Immigration update: the migrant caravan, DACA, and ICE crackdowns

Air Date: April 9, 2018

In this April 4, 2018 photo, the Zelaya siblings, from El Salvador, Nayeli, right, Anderson, center, and Daniela, huddle together on a soccer field, at the sports club where Central American migrants traveling with the annual "Stations of the Cross" caravan are camped out, in Matias Romero, Oaxaca State, Mexico. The children's father Elmer Zelaya, 38, said the family is awaiting temporary transit visas that would allow them to continue to the U.S. border, where they hope to request asylum and join relatives in New York.(AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Guests: Delphine Schrank, Maria Sacchetti

We check in on the caravan of Central American migrants that was journeying through Mexico towards the American border last week. President Trump drew attention to the group, calling them a national security threat and said he would send National Guard troops to secure the U.S./Mexico border. We’ll talk with Reuters’ chief correspondent for Mexico and Central America, DELPHINE SCHRANK, who spent a week traveling with the caravan, and with MARIA SACCHETTI, immigration reporter for The Washington Post about the about the migrants, U.S./Mexico relations, DACA and recent ICE crackdowns.

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