Sane asylum
Kerri Kennedy and the Philly-based American Friends Service Committee recently went to Mexico to talk to members of the migrant caravan. Here's what she learned.
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A migrant child sits outside a tent, taking shelter at the Jesus Martinez stadium in Mexico City, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Humanitarian aid converged around the stadium in Mexico City where thousands of Central American migrants winding their way toward the United States were resting Tuesday after an arduous trek that has taken them through three countries in three weeks. (Marco Ugarte/AP Photo)
The American Friends Service Committee, based in Philadelphia, recently sent a small delegation to Mexico to talk to people in the migrant caravan headed north toward the U.S. border, where some local residents in Tijuana are protesting their arrival. On this episode of The Why, the AFSC’s Associate General Secretary for International Programs Kerri Kennedy tells us what she and her colleagues saw there.
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