This is the Mother Jones Podcast.

I'm Jamila King in New York.

On today's show,

on today's show, caught in limbo at the border.

This week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

announced that the whole system is buckling

under the weight of record numbers of migrants coming into the US.

Facilities at capacity, not enough Border Patrol agents, and President Trump's policies

designed to deter migrants have only added to the chaos.

You'll go inside a Tijuana shelter for migrant teenagers on the Mexico side of the southern border.

Also on the show, we also have begun receiving death threats.

How one migrant aid group is facing increased threats

and intimidation at a time when fear of migrants has been fully weaponized.

This is absolutely a creature of this administration.

This is the crisis you don't hear about at the border and surprise it bears no

resemblance to what Trump's been talking about. This idea that there's a crisis of

people like breaking down walls and climbing over razor wire and

everyone just like blocking the ports of entry. That's not happening.

Stick around. Forget the hype, rhetoric, forget the political division.

We set Mother Jones immigration reporter

Fernando Echaburi to Tijuana

to give us an inside look

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