Mexico’s About-Face on Immigration
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2019
⏱️ 16 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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Henry Grabar. What Next is on vacation, and they asked me to pick a favorite episode for an encore. I like this one, which is from April, features Leon Kraza talking about Mexico's immigration policy and how it affects what happens on our southern border. Here's the show. |
| 0:23.7 | Whenever I see a report about immigration these days, I keep hearing this phrase, |
| 0:28.5 | breaking point. |
| 0:30.2 | Meanwhile, the southern border is already at a breaking point. You have heard. |
| 0:34.0 | And they said the agency has, quote, arrived at the breaking point. |
| 0:36.4 | We have a port that is stretched to a breaking point. Sometimes this idea, this breaking point, it's illustrated by |
| 0:45.4 | these terrible images, pictures of detained families kept behind some fencing under a bridge in El Paso, Texas. |
| 0:53.5 | But it turns out this breaking point, it looks remarkably |
| 0:56.7 | similar on both sides of the border. |
| 0:58.6 | Well, I visited Tijuana when the caravan crisis exploded, and what I found was tragic. |
| 1:11.4 | Leanne Krauseau writes for Slate, hosts Trumpcast, and he grew up in Mexico. |
| 1:16.1 | People were gathered at this sports complex, just a few feet from the border, |
| 1:20.9 | within a small baseball field that just a couple of weeks before was being used for Little League baseball. |
| 1:28.3 | Leon shot some video on his cell phone while he was in Tijuana. |
| 1:31.3 | Tent after tent, some of them plop down in the middle of a playground. |
| 1:35.3 | Hello, myos, I'm in the Cede of the Caravan Migranti in Tijuana. |
| 1:42.3 | There were probably 5,000 people gathered. |
| 1:46.2 | They were using portable toilets lining the outfield fence with makeshift showers. |
| 1:52.6 | The stench was unbearable. |
| 1:54.1 | People were sleeping under makeshift tents. |
| 1:58.4 | People in Tijuana have moved to a slightly larger place, indoors, but they still are living |
| 2:05.3 | in very difficult conditions. That's the reality of it. |
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