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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Mexico Fuels the Humanitarian Crisis on the Border

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate

News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

To understand what’s happening on the border, you have to look at the policies and leaders on both sides of it. So, how has Mexico, under its new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, changed its approach to refugees and migrants fleeing north? And how has the Mexican president changed, himself? Guest: León Krauze, columnist for Slate, co-host of Trumpcast, and news anchor for Univision. Tell us what you think by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sending an email to [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram for updates on the show. Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

When I see a report about immigration these days, I keep hearing this phrase, breaking point.

0:10.3

Meanwhile, the southern border is already at a breaking point you have heard.

0:14.9

And they said the agency has, quote, arrived at the breaking point.

0:17.3

We have a port that is stretched to a breaking point.

0:21.8

Sometimes, this idea, this breaking point, it's illustrated by these terrible images,

0:28.0

pictures of detained families, kept behind some fencing, under a bridge in Alpasso, Texas.

0:34.3

But it turns out, this breaking point, it looks remarkably similar on both sides of the border.

0:41.0

Well, I visited Di Juana when the caravan crisis exploded and what I found was tragic.

0:52.2

Lan Krause writes for slate, hosts Trumpcast, and he grew up in Mexico.

0:56.9

People were gathered at this sports complex just a few feet from the border.

1:01.6

Within a small baseball field, that just a couple of weeks before was being used for a little league baseball.

1:09.0

León chatsen video on his cell phone while he was in Tijuana.

1:12.3

Tent after tent, some of them plopped down in the middle of a playground.

1:16.9

Hello friends, I'm in the Ced de la Caravana Migrante in Tijuana.

1:23.4

There were probably 5,000 people gathered.

1:26.9

They were using portable toilets lining the outfield fence with makeshift showers.

1:33.3

The stench was unbearable.

1:34.7

People were sleeping under makeshift tents.

1:38.9

The people in Tijuana have moved to a slightly larger place indoors,

1:43.7

but they still are living in very difficult conditions.

1:48.5

That's the reality of it.

1:50.6

León looks at our immigration debate from a very specific perspective, a Mexican perspective.

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