2026-09-03
23 分钟The Economist
Hello, and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Rosie Blau.
And I'm Jason Palmer.
Today on the show, has Reddit had it in the age of AI?
And the Bayeux Tapestry conquers Britain.
First up, though,
Donald Trump has been talking about how he'd deal with illegal immigrants
since long before he was elected for a second term.
"The Republican platform promises to launch the largest deportation operation in the history of our country."
And he certainly followed through on that promise.
"You're arresting, he's a true American hero!"
"Off the street!"
"Back it up!"
Openly on the streets of Minneapolis, Chicago, and elsewhere, and in recent months, much more quietly.
But is a policy that helped elect Trump as president now taking a political toll?
Barack Obama, a Democrat, was known as a deporter-in-chief.
He removed something like 430,000 people in 2013.
Aryn Braun is our West Coast correspondent.
And he did that by focusing on recent border crossers and people in jails and prisons.