US immigration policy is complicated. And when Republican Govs. Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis chartered buses and planes to relocate migrants to “blue cities,” it raised a ton of legal questions. But it also ignited the age-old question about our immigration system: Why is it so complicated? Weeds veteran Dara Lind (@DLind) explains.
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Why Ron DeSantis is baiting Biden on the border
Opinion | Ron DeSantis Is Making an Asylum Crisis of His Own
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