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Parsing Immigration Policy
Parsing Immigration Policy

A Firsthand Look at the Arizona-Mexico Border

View Podcast Archive Summary Earlier this week the CBP released its latest statistics on illegal migrants it “encountered” at the Southwest border. Nearly 2.2 million migrants have been caught in the first 12 full months of the Biden administration, in addition to 500,000 “got-aways”. This week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy focuses on the Tucson sector of the southwest border, a 232-mile stretch that receives the third highest number of apprehensions of the nine sectors of the southwest border. Leo Banks, a journalist in Arizona who has observed and researched border issues for decades, joins the podcast to talk about what he is seeing on the ground. Much of his conversation centers on the cartels – their wealth, fees, strategies, and their violence which is spilling over into the U.S. He describes “task saturation”, the strategy used by the cartels to occupy and distract the Border Patrol while they move their contraband across the border – both people and drugs. More than 95 percent of the fentanyl being sold in the U.S.
Host:
Mark Krikorian
Organization
Center for Immigration Studies