Rebecca Jackson

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The Intelligence from The Economist · The 250-year experiment: America’s birthday · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

That is quite scary.

But Robert, isn't that quite scary to compare America to Russia and China?

Immigration enforcement looks very different in the South.

In Republican states, local police and jails are very willing to cooperate with the federal government.

Most immigration arrests actually happen in cities in red states.

So places like Miami and Houston are picking up way more people than Minnesota, San Francisco, Boston.

So you haven't seen the kinds of clashes that Daniel's describing.

Generally I'd say things have been

Much quieter.

And that in itself is causing problems here too.

Back in March, Robert and I took a trip to the southern border in Texas.

And we were talking to lots of Latinos there who basically are horrified by the Trump administration's immigration enforcement, the fact that they're picking up grannies rather than the rapists that they promised to.

And that is really changing the politics in the region.

We talk to a lot of people in the construction business and people.

People who were ardent Republicans who basically were saying that the extent to which Trump was making it impossible to run their businesses because they were just coming to construction sites and picking people up meant that their politics were changing.

These were people who are actually considering voting for Democrats or just sitting out the election come November.

I think also when thinking about potential policies going forward, I think it's important to recognize that the political overton window has just shifted so dramatically.

This week I'm reporting on anti-Muslim sentiment that's coming out of Texas and being nationalized.

And one of the things that struck me most is that in this conversation, which I think is born out of the Christian nationalist movement, there's this question of who is really American and who deserves to be American.

And part of that is that.

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