How deaths of more than 50 migrants near San Antonio could impact immigration reform
Download mp3 (11.1 MB)After more than 50 migrants were found dead inside a tractor trailer in San Antonio last week, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois said, “I think what happened at the border with finding 51 dead migrants in that tractor trailer is what I would call a ‘Uvalde moment.’ I hope it sparks an interest in finding a bipartisan approach to dealing with immigration.”
The "Uvalde moment" he was referring to was the mass shooting at an elementary school in that Texas town, which led to a bipartisan compromise on gun legislation.
To find out if it’d be possible for senators to also agree on some kind of immigration and border security measure, The Show spoke with Doris Meissner, senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute and director of the U.S. immigration policy program there.
