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'Remain In Mexico' Inconsistencies Push Migrants To Arizona Border Crossings

It wasn’t too long ago that Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan announced that all families seeking asylum in the U.S. would be either deported quickly or sent to the Mexican side of the border to wait it out as their cases are resolved.

That so-called “Remain in Mexico” policy isn’t playing out quite the same way in Arizona, as our next guest, Wall Street Journal immigration reporter Alicia Caldwell, reports.

The Show spoke with her more about it.

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Lauren Gilger, host of KJZZ's The Show, is an award-winning journalist whose work has impacted communities large and small, exposing injustices and giving a voice to the voiceless and marginalized.