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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Mexico’s About-Face on Immigration

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate

News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

How has Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador changed his country’s approach to migrants heading north? Guest: León Krauze, Slate columnist, Trumpcast co-host, and Univision news anchor. This episode originally aired in April 2019. Podcast production by Mary Wilson and Jayson De Leon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, this is Henry Grabar.

0:02.7

What next is on vacation and they asked me to pick a favorite episode for an encore.

0:07.8

I like this one, which is from April.

0:10.3

Features Leon Krautsa talking about Mexico's immigration policy and how it affects what

0:15.7

happens on our southern border.

0:18.2

Here's the show.

0:21.2

Whenever I see a report about immigration these days, I keep hearing this phrase, breaking

0:28.8

point.

0:29.8

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

0:33.8

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

0:36.5

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

0:41.3

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

0:47.3

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

0:53.6

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

0:58.2

border.

0:59.2

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

1:11.6

Leon Krautsa writes for slate, hosts Trumpcast, and he grew up in Mexico.

1:16.4

People were gathered at this sports complex just a few feet from the border, within a small

1:21.9

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

1:28.3

Leon shots some video on his cell phone while he was in Tijuana.

1:31.8

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

1:35.8

Hola amigos, estoy en la sede de la caravana migrant en Tijuana, en el deporte.

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