Lever Alejos, the Venezuelan man who took that bus ride to Washington, D.C., is still on Washington. Lever has found a job working at concession stands, soccer games, football games. He's sending money home to his seven year old son. And he plans to move out of the shelter where he has been living since I met him in July.
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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