Border Politics

News & Observations

Tuesday, February 6, 2024 - 8 minutes

As a major bipartisan border deal and foreign aid package appears on track to fail in the Senate one day after its release, it seems apparent that s broken immigration system has become too politically profitable for both parties to solve. If you solve it, you can’t run on it, fundraise off of it, fearmonger on it. Woody Guthrie's 1948 song "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" shows how little has changed in the American immigration debate. Seventy-six years later, the issue of immigration still revolves around politics, with scant attention to the real people involved.

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