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  • Affairs
  • Episode 611
  • 37 min

Does the immigration debate have to be like this?

BRAINTREE, ENGLAND - AUGUST 30: Protesters gather in the Market Square to demonstrate with signs and flags against asylum-seekers at nearby Wethersfield, one holding a sign saying ' Mass Immigration is Drowning English People' on August 30, 2025 in Braintree, United Kingdom. Protesters gathered in opposition to the asylum-seeker accommodation at former RAF base at Wethersfield. The base houses about 800 single adult males which have been located there sinceJuly 2023. (Photo by Martin Pope/Getty Images)

  • The Foreign Desk
  • Affairs
  • Episode 611
  • 37 min

As the right engages in fearmongering and the left struggles with coherent messaging, can immigration be reformed? Is shutting the door effective? And how does anyone win against those who want to shut it?

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