Jonathan Blitzer, author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis, joins The Realignment. Jonathan and Marshall discuss the Central American origins of the border crisis, the origins and state of the asylum system, why the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations have struggled to "solve" the U.S.-Mexico border, and why we can expect future border showdowns for the foreseeable future.

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0:00 - Introduction
1:07 - Evolution of the immigration problem
3:59 - Centrist solutions to immigration
9:29 - Remain in Mexico
12:58 - Consensus about immigration
15:58 - What qualifies as asylum?
26:36 - 1980s immigration policy
32:55 - US foreign policy
39:28 - Investing in Central & South America
44:53 - Bussing
48:13 - Biden’s policy
54:26 - How will this end?