The Governor of Texas Is Using Desperate Migrants as Political Tools

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The White House says there is a process in place to manage migrants at the border. But it's really been the mayors of D.C. and New York City who've gotten into a public war of words with Abbott, writes CNN's John Sutter. "We are not responsible for a broken immigration system," he adds.

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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