Texas governor is worried that a pandemic era policy known as Title 42, which was resulting in the expulsion swiftly of tens of thousands of migrants who showed up at the border back to Mexico. The Biden administration did not terminate Title 42 because Texas and other Republican states sued to keep it in place. So many of the migrants who are crossing the border are still getting quickly deported. But there are still lots of people coming. And many of these people can't be swiftly deported. Because United States does not have diplomatic relations with Venezuela. Therefore, they cannot be sent back.
Last week, nearly 50 Venezuelan migrants showed up, without warning, on the wealthy island of Martha’s Vineyard.
Their arrival was the culmination of a monthslong strategy by two of the United States’ most conservative governors to lay the issue of undocumented immigration at Democrats’ doorstep.
How has this strategy played out and what has it meant for the migrants caught in the middle?
Guest: Miriam Jordan, a national correspondent covering immigration for The New York Times.
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