Hilary McGann
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5 recordings
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3 Sep
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and some of his supporters.
I want to talk about the deterrent that this has been to people trying to get into the country.
So in February, Pew Research said that migrant encounters at the US-Mexico border were at their lowest levels in more than 50 years, going back to 1970.
To put that into context, in the fiscal year up to September 2025, there were 237,000 encounters at the US-Mexico border.
To contextualise that, if you go the year prior, at the last year of the Biden administration, it was 1.5 million.
The year before that, closer to 2 million.
Oh, absolutely.
And the short answer is he's still in hospital.
But first off, I think it is helpful to talk about who Mitch McConnell is because it gets to the heart of why this is so significant.
So he's an 84 year old senator from Kentucky.
That's a state you don't really hear about all too often in U.S.
news.
But to be clear, McConnell is one of the most powerful lawmakers in the U.S.
He was the longest serving leader of the Senate Republicans in U.S.
history.
And there are huge concerns, as you say, about his health.
his health right now and a lot of unanswered questions because he's in the hospital for about three weeks, close to a month.
And there's been very little information provided to the public in that time.
As you say, he was admitted to hospital on June 14th.
Now in the US media outlets, there's been a lot of reporting of this 911 call that was made from his property on that day.
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