Texas Tribune reporter Jay Root joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the physical and financial risks of asylum seekers putting their family’s life in the hands of smugglers.
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When Running Drugs Is Your Only Option
Ryan Goldberg joins us to talk about how the Tarahumara people of Northern Mexico are used by cartels to run drugs across the border.
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The Wolf Boys
This hour, we’ll talk about how a Mexican drug cartel turned a boy into a feared assassin – and about what such transformations say about the perilous prospect of growing up on the border – with Dan Slater.
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How Honduras Got Safer
This hour, we’ll talk about how Honduras’ homicide rate has steadily declined in the last few years thanks to programs funded by the United States with Sonia Nazario. Her story “How the Most Dangerous Place on Earth Got Safer” appeared recently in The New York Times.
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