns and cities are overburdened by the arrival of migrants. There have been about 1.9 million encounters at the US-Mexico border this year. Many of them include repeated attempts to migrate, sometimes by the same people. Noelle King: Is the situation at the border today really any different than the one we've seen for years or decades?
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, fact-checked by Victoria Dominguez and Serena Solin, engineered by Efim Shapiro and Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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