Miriam, a sheriff in Texas announced he had opened a criminal investigation into the flight that took migrants from San Antonio to Martha's Vineyard. A grand jury has indicted 44 people in Minnesota on charges that they defrauded federal programs designed to feed poor children during the pandemic. And Russia says that four Ukrainian regions occupied wholly or in part by its troops would hold referendums on joining Russia in the coming days.
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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