The Biden Administration's New Immigration Policies Are an Attempt to Use Technology to Facilitate Illegal Pathway Into the Country

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Lauren Viagran: It feels like we're in this moment where President Biden is really struggling to come up with functional policy. She says people are crossing through a deep and heavy current of the Rio Grande, climbing over a 30 foot border wall. "I think it remains to be seen whether the Biden administration's new policies will work," she says.

Title 42, a Covid-era policy that included strict limits on migration into the US from Mexico, has expired. El Paso Times reporter Lauren Villagran explains what that means for both the border communities and the far-flung cities feeling the brunt of border politics.

This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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