By early August, Abbott delivered more than 6200 migrants from the southern border to the nation's capital. But Hamlet didn't stop there: He started sending buses to New York City too. "If you're governor Abbott and you wanted to make Texas's problem, Washington's problem, it seems like he has in many ways succeeded," says CNN's John Sutter.
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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