Ryan Grim

Yeah, it became a political issue.

So I was a case manager.

And so basically, like my job is once like these kids were released to sponsors, you have to check on them, make sure that they track their immigration hearings, get like pro bono attorneys, you know, have a roof over their head, stuff like that.

And, you know, this piece took me a really long time to write.

It was really hard to write.

It's a very delicate issue.

And I wanted like people from both sides of the aisle to take like the right things out of it.

And that New York Times piece you mentioned, I can thankfully say that during my time, there was only one case that I cited in the piece of a minor who just ran away and couldn't find him.

This is South Florida.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's another thing.

I worked in South Florida, the Miami office of this agency.

So the Cubans, Venezuelans.

Yeah, yeah.

South Americans, et cetera.

And, well, you know, the thing about one of the main things for on left of center that I wanted people to take out of the piece is that, you know, there's this idea typically that it's like, oh, you know, if you come here to arrive at the border, like, you know, you must be really desperate.

You're fleeing violence, stuff like that.

That is the case.

But in my experience, and this is also reporting that has been done, the vast majority of these asylum claims are economic migrants.

During the Biden term.