text:  And so US authorities were in a real bind because they had large numbers of Venezuelans showing up at the southern border. The enforcement-minded agenda was to apprehend them and deport them, but they couldn't deport them. So there's all kinds of international cooperation that's out of public view that dictates how the US prosecutes its immigration agenda at the border. And this goes back to why I think it's so important for media conversations to take into account these broader issues.