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The Actual State of the Union

The American Mind

CHAPTER

What the Hell Are We Doing?

Sally Kohn: Busing migrants was a partisan lightning rod. Here's why Democrats have embraced it. The number of monthly migrant encounters had fallen to 16,182 under Trump in 2018 and the second lowest total in more than 20 years in April 2020. But if you look at their graph, it's been low sort of throughout 16 through 18. And then encounters with migrants at the US Mexico border have soared since then with 206,239 reported in November 2022. So to call this a crisis is a rolling crisis. This is all papeering over the fact that Arizona is Governor Katie Hobbs and some Democrat leaders in Texas are basically just having to cry uncle because we're there are

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