Immigration FEMA

Immigration FEMA

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Migrant Surge, Women in Economics, Nowruz

Episode: Migrant Surge, Women in Economics, Nowruz

  • Mar 22, 2021 8:00 pm
  • 16:32 mins

The current surge of migrants arriving at the US/Mexico appears on-track to be the largest in 20 years. One in ten of the migrants is a child or teenager arriving without a parent. President Biden has deployed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the border to help house and care for these unaccompanied minors. Theresa Cardinal Brown is Managing Director of Immigration and Cross-border Policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center and worked as a policy adviser in the Department of Homeland Security during the George W. Bush and Obama administrations. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)