Democracy Now, October 13, 2015
As
immigration has become a key issue on the campaign trail, we look at a
startling new report that finds "the United States has outsourced a
refugee problem to Mexico that is similar to the refugee crisis now
roiling Europe." In her New York Times opinion piece, "The Refugees at
Our Door," Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sonia Nazario describes how
the Obama administration is paying the Mexican government to keep
people from reaching the U.S. border—people who often have legitimate
asylum claims. We speak to Nazario about the harrowing stories she heard
from Central American refugees in shelters in southern Mexico.
