Central Americans faced with violence, murder, extortion, gangs, and a breakdown of the rule of law are coming to the US to seek asylum—only to find chaos and squalor and on this side of the border. We talk to Allegra Love, Santa Fe attorney and executive director of the Santa Fe Dreamers Project, about the realities facing refugees and the politics surrounding them.
Border issue groups mentioned in the podcast:
Santa Fe Dreamers Project
Las Americas
Al Otro Lado
Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid