For the latest episode of the Scroll podcast, Park MacDougald speaks with Andrew “Art” Arthur, the Resident Fellow in Law and Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies and a former immigration lawyer and immigration court judge. We discuss the nuts and bolts of U.S. immigration law, the roots of the current crisis at the southern border, and the Senate’s recent attempt to fix it, which Senate Republicans voted down on Wednesday.

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Supplementary reading for today’s episode:

“The Good—and a Lot of Bad—in the Senate Border ‘Deal,’” by Andrew R. Arthur

“Biden, the Senate, and the border fiasco,” by Byron York

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