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2023.

This week, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkos, and FBI Director Christopher

Ray testified in front of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on threats to the homeland.

Senators Pepper Myorkus and Ray with questions about the southern border, fentanyl trafficking, increases in migrant crossings, and more.

For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from June 26, 2018, in which Benjamin

Wittis sat down with Stephanie Loyder to discuss how developments along Mexico's southern border affect the United States.

Who's entering Mexico? Why they're doing it? Why most continue on to the United States and where the dangers lie along their journeys.

I'm Matthew Khan and you're listening to the Law Fair Podcast June 26, 2018. With the media and political commentators focused on family separation at the

U.S. Mexico border, few are paying attention to how developments along Mexico's southern border affect the United States.

Enter Stephanie Loyder, director of the Mexico Security Initiative at the University of Texas

at Austin, who has spent the past several weeks in the field

studying the flow of migrants from Central America into Mexico.

On Monday afternoon, she got on the phone with Benjamin Wittis to talk about who's entering

Mexico, why they're doing it, why most continue on to the United States and where

the danger lies along their journeys.

It's the Law Fair Podcast, episode 324,

Stephanie Loyder on the other southern border.

So Steph, I don't usually start a conversation for a podcast with this question, but I'm going to this time.

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