The Biden administration is very publicly reversing some Trump-era immigration policies but is swiftly expelling hundreds of migrants along the Southwest border to Mexico every day, many of them asylum-seekers. In Mexico, authorities are doing the same — to Guatemala. Host Marco Werman speaks with The World’s Jorge Valencia, who reports from the rural border outpost of El Ceibo on the Mexico-Guatemala line.
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