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The Take: Why the Texas border crisis is sparking a political showdown

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott is testing how far he can go to restrict immigration across the United States border with Mexico. His policies have led to a standoff with President Joe Biden’s administration and the US Supreme Court, and that’s playing out in the small border town of Eagle Pass, Texas. So what does it mean for migrants caught between razor wire and the Rio Grande?

In this episode: 

Heidi Zhou-Castro (@HeidiZhouCastro), Al Jazeera correspondent

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Sonia Bhagat and Miranda Lin with our host, Malika Bilal. Sarí el-Khalili fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik, and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.

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