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The Border Crisis Won't Be Solved at the Border
Texas politicians have no interest in actually solving the border crisis, which would require devastating the state's economy.
Stuck with the need to show their base that they’re cracking down on migrants, politicians, including Abbott, have instead found a middle ground: They keep up their bombast regarding the border, but they avoid stringing any razor wire between undocumented immigrants and jobs in the state’s interior. In February, I met Marek in Houston, in the ornate Mediterranean Revival building that hosts the Baker Institute, the public policy center on Rice University’s campus that became something of a retirement home for officials from the first Bush administration. Photograph by Jordan VonderhaarA critical shortage of construction workers is simultaneously hobbling Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
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