On June 18, 2018, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen held a briefing largely focused on the Trump administration's treatment of families seeking asylum at the southwestern border of the U.S. On June 19, I spoke with Sarah Pierce, Policy Analyst for the U.S. Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute (https://www.migrationpolicy.org/). We discussed the predominant home countries of those who have been recently apprehended at the southwestern border of the U.S., a bit about data cited by the Nielsen, and quite a bit more about what would happen if legislation proposed in the U.S. House were to become law.
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Sarah Pierce Bio (https://www.migrationpolicy.org/about/staff/sarah-pierce)
Migration Policy Institute report (by Jessica Bolter & Sarah Pierce) on the two House bills (https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/house-bills-would-largely-dismantle-asylum-system-us-mexico-border)
(Cover art photo credit: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, The White House, & U.S. Congress) Special Guest: Sarah Pierce.
