About 15 immigrants — including women and children as young as 3 years old — are camping out on a Rio Grande bridge that connects Matamoros, Mexico, with Brownsville, Texas. Reporter Neena Satija with the Texas Tribune and Reveal tells host Marco Werman that US federal agents are preventing the would-be asylum-seekers from crossing.
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