The History Behind the Border Crisis

A border patrol agent watches the international border between the U.S. and Sonora, Mexico Friday, April 28, 2006, in Nogales, Ariz.

Michelle García, journalist and writer, and Monica Muñoz Martinez, Stanley J. Bernstein assistant professor of American Studies & Ethnic Studies at Brown University and author of the forthcoming book, The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas  (Harvard University Press, September, 2018), discuss the history behind the current crisis at the border.